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Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by ip2k »

nathanhammond wrote: post #38
sparky wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One thing I'm not willing to do is set up a wildcard A record Why not? I'm being earnest here, I'm a name.com customer and I do have such a wildcard record. Are you building a network service that relies on nonexistent subdomains being resolved at the DNS level (rather than a 404 page or a redirect to a subdomain that does exist)? Or is it more of a philosophical thing?

1. I don't want to provide multiple entry points. As an intentionally vulgar example, http://f***you.example.com would resolve if using a wildcard address. That is unacceptable. 2. I'm in the process of setting up a self-assembling system that will need to be environment aware (public, staging, dev). If I redirect everything to a single A record I actually have to perform logic on my end. A failed request will instea…

http://f***you.example.com would resolve if using a wildcard address. That is unacceptable.

Bro, just stop, you don't understand DNS. Lots of people use wildcards.

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by scythe »

The best domain registrar of which I'm aware -- everyone I know who's used it has been happy with it -- is http://nearlyfreespeech.net/. I've also used DynDNS and been very happy with them; someone else mentioned them as well.

NFS doesn't make it obvious that they do domain registration -- you have to click through to "services" to see it.

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by dustingetz »

ip2k wrote: post #69
nathanhammond wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have nothing bad to say about their support, and I hopefully made that clear in my original post. That doesn't, however, relieve them of their responsibility in my opinion to provide good services. The problem I have is that it wasn't immediately apparent that I was serving ads on my domain because they weren't respecting the way in which DNS is supposed to work--basically typo-squatting me.

Disclaimer: I work for a web hosting company. They are NOT affiliated in any way with name.com The problem is that you don't understand how domain parking works. If you want to just own a domain but don't want it to go anywhere yet, you need to make records for that. "Domain parking" is the shady practice of putting up a "palceholder" page filled with ads. Also...you don't know what "NXDOMAIN" is / means. Here are th…

i'm confused. I use name.com free DNS. I didn't park anything and thought I was doing everything right.

  dustingetz.com
  www.dustingetz.com
  adsfkjhasfasdf.dustingetz.com
I expected it to time out. Name.com shows no * record, but cloudflare showed me this (I think it rotates through a few IPs). I guess I'd have to move off the free DNS to remove the * record.

  A record *	points to	174.37.172.68

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by bigiain »

ip2k wrote: post #69
nathanhammond wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have nothing bad to say about their support, and I hopefully made that clear in my original post. That doesn't, however, relieve them of their responsibility in my opinion to provide good services. The problem I have is that it wasn't immediately apparent that I was serving ads on my domain because they weren't respecting the way in which DNS is supposed to work--basically typo-squatting me.

Disclaimer: I work for a web hosting company. They are NOT affiliated in any way with name.com The problem is that you don't understand how domain parking works. If you want to just own a domain but don't want it to go anywhere yet, you need to make records for that. "Domain parking" is the shady practice of putting up a "palceholder" page filled with ads. Also...you don't know what "NXDOMAIN" is / means. Here are th…

From the article

"at a non-existent subdomain of Typewire's site"

Surely a non-existent subdomain should return a Name Error?

Unless you explicitly asked for a wildcard subdomain (which I realize the T&Cs _say_ you did, even though you never intended too), then I'd expect ww.realdomain.com and qqq.realdomain.com to return NXDOMAIN.

(and I agree with the post, adding a wildcard domain and putting ads on the parked pages is nasty, insisting it's a core part of your business model when called on it is evil, trying to then claim I'm somehow responsible for the ad content on this pages is beyond stupid! I'd certainly never use a registrar that chose to do that to me.)

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by foxylad »

Undergrads wrote: post #22

Have you tried Namecheap? I register all of my domains with them and they've always exceeded my expectations.

I too am a GoDaddy refugee at Namecheap. Very happy so far - responsive support, half decent interface and no upselling.

But you do wonder about the name... given they're a domain name company you'd think they'd have a better one.

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by sandGorgon »

derefr wrote: post #68
humblest_ever wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I found if you have an A * record to an ip you control, and a plain X.TLD record it covers everything. This policy is infuriating to say the least. I have sent them several emails about it and gotten various, "we don't care," responses. It's very hard for me to describe how enraged I was when I found out, even after finding a solution on my own. If I could find a registrar that didn't treat me like crap I wo…

> If I could find a registrar that didn't treat me like crap I would switch instantly. Namecheap has been excellent for the domains I've bought through it. I haven't yet had to talk to their customer service, but their management interface is simple and flexible enough that I haven't had to.

I have used Namecheap's customer service (my fault entirely) and it has been super excellent. They usually have a turnaround time of a few hours and are 24X7.

They also have a forum where you can request for specific features - a couple of months back I posted requesting for account management pages to be made HTTPS.. and now they are. Dunno if the post made a difference.

However, their branding is stupid: I cant get my clients to register their domains on anything called "cheap" - especially corporate ones. I suggest gandi.net in that case.

Re: Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

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Post by ohashi »

AlexC04 wrote: post #61
ohashi wrote: post #34

For those of you looking for a good registrar. My hands down favorite is Fabulous.com right now. Caveat is they cater to large portfolios and certain extensions (com/net/org/info). They don't screw you over on anything though. Even if your names expire and someone buys it through drop process, you get a cut of the sale. They don't keep any domains for themselves. Prices (for portfolio holders, retail side is as expen…

Fabulous requires that your portfolio either makes $750 a month (with their parking services) or have at least 750 domains with them. I have a personal goal of one day consolidating my domains with at Fabulous :) I'm getting there. In the short term I have my own private label registrar through Directi that isn't to shabby. I think I'm paying around $8.50 USD per domain, with privacy included. Bulk management is a bi…

If you've got a few hundred I may be able to help you out in getting an account. Contact me from my profile.
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