This sorta reminds me of when Regions Bank forgot to renew its domain name.. for everything a smart business can do to acquire customers, developing groundbreaking software, etc - sometimes the things that break are the most obvious and mundane..
https://www.billhartzer.com/pages/regions-bank-fails-to-rene...
How a domain registrar can kill your business
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Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always heard good things about gandi
I second this. I've been using gandi.net for a few years now and have had nothing but good experiences with them.
Thirding Gandi. Their web dashboard sucks but they are excellent when it comes to service, support and reliability.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#183If you can, just transfer your domains to Google Domains and never worry about shady registrars again. (We also use Dynadot [good], Hexonet [good], Uniregistry [... okay].)
I'm curious, what makes you say that Uniregistry is "...okay"?
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#184Pardon my ignorance, but this is something I've always wondered.
You can setup fail over DNS servers, just list different DNS servers, possibly from different companies, with your registrar.
Is the registrar a unavoidable single-point of failure? Your multiple name servers are listed with your one-and-only-one registrar, no matter what?
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm confused, how is it over-engineered?
This is the job of the registrar
Turns out, sometimes someone doesn't do their job, or someone ends up in the hospital, and sometimes weird things just happen.
There are lots of places where we may want redundancy to redund at us.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#186Back in the late 90's before it was Verisign (I can't recall the name), my domain registration could only be changed with an email from my domain. Of course I didn't have my domain up since I switched ISP and had to move my DNS and mail server. Catch 22; what a cluster fuck. Weeks of phone calls with no resolutions. I was going to Virginia anyway, so I physically showed up at Verisign (I wanted to bring a baseball ba…
> before it was Verisign (I can't recall the name) NetworkSolutions.com > so I physically showed up at Verisign (I wanted to bring a baseball bat) Did you think to write a simple postal letter to them (say a VP or the CEO) rather than get angry enough to show up with a bat? Or send Fedex? Sure you shouldn't have to do that but from a practical angle it may have paid to do that.
Did I say I showed up with a bat? Yes, I did send mail.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#187Back in the late 90's before it was Verisign (I can't recall the name), my domain registration could only be changed with an email from my domain. Of course I didn't have my domain up since I switched ISP and had to move my DNS and mail server. Catch 22; what a cluster fuck. Weeks of phone calls with no resolutions. I was going to Virginia anyway, so I physically showed up at Verisign (I wanted to bring a baseball ba…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
Exactly. One of my favorite movies.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#188Back in the late 90's before it was Verisign (I can't recall the name), my domain registration could only be changed with an email from my domain. Of course I didn't have my domain up since I switched ISP and had to move my DNS and mail server. Catch 22; what a cluster fuck. Weeks of phone calls with no resolutions. I was going to Virginia anyway, so I physically showed up at Verisign (I wanted to bring a baseball ba…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
With that advertisement for Spider Man, that's the last time I ever click an IMDB link.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally found a period of 1-2 year to be the absolute worst. On the next cycle the man is gone because it's past the average tenure. The emails about it were lost or auto deleted. Any documentation or process is useless because the company or the supplier has changed. To have a process be remembered, make it monthly or quarterly.
How can you make domain renewals be monthly or quarterly?
The monthly process isn't necessarily to renew domains - it is to assess the situation to see if there are any that need renewing soon. Many months nothing will need doing, a couple of months per year something will need action.
Even as a small company we have a number of regular infrastructure reviews. Most of the time we just go through the review, find nothing has changed unexpectedly and no new ideas need bringing to the table, we sign off to say all looks well, and the prices takes very little time. Some of this is automated: scripts collate and report information for signoff and we humans verify the result and take actions as needed (in some cases the action needed is to update the script(s)). This may seem wasteful, but a couple of people spending a couple of hours total per month on such checks can save some nasty surprises in future.
Domain status checks is one of the things that gets reviewed.
Re: How a domain registrar can kill your business
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is no guarantee. GoDaddy and Google Domains, in particular, have demonstrated willingness to throw you into clientHold hell for political reasons, even for "tried and true TLDs".
I remember last year how Google, GoDaddy and CloudFlair all threw this one website under the bus: https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-... The Internet isn't as free as people think it is. Things still need to be hosts and those providers could simply chose to stop hosting you.
>The Daily Stormer, a website with highly controversial hate speech, was recently scrubbed from the Internet.
>A store cannot have blacks only and whites only bathrooms or water fountains.
It's amazing how someone can unironically defend the plight of a website that they admit produces "highly controversial hate speech" by comparing it indirectly to none other than racial segregation.