Comment by wrs
2 years ago
People still use Network Solutions? Is there a reason?
They disappeared from my view after their domain front-running fiasco (wow, in 2008, how time flies).
2 years ago
People still use Network Solutions? Is there a reason?
They disappeared from my view after their domain front-running fiasco (wow, in 2008, how time flies).
They are an incredibly shitty company.
As late as last year, and possibly even now, they were STILL charging extra if you wanted to use TLS connections for email. Otherwise, they're more than happy to allow connections with passwords over cleartext.
Their failure modes for all sorts of things is to default to pointing everything at their servers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to charge extra for "premium" registrar features like adding glue for nameservers.
Anyone using them should move away as soon as humanly possible, even though they make it incredibly difficult to do so.
One of the reasons I am using it (I inherited it, looking to move) is due to being able to delegate some responsibilities to other staff without giving them the whole thing.
What other services would you recommend that provide the same? I reached out to their support because I couldn't update contact info and the spam to my company phone line was so ridiculous I had to send it to voice mail for a month.
I'd love a service that lets me delegate some technical aspects to others. Godaddy is a non-option.
All the services I use personally are, well, for personal use and don't seem to support multiple accounts.
I use Namecheap and have for years (moved off godaddy when I didn’t want to give that poacher Bob Paraons any more money).
Looks like they have that feature:
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
AWS Route53? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/ac...
That might be an option as we do use AWS. I'll have to investigate, thank you!
Gandi.
Sadly, it seems Gandi has been getting slimy lately as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
I have been registered with them since pre-icann. I never had a reason to change. I paid for my domain for a 100 years and now I just pay yearly automatically the last time I dealt with them.
I have my DNS handled by panix.com.
If you paid for 100 years why do you also have to pay yearly?
to stay a 100 years ahead. If something goes wrong with payment processing I will always have a 100 years to straighten it out.
When I first did it I was worried some might try to take my 4 letter plural proper noun domain name. I figured if I had a contract for a 100 years it would definitively define my ownership of the domain name.
>People still use Network Solutions? Is there a reason?
I'm with them since time immemorial.
The cost and headaches, both actual and potential, of the downtime incurred changing providers exceeds the potential savings in annual bills.
Are we talking thousands of domains or something? It’s been quite simple in my personal experience, just first creating matching DNS records anywhere else, then do the NS change for the domain, then do the registrar transfer. I’ve never had downtime.