[ale] dyndns.com

[leam hall]

Yes, the $45 sounds about average for my bills. I admit that I've not
drilled into it for a while so there may be better offers out there.

Leam


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:45 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

>
> Do you pay for the standard DNS package? As I said, the cost for one year
> was like $35 which seems high for a service other companies give away for
> free when you buy a domain name.  That's why I was confused. If it was $5,
> I could understand it.I'd say, "Well, they are a little high but I like the
> accessibility of their web site."
>
>
> On 10/30/13 12:30, leam hall 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 <mailto:
>> john at johnheim.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     I want to get a dynamic dns account for my vanity domain,
>>     johnheim.com <http://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 <http://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 <http://anddyndns.com> works well with a screen
>>
>>     reader. Better than  namecheap, godaddy, or namesecure.
>>
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