[ale] Recommendations for Domain Registrar?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Scary stuff.

Some years back one of our Network Solutions domains got pointed to some other DNS servers and we got it pointed back but they wouldn’t tell us what had happened.   A week or so later I found an article saying it had happened to other domains there.

This past Friday that very same domain got renewed for 5 years based on what appears to be a called in Social Networking thing.  Luckily they didn’t move the domain or actually change the official contacts.  I think we’ve raised enough of a stink about it that they’d have a hard time claiming we sold it.   My calls to them have not given me a warm fuzzy that they either know or care what actually happened Friday.

However, we do have over 300 domains with them and I’ve not seen those kind of issues on any of the others.   But then again I don’t get weekly offers from others to buy those domains and do this one.

Not long ago web.com bought Network Solutions so I’m afraid there may be flux in the organization allowing for more social engineering.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:44 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Recommendations for Domain Registrar?

I dumped Network solutions when they sold one of my domains out from under me without my permission. They did the same thing a few months later to a client domain that included hosting.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Alan Hightower <alan at alanlee.org<mailto:alan at alanlee.org>> wrote:

I'm still using Network Solutions from back when they were the only game in town.

While they don't have Danica strutting around, I can say I've never really had an issue with them, have only had to call customer service once in 20 years, and they were very helpful then.

My $.02.

-Alan


On 2014-03-13 15:27, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
I have a domain registration for a non profit that's due for renewal.

Currently with iPower.com

We would like to xfer ownership and I figured some shopping
for a reasonably priced and freedom conscientious registrar
was in order.

Thanks in advance for suggestions!

in peace,
aaron




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