[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

Stuart Langridge sil at kryogenix.org
Tue Jul 13 00:17:14 BST 2004


Matthew Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:56:48 +0100, Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> 
>>sparkes wrote:
>>
>>>go to a website that looks up names in the whois database to see if they
>>>are free  123reg.co.uk is about as cheap as they come so enter the name
>>>on there and they will tell you if it's available and won't charge a lot
>>>for it.
>>
>>Do Not Do This.
>>
>>You have a Linux box. Use "whois whatever.co.uk" from the command line.
>>Typing it into a website to do it is dangerous; some of them will assume
>>from your search that you're looking to register that domain and will
>>then register it *themselves* so they can charge you fifty quid for it
>>rather than about a tenner.
> 
> Woah, there. Not used to such paranoia from one such as yourself. Yes,
> such arseholes do exist but in the extreme minority and 123-reg are a
> straight, honest registration company, owned by Pipex. I could, of
> course, recommend UKreg, for whom I work :)

True enough. Yep, I'm paranoid. However, these websites are just shells 
around the whois command, and on a Linux box we *have* whois as a stock 
command. Websites that run simple unix commands and bang a web front end 
around them are for Windows people :)

sil






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