[ale] dyndns.com

[John Heim]

I've gotten a lot of recommendations for namecheap.com.  I'd sign up 
with them in a second except their web site has some significant  
accessibility problems.   Even a lot of blind people recommended 
namecheap saying that it might not be easy to use the web site but other 
than that it's good. Of course, since you can see I am guessing that 
wouldn't apply.



On 10/30/13 12:42, James Sumners wrote:
> I've been using dyndns.org since at least 2001. In that time, they
> have dropped the free domains from 5, to 4, and finally 2. Earlier
> this year they pushed the free accounts into having to _manually_ log
> in to the dyndns.org website at least once every 30 days or the
> account will be deleted.
>
> If my ISP wouldn't randomly change my home IP, I'd be dropping
> dyndns.org. As it is, I'm in the market for an alternative (if I ever
> get the time to do the research).
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> If I understand correctly, it is about $10-15/yr for name registration. Then
>> you pay for DNS services. Not sure if OpenDNS could help here.
>>
>> FWIW I've been a DynDNS customer for a while.
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>>> I want to get a dynamic dns account for my vanity domain, johnheim.com. I
>>> see that dyndns has a debian package so I went there and created an account.
>>> When I started putting things in my shopping cart, I saw that  transfering
>>> the domain was like ten or twelve bucks. But it wants to charge me something
>>> like $35 for "standard DNS". Do I need that? I'm getting a total of around
>>> $45 for one year. Everywhere else I look, it's $10 to $15 *total*.
>>>
>>> The shopping cart options at dyndns.com  for DNS are something like
>>> "standard DNS", managed DNS (which is way more), and "I want to run my own
>>> DNS server." I don't want to pay $35 for DNS nor do I want to run my own DNS
>>> server.  Is the shopping cart just misleading or do I really need that
>>> standard DNS service?
>>>
>>> I know that I could just use a different company but I'm blind
>>> anddyndns.com works well with a screen reader. Better than  namecheap,
>>> godaddy, or namesecure.
>>>
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