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My goodness. So someone tell me, which registrar then actually has sensible terms & policies?
NearlyFreeSpeech.net Though they only offer .org, .net, and .com and I believe the main form of payment is through paypal.
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My goodness. So someone tell me, which registrar then actually has sensible terms & policies?
NearlyFreeSpeech.net Though they only offer .org, .net, and .com and I believe the main form of payment is through paypal.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms#termination
Nearly every provider has such a clause (including Nearlyfreespeech, Namecheap, and Gandi). I'd rather judge based on actions than on legalese.
On a related note, does anybody here use Gandi's VPS services? The pricing seems interesting but I don't know how reliable they are.
After that I switched to slicehost who's equivalent VM performs even better however I don't think you can sign up for that anymore now they've been assimilated by Rackspace.
Didn't have any unscheduled downtime over 6 months on Gandi.
I am a huge fan of Gandi. Yes, they are slightly more expensive than other services, but I find their user interface not just good, but really quite amazing. One simple but obvious feature they have is the ability to create DNS presets and apply those for new domains, it's really useful. (other people probably offer this) Gandi also has fantastic support; it is slightly sad that they do not have a telephone number, b…
The username thing is indeed very annoying though.
Gandi.net has revocation polices similar to GoDaddy where they can impose their own morality at revoking your domain.
Here is the relevant text for NameCheap:
Namecheap may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used, as determined by Namecheap in its sole discretion, in association with spam or morally objectionable activities.
Morally objectionable activities will include, but not be limited to 1) activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third parties; 2) activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which you conduct business; 3) activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography; 4) activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party; 5) and activities designed to harm or use unethically minors in any way.
I like gandi.net, but struggled and failed to justify using them for domains at work. The third word on their site is an expletive. This made it too difficult to justify in a Powerpoint presentation.
Few days I tried to move my GoDaddy domain to Gandi.net, and GoDaddy denied my request because apparently the domain is registered privately. Why should I expose my name just to transfer?
You should have asked yourself that question before you registered at Godaddy. If you do not want your name to be associated with your domain, you are now locked in forever. To be honest, I don't even know if other registrars do it any different. (I only know that Nearlyfreespeech.net does not lock you in that way, but not about others like namecheap.) Gandi.net does not offer full whois privacy by the way, so your n…
Few days I tried to move my GoDaddy domain to Gandi.net, and GoDaddy denied my request because apparently the domain is registered privately. Why should I expose my name just to transfer?
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NearlyFreeSpeech.net Though they only offer .org, .net, and .com and I believe the main form of payment is through paypal.
> NearlyFreeSpeech.NET reserves the right at any time and for any reason, including but not limited to your violation of these TACOS, to limit, suspend, or terminate your use of the Services and to discard any of your Content. Such termination of your use of the Services may be performed without prior notice, and NearlyFreeSpeech.NET may immediately deactivate or delete your Content and all related files relating to…
You're right in wanting to judge by actions rather than some CYA phrasing in a terms & conditions. NFS has a track record of backing up that free speech mission with action. And then there's Dynadot, who continue to host the wikileaks.org domain, and the DNS after EasyDNS dropped them. If Gandi has a similar track record, I'd love to hear it.