Jeff,

> One of my domain names is up for renewal.  I would rather not pay
> another $70 to Network Solutions.  Has anyone used any of the new domain
> name vendors?  What are the new domain name vendors?  Urls?

I've used the tucows (OpenSRS) one on behalf of someone else who is
actually the tucows registered user, but they had to pay $500 in advance
(for 50 domains at $10, I think).  It seems to work fine for registration
though. 

http://www.opensrs.org/

Hope this helps. 

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