Recommended Domain Registrar

jlandes

jlandes

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Hello,

I currently have multiple domains registered through Network Solutions. A few will be expiring soon, so I wanted to look into switching domain registrars because of Network Solutions high prices. Can anyone recommend a good registrar?

Thanks.
 
jlandes said:
Hello,

I currently have multiple domains registered through Network Solutions. A few will be expiring soon, so I wanted to look into switching domain registrars because of Network Solutions high prices. Can anyone recommend a good registrar?

Thanks.
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You could look at godaddy and 1and1....if you don't mind supporting someone who has no problem in competing with you for web hosting and other internet business.

While 1and1 is cheaper, their accounting department is like dealing with Atilla the Hun. Godady costs more, but changes make to your records there seem to show up on the net faster than most places.

If you have enough domains. you can set yourself up to resell them...tucows does that for quite a few folks.

Thom
 
jlandes said:
Hello,

I currently have multiple domains registered through Network Solutions. A few will be expiring soon, so I wanted to look into switching domain registrars because of Network Solutions high prices. Can anyone recommend a good registrar?

Thanks.
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I've been using www.NameBargain.com for the past 5 years.. Never a problem and simple stoopid domain administration without all the unnecessary bells and whistles.. $8.88 to register a domain...

Cheers..
 
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All of the companies mentioned sell hosting as well. When I try to find www.NameBragian.com I get a server not found error. In fact whois says the domain doesn't exist.

One suggestion would be to negotiate with Dotster, depending on the number of domains you have; you get your own control panel, you get to have it look anyway you want it to look (there's full support for headers, footers, and CSS), and you can only show your products. To see what I mean, look here; it doesn't look at all like GoDaddy, does it? Just don't buy domain's there; our retail prices are way too high :) .

Contact me privately for other possible solutions.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
All of the companies mentioned sell hosting as well. When I try to find www.NameBragian.com I get a server not found error. In fact whois says the domain doesn't exist.

One suggestion would be to negotiate with Dotster, depending on the number of domains you have; you get your own control panel, you get to have it look anyway you want it to look (there's full support for headers, footers, and CSS), and you can only show your products. To see what I mean, look here; it doesn't look at all like GoDaddy, does it? Just don't buy domain's there; our retail prices are way too high :) .

Contact me privately for other possible solutions.

Jeff
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oops.. Type o.. try www.NameBargain.com
 
They also sell hosting on their mainpage. Why not create your own reseller account (see my post above)?

Jeff
 
Yeah, it was, Thom. Read the bottom of his post; you'll see he edited it after I brought it to his attention.

;)

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
Yeah, it was, Thom. Read the bottom of his post; you'll see he edited it after I brought it to his attention.
;)

Jeff
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Ah.....

Back to the dotster thing....I set up an account there ages ago....when folks were paying 15 bucks or so a year, it made sense...but the prices are so low now that their base price is still high, I think.

You can also reach the same stuff via mydomain.com

Thom
 
mydomain.com is Dotster. Every domain registrar has a low priced company as well as a high-priced company. Including us ;) .

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
mydomain.com is Dotster. Every domain registrar has a low priced company as well as a high-priced company. Including us ;) .

Jeff
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As I recall, Dotster purchased MyDomain....MyDomain had a large customer base....one of the thngs that they still do is stealth forwarding....and, unlike having the browser that calls domainb "see" domainA ... you can actually tell their software to point domain b to domaina/domainb.

I use that feature a lot to have homes a large number of .us locality domains.

Thom
 
MyDomain (mydomain.com) is fully integrated into Dotster. If I go to the mydomain.com website, and enter my login details, I'm taken directly to my Dotster reseller system :) .

Those forwarders you've mentioned; you can create aliases under DA to do exactly the same thing; if you click on the Alias box the aliased domain will be in the browser field; if not, then the domain you're forwarded to will appear in the browser field.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
MyDomain (mydomain.com) is fully integrated into Dotster. If I go to the mydomain.com website, and enter my login details, I'm taken directly to my Dotster reseller system :) .
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Yes....and as you go through your reseller system, you'll notice some of the pages display registerapi.com, not whatever domain you want folks to notice.

I always thought that was a bit hokey, since it immediately shows the user that you are not really the "Whole Enchalada".

jlasman said:
Those forwarders you've mentioned; you can create aliases under DA to do exactly the same thing; if you click on the Alias box the aliased domain will be in the browser field; if not, then the domain you're forwarded to will appear in the browser field.
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OK...I am really confused now.
Redirect looks like
Local URL Path maryland.com eg: /redirect or: /
Redirect Type
Destination URL eg: http://www.redirected.com

Isn't that really saying that I can redirect ALL of the maryalnd.com
domain to www.redirected.com
or
that I can redirect maryland.com/thom to http://www.redirected.com

The other option I see is
Domain Pointers
Add New Domain Pointer
Source Domain http://www. --> maryland.com eg: sourcedomain.com
So I could have md.com point to baltimoremd.com ???

But how can I:
have jefflasman.com redirected to
maryland.com/consultant
and have the address in the browser appear as
jefflasman.com

It's all so confusing for my pea sized brain

Thom
Have
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tlchost said:
Yes....and as you go through your reseller system, you'll notice some of the pages display registerapi.com, not whatever domain you want folks to notice.
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Not on my reseller account; check out domains.nobaloney.net/ but don't buy anything there; the prices are too high :) .
I always thought that was a bit hokey, since it immediately shows the user that you are not really the "Whole Enchalada".
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I agree and there are plenty of things about Dotster I do NOT like. But it's a complete site, fully customizable, and I don't have to write to an API. But when you look at my site you don't see registerapi.com. Because I use something called a zero-height frame. Which, btw, is what Plesk uses to do what you're asking about.
Isn't that really saying that I can redirect ALL of the maryalnd.com
domain to www.redirected.com
or
that I can redirect maryland.com/thom to http://www.redirected.com
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If I read you correctly, yes.
The other option I see is
Domain Pointers
Add New Domain Pointer
Source Domain http://www. --> maryland.com eg: sourcedomain.com
So I could have md.com point to baltimoremd.com ???
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Again, yes. With or without the domain name changing in the URL window of the browser.
But how can I:
have jefflasman.com redirected to
maryland.com/consultant
and have the address in the browser appear as
jefflasman.com
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With a zero-height frame.

Though it's really an html issue not a hosting issue, I think I've written about it in these forums before.

It used to be confusing to me as well; the day I had to do it I had a choice of learning how or hiring someone. So I learned how :) .

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
But when you look at my site you don't see registerapi.com. Because I use something called a zero-height frame. Which, btw, is what Plesk uses to do what you're asking about.
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I stand corrected....I think I got confused, when I went to domains.nobaloney.net I saw https://secure.ezsecureusa.com/nobaloney/domains/ as the url, and then as I went to click on something like whois I saw that I was really going to https://secure.registerapi.com/order/register/check.php?siteid=9971

But, you're correct, it didn't show up on the page....most likely folks that don't pay attention to their browser would not notice it.

Thom
 
jlasman said:
Thom, when I go to my domains site it does a rewrite as you mention, but then when I click on whois, my browser windows still says:

https://secure.ezsecureusa.com/nobaloney/domains/

Does yours say something different?
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Perhaps I didn't write it clearly enough when I said:

and then as I went to click on something like whois I saw that I was really going to https://secure.registerapi.com/order...hp?siteid=9971

One simply needs to pay attention to what the browser displays to notice that.

Since I know you, I have no problem with going to one site, seeing it redirected to another site, and then seeing that is really bringing up a third site....

Thom
 
Again, on my browser on my desktop it doesn't ever show "secure.registerdapi.com" anywhere. What specifically are you doing to see that? If I know where it is I can probably fix it.

There are two reasons I redirect from domains.nobaloney.net to secure.ezsecureusa.com/nobaloney/domains:

1) I didn't want to have to buy a lot of certs; I use a shared cert on my system.

2) I use it as an example of what using a shared cert looks like.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
Again, on my browser on my desktop it doesn't ever show "secure.registerdapi.com" anywhere. What specifically are you doing to see that? If I know where it is I can probably fix it.
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In Opera, when you place the cursor on a link, a small window opens up and show the address of the link. In Explorer and Firefox, the link is at the bottom of the screen.

What I noticed on your site, if I place the mouse on the whois link, I can tell that I will be directed to
https://secure.registerapi.com/resell.php?goto=whois&siteid=9971

And so someone visiting
http://domains.nobaloney.net/ is imediately redirtected to
https://secure.ezsecureusa.com/nobaloney/domains/
and then if they watch the browser as they select the whois link
it tell them they are going to
https://secure.registerapi.com/resell.php?goto=whois&siteid=9971

For somone who knows you and knows that registerapi.com is Dotster(Or is Dotster registerapi.com?) it's probably not a problem.

Thom
 
tlchost said:
For somone who knows you and knows that registerapi.com is Dotster(Or is Dotster registerapi.com?) it's probably not a problem.
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Thom,

It probably would be possible to write some kind of 'proxy' script--a PHP or otherwise program that acts as a 'pass-through' for enduser requests.

e.g.,
1) User requests mydomainsite.com/proxy.php?goto=whois&siteid=9971
2) proxy.php opens internal query to registerapi.com/resell.php and passes the GET, POST and if necessary Cookie data.
3) proxy.php parses result of internal query and writes to STDOUT

Of course, getting that working securely to expectations would require some programming experience.

Phil
 
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