Hello All, Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input. ~Jeff
$9.88 for commercial domains seems under the average from what I've seen from other registrars On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com , networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
cheap, secure, reliable pick two. --jim On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
so who would you quantify as secure and reliable? who does not require additional "services" besides registration or spend all their time trying to upsell you? james On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
cheap, secure, reliable
pick two.
--jim
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:43:50AM -0700, james machado wrote:
so who would you quantify as secure and reliable? who does not require additional "services" besides registration or spend all their time trying to upsell you?
i'm good with easydns.com --jim
james
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
cheap, secure, reliable
pick two.
--jim
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
EasyDNS has gone beyond the normal registrar dilligence and has resisted bogus takedowns and other things, where many would just bend over backwards. They can do this a bit more easily by being in Canada as well: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160606/10541834640/riaa-demands-takedown... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150107/17585829627/easydns-sued-refusing... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131127/02062025385/easydns-continues-to-... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150623/17321931439/icanns-war-whois-priv... Mark Jeftovic, owner is a great guy who's one of the old school netheads (cut my teeth with him as co admins under an ISP owned by Osama Arafat who went on to found Q9). Recommended. /kc On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 02:46:43PM -0400, Jim Mercer said:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:43:50AM -0700, james machado wrote:
so who would you quantify as secure and reliable? who does not require additional "services" besides registration or spend all their time trying to upsell you?
i'm good with easydns.com
--jim
james
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
cheap, secure, reliable
pick two.
--jim
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
-- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
-- Ken Chase - math@sizone.org Toronto Canada
There are still many registrars that don't support DNSSEC (possibly only for a subset of TLDs), and/or have an unusable or cumbersome interface for adding DNSSEC glue. Just another thing to watch out for...
On 21 Sep 2016, at 19:43, james machado <hvgeekwtrvl@gmail.com> wrote:
so who would you quantify as secure and reliable? who does not require additional "services" besides registration or spend all their time trying to upsell you?
james
I have always liked https://www.gandi.net/ - Mark
I got sucked into Network Solutions for years over a bunch of domains and procrastinated moving them - but they *BLOOOWWW* big time. Get away from them, you'll be glad you did. It's been a huge relief switching to gandi.net for me, but then I'm not using them for much beyond basic services, YMMV, etc. -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ishmael Rufus Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 9:17 AM To: Jeff Jones Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Domain renawals $9.88 for commercial domains seems under the average from what I've seen from other registrars On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com , networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:19:43 -0400, Jeff Jones said:
networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
cheap, secure, reliable - pick any two. (The driver here is "cheap" - the other two criteria can be almost anything, but to do them well will probably not be cheap. Alternately, you can have three criteria that are all done excellently - but that level of service won't come cheap)
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Jeff Jones wrote: Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I've had an excellent experience with NearlyFreeSpeech: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ They have a high level of technical clue, don't try to upsell me things I don't need or want (although they do offer services), and they've been very efficient/precise about handling support requests. ---rsk
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of the less expensive registrars no longer support glue records in any meaningful way. They all expect you to host DNS with them. So might want to check on that before buying the cheapest and hosting your own DNS. /rh On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com , networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
In article <CAFiN6rq1bOMpiU5WSO1RwtMp7DM8jVSgMg=DBMgJSZsrOeiMcw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of the less expensive registrars no longer support glue records in any meaningful way. They all expect you to host DNS with them. So might want to check on that before buying the cheapest and hosting your own DNS.
I resell Tucows, and glue records definitely work. You have to specifically export the ones you want, but when you do, it works. R's, John
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:52:29PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
In article <CAFiN6rq1bOMpiU5WSO1RwtMp7DM8jVSgMg=DBMgJSZsrOeiMcw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of the less expensive registrars no longer support glue records in any meaningful way. They all expect you to host DNS with them. So might want to check on that before buying the cheapest and hosting your own DNS.
I resell Tucows, and glue records definitely work. You have to specifically export the ones you want, but when you do, it works.
Me too.
R's, John
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On 09/21/2016 01:44 PM, Richard Holbo wrote:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of the less expensive registrars no longer support glue records in any meaningful way. They all expect you to host DNS with them. So might want to check on that before buying the cheapest and hosting your own DNS.
What do you think glue records are, and why do you think you need them? :) (Those are serious questions, btw) Doug
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 09/21/2016 01:44 PM, Richard Holbo wrote:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of What do you think glue records are, and why do you think you need them? :) (Those are serious questions, btw)
Glue records are also called "Host records", or Alternatively called: "Nameserver" records. These are A and AAAA records for your domain name which appear in the parent TLD zone, instead of the child zone. Host records also typically appear in WHOIS, for example: "$ whois ns5.yahoo.com" If you think your registrar does not support them, then you're probably having trouble with your registrar's user interface, and just don't have the right procedure, because the use of host records is quite essential and necessary for at least one domain to self-host DNS...... These records are non-authoritative and belong to the reply delegating nameservers for your domain to your servers, and you need to duplicate a copy of all your NS, A, AAAA records in your child zone, which must be identical to the parent's version of the records. For example, suppose your domain name is "Example.com" And you want your nameservers to be NS1.example.com, NS2.example.com, NS3.example.com. Because the nameservers exist in the same domain name which references them, the required DNS lookup graph is circular, and your DNS zone becomes an island! In order for clients to find your nameserver to figure out what NS1.example.com resolves to, it first needs to be able to find a nameserver for Example.com, which is NS1.example.com. This is what is circular without a Hint in the Additional section of the DNS reply from the parent nameserver. The glue record in the parent zone is used to tell the parent TLD server to include the IP address of your nameserver in the Additional Section of the DNS reply, so you can bootstrap DNS resolution for Example.com.
Doug -- -JH
In order for clients to find your nameserver to figure out what NS1.example.com resolves to, it first needs to be able to find a nameserver for Example.com, which is NS1.example.com.
This is what is circular without a Hint in the Additional section of the DNS reply from the parent nameserver.
That's true, but there's also cross-domain name servers. I have domains in .org with nameservers in .com. The org. registry won't publish the NS records if my registrar hasn't told the .com registry to push the name server records out to other TLDs. Those are two different kinds of glue, but in practice you need both. You could argue that .org doesn't need to publish cross-domain glue, and you would be right, but you still won't get your .org NS published if they don't have the glue. R's, John
Since the circular notion of why we need glue records has already been addressed, I won't hit that here... I would agree with "you're probably having trouble with your registrar's user interface". In doing some work for a company that had a number of domains registered at 1and1.com, they (1and1) have a webpage about how to setup glue records, talks about it, but it does not work, and when you call their support, (google has many descriptions of the same issue)... they say that the only way it works is if you host your DNS with them, which kinda defeats the purpose. Whether this is just bad UI, bad support, or they just don't think it's necessary for most of their business ... does not really matter, effectively they are telling the customer who needs that to go somewhere else. In that process (going somewhere else) I've discovered that some registrars make it pretty easy, some ignore it completely. As there are probably fairly few of us than actually need this functionality I think a lot of less expensive registrars, just ignore it. Just throwing this out there in response to OP as something to watch out for because if you need it... Netsol, and Hover make it easy, Godaddy is not intuitive but doable FYI, IMHO. (DISCLAIMER not a complete list just my current limited experience, not meant to denigrate any other registrar that's not mentioned, please no flames). /rh On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 09/21/2016 01:44 PM, Richard Holbo wrote:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of What do you think glue records are, and why do you think you need them? :) (Those are serious questions, btw)
Glue records are also called "Host records", or Alternatively called: "Nameserver" records. These are A and AAAA records for your domain name which appear in the parent TLD zone, instead of the child zone.
Host records also typically appear in WHOIS, for example: "$ whois ns5.yahoo.com"
If you think your registrar does not support them, then you're probably having trouble with your registrar's user interface, and just don't have the right procedure, because the use of host records is quite essential and necessary for at least one domain to self-host DNS......
These records are non-authoritative and belong to the reply delegating nameservers for your domain to your servers, and you need to duplicate a copy of all your NS, A, AAAA records in your child zone, which must be identical to the parent's version of the records.
For example, suppose your domain name is "Example.com" And you want your nameservers to be NS1.example.com, NS2.example.com, NS3.example.com.
Because the nameservers exist in the same domain name which references them, the required DNS lookup graph is circular, and your DNS zone becomes an island!
In order for clients to find your nameserver to figure out what NS1.example.com resolves to, it first needs to be able to find a nameserver for Example.com, which is NS1.example.com.
This is what is circular without a Hint in the Additional section of the DNS reply from the parent nameserver.
The glue record in the parent zone is used to tell the parent TLD server to include the IP address of your nameserver in the Additional Section of the DNS reply, so you can bootstrap DNS resolution for Example.com.
Doug -- -JH
In message <CAAAwwbXLb=ZDJMRHvZ3_657fbh2ivXOQpZC2G8prK5JuccX_rw@mail.gmail.com> , Jimmy Hess writes:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 09/21/2016 01:44 PM, Richard Holbo wrote:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of What do you think glue records are, and why do you think you need them? :) (Those are serious questions, btw)
Glue records are also called "Host records", or Alternatively called: "Nameserver" records. These are A and AAAA records for your domain name which appear in the parent TLD zone, instead of the child zone.
No. They are COPIES of records held in the parent zone to bootstrap access to the zone. They NEED to appear in BOTH places. If you only have them in the parent zone then you have a broken delegation which will fail intermittently for some resolvers when they learn that there are no records in the child zone. Named has code to detect this delegation error when it goes to load a zone. It blocks the load of the zone until you FIX the problem. It does this so that the error is made visible to the operator of the zone.
Host records also typically appear in WHOIS, for example: "$ whois ns5.yahoo.com"
If you think your registrar does not support them, then you're probably having trouble with your registrar's user interface, and just don't have the right procedure, because the use of host records is quite essential and necessary for at least one domain to self-host DNS......
These records are non-authoritative and belong to the reply delegating nameservers for your domain to your servers, and you need to duplicate a copy of all your NS, A, AAAA records in your child zone, which must be identical to the parent's version of the records.
For example, suppose your domain name is "Example.com" And you want your nameservers to be NS1.example.com, NS2.example.com, NS3.example.com.
Because the nameservers exist in the same domain name which references them, the required DNS lookup graph is circular, and your DNS zone becomes an isla nd!
In order for clients to find your nameserver to figure out what NS1.example.com resolves to, it first needs to be able to find a nameserver for Example.com, which is NS1.example.com.
This is what is circular without a Hint in the Additional section of the DNS reply from the parent nameserver.
The glue record in the parent zone is used to tell the parent TLD server to include the IP address of your nameserver in the Additional Section of the DNS reply, so you can bootstrap DNS resolution for Example.com.
Doug -- -JH -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
Yes I've had issues with providers dropping glue records! I have to email, and have a "advanced" support person fix them. The interface to do it myself has disappeared. Very frustrating. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Richard Holbo <holbor@sonss.net> wrote:
FWIW, as I'm in the middle of this right now. It would appear that many of the less expensive registrars no longer support glue records in any meaningful way. They all expect you to host DNS with them. So might want to check on that before buying the cheapest and hosting your own DNS. /rh
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjones@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com , networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
In message <CAJ0uJQjLWgdM-4djFDjyyESsybg0RGxLkt48zhoVTFYCwZficA@mail.gmail.com> , Jeff Jones writes:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
Remember to check that their DNS servers are RFC compliant. You can check EDNS compliance at https://ednscomp.isc.org/ednscomp Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
I use DNS Made Easy for all of my DNS hosting, which I'm happy to recommend. For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) is a good deal for the quantity of domains I own (56 and counting). It's kind of like Sam's Club -- you pay a membership fee for lower bulk pricing. Additionally they handle nearly every TLD, like .us, .name and co.uk. NearlyFreeSpeech.net looks to have pricing that is close to that of the Domain Club, may have to check them out. The Domain Club cost of $120 divided by 56 domains is about $2.15 per Domain, so NearlyFree wins handily. I'd like to learn more about the WHO behind NFSN, as well as how and when they offer support. TLD NearlyFree GoDaddy Domain Club [Adjusted] com $9.34 > $8.29 [$10.44] org $11.39 < $11.99 [$14.14] net $10.54 > $8.99 [$11.14] info $10.69 > $9.99 [$12.14] name $8.99 < $9.99 [$12.14] biz $11.19 < $11.99 [$14.14] In the 10-15 years of using GoDaddy, despite my disagreement with some of their marketing and public business positions, my domains don't get stolen, they haven't shut anything down, I haven't lost a domain name, and their support is decent when I need it (and it is 24/7 phone / email / chat). [1] https://www.godaddy.com/domains/discount-domains.aspx Beckman On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Jeff Jones wrote:
Hello All,
Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, reliable registrar. Thanks for your input.
~Jeff
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I've had quite good luck with: Gandi, Hover, 101domains, and Google Domains -- depending on which cc/TLDs you're looking for. ____________ Justin Paine Head of Trust & Safety CloudFlare Inc. PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ...
There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
R's, John
I'll throw in a recommendation for Dyn. The reliability and features are excellent and I love their support. allan
On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Justin Paine via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
I've had quite good luck with: Gandi, Hover, 101domains, and Google Domains -- depending on which cc/TLDs you're looking for.
____________ Justin Paine Head of Trust & Safety CloudFlare Inc. PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ...
There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
R's, John
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:35 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ... There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
Prepayment makes no sense, unless you are planning on maintaining more than 10 domains, which warrants much more due dilligence than if registering one or two domains. Also, if you're maintaining one or two domains, then it is sensible to pay more for a registrar that provides better support, or a more intuitive web interface. For maintaining a larger number of domains: perhaps more powerful management tools are more useful, and possibly the ease-of-use is a lower priority. Therefore, it depends on what you are doing with domains. I know of registrars that are $8.99 per Year and $8.39 per Year for a .COM, with no prepayment necessary, for those rates, and small discounts for prepay. * They say "cheap, secure, reliable, pick two" But that's not really how it is. it's really more like "Inexpensive, Good support, Feature-complete", pick two. Because no registrar is "secure" totally; phishing is conceivable with any registrar. That includes ne'er do wells pre-texting you and tricking registrar support personnel to change your e-mail address plus password and give it to a cracker. You can't give up reliability to get security, so the original 3 don't work. Every registrar known to offer advanced security mitigations charges a boatload, or part of a boatload to add them. If you want security, then the closest you get is what's called a Registry lock with' a telephone-based confirmation of domain changes, And two-factor login to the website. Last I check, getting the registry lock service is Only available on certain TLDs, and adds between $500 and $1000 Per domain name to the cost. Also, there is a bit of inconvenience, since you are setting a lock which your domain registrar is unable to override on their own, so routine maintenance such as updating DNS servers or renewing becomes a potentially drawn-out process..... Various registrars offer Two-Factor website login and 'Max Lock' features of their own, providing their own confirmation, and just a Client/Registrar-Lock on the domain, But again...... you can't see the registrar's IT systems, so blindly assuming they are secure would be silly. Certainly price can't tell you that. None of the registrars are going to be totally secure. It's just a question of.... How long have they been around, how much business does the registrar do, and how many times have they been hacked and the hack was bad enough that the internet community discovered it? -- -JH
On Wed, 22 Sep 2016, John Levine wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ...
There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
I see the discount, and $600 prepay IS cheaper than Gandi rates with NO prepay. But the other companies are still less expensive even with the Gandi prepay. TLD NearlyFree GoDaddy DDC Gandi B Rates ($600) com $9.34 $10.44 $14.50 org $11.39 $14.14 $16.20 net $10.54 $11.14 $17.00 info $10.69 $12.14 $15.55 name $8.99 $12.14 $14.60 biz $11.19 $14.14 $16.28 Now if you get to $12,000 prepay, you get E Rates, where .com is $8.80 and .net is $11.00. Lower than most, but NearlyFree is still very competitive and even beats Gandi on a few TLDs at E Rates. I'm sure there are more benefits to Gandi over others than just price. I agree with the other poster that other dimensions are also important and valuable: support quality, security, policies, UI, ease of use, communication. Beckman NOTE: All rates quoted are RENEWAL rates, not transfer or new, as of 9/21/16. GoDaddy DDC rates are discounted and adjusted for 56 domains for the DDC fee of $120 per year. More domains == lower prices. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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