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Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by sparkinson »

jervisfm wrote: post #61
nbpoole wrote: post #13

Some previous discussion on this issue (almost 2 years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443710 I'll say the same thing I said then: As an anecdotal counterpoint, I'm an extremely happy Name.com customer. I transfered several domains to them a year or so ago from GoDaddy. They support two-factor authentication, their interface is uncluttered, I pay them less money than I paid GoDaddy, and I haven't had a sin…

May I ask where do you do your DNS hosting ? Do you host it yourself ? Or do you use a third party ?

Check out CloudFlare, they provide some great DNS services with some added bonuses.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by belorn »

1337p337 wrote: post #78
nbpoole wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hosting companies I've used (eg: Linode, Dreamhost for smaller projects) all provide DNS services. I trust them to manage a DNS infrastructure more than I trust myself.

I don't quite understand why people have this allergy to running their own DNS. If you just want a single text file and don't need anything major, dnsmasq will serve records out of /etc/hosts. Slightly up the chain in terms of power, MaraDNS lets you use a text file, and finally there's PowerDNS (which I use) lets you use SQL databases, embed Lua, or read from a pipe. (Being able to use a regular RDBMS is nice for th…

A bit surprised not to see Bind mentioned here, as it's a kind of an industry standard.

Personally, I got Bind installed on all my machines, both for DNS zones and resolving. The only exception is my phone, and that is only because I couldn't find a package for it.

For those that do not want to deal with config files, there is also GUIs like gadmin-bind.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by WickyNilliams »

zx2c4 wrote: post #50

I'm in the process of switching to gandi.net. It's not as cheap as name.com (3 dollars difference...), but their DNS service seems really topnotch. Also, they're open to acting as a secondary DNS server and mirroring my own NS via AXFR, which is pretty nice.

I'm using gandi, as you say prices are a bit more expensive but I have had no problems so far. Their admin UI is even bearable, which is almost worth the cost alone!

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by moondowner »

EduardoBautista wrote: post #80
javajosh wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, the best workaround is namecheap.com

I don't like being with resellers.

What do you think of http://en.gandi.net/ guys? I'm on name.com as well but this thing is really bugging me.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by nicholassmith »

moondowner wrote: post #84
EduardoBautista wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like being with resellers.

What do you think of http://en.gandi.net/ guys? I'm on name.com as well but this thing is really bugging me.

I'm with gandi, there's a few things I don't like but overall they've been super stable with very little headaches. I think in the 3+ years I've been with them I've had one slight issue that was dealt with in <24 hours.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by autotravis »

xpose2000 wrote: post #86

I contacted Name over twitter and their response was sarcastic and they don't seem to care. https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/307523296910532608

There's a time for humor and there is a time for a serious response. This is the latter and I find myself regretting my move to name.com.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by jstanley »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #36
jstanley wrote: post #2

It's really not that hard to run your own nameserver. While I obviously disagree with what they're doing, I think you should have been running your own in the first place.

Easy but for single-server setups also silly. If your server falls off of the net your DNS goes boom too and you have no shot of redirecting people to a landing page or similar "oh shit" activities. Now you could re-point your nameserver records but in my experience that takes longer to propagate than a new A record with a short TTL.

I take the opposite viewpoint: if the machine is down, I wouldn't be able get to the machine anyway even if DNS was working, so I don't care.

Re: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their servers

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Post by 1337p337 »

belorn wrote: post #82
1337p337 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't quite understand why people have this allergy to running their own DNS. If you just want a single text file and don't need anything major, dnsmasq will serve records out of /etc/hosts. Slightly up the chain in terms of power, MaraDNS lets you use a text file, and finally there's PowerDNS (which I use) lets you use SQL databases, embed Lua, or read from a pipe. (Being able to use a regular RDBMS is nice for th…

A bit surprised not to see Bind mentioned here, as it's a kind of an industry standard. Personally, I got Bind installed on all my machines, both for DNS zones and resolving. The only exception is my phone, and that is only because I couldn't find a package for it. For those that do not want to deal with config files, there is also GUIs like gadmin-bind.

Sorry for the omission; I think Bind is actually a bit tricky to configure by comparison to the other three mentioned.
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