[clue] dec29th = leave GoDaddy [politics/SOPA]

[David L. Anselmi]

Christopher Cross wrote:
> I have been a GoDaddy customer for years and for just about as long
> have hated there service. To do a simple domain purchase you are
> forced to sit through about 10 pages of add on offers. They bug me
> with email every week trying to get me to renew domains that will not
> expire for months and trying to navigate the GoDaddy site to manage
> your account is difficult at best.

I've registered with GoDaddy.  I go to their site once every 2-5yrs (whatever my expiration is). 
There's lots of advertising in the registration process but after that I never hear from them.  But 
I don't use any of their other services.

> Can anyone recommend a good registrar that does not attempt to sell me
> every little add on and has good DNS tools? I do not have a public DNS
> server at home so this is important. I need to be able to configure my
> MX records and my TTL along with TXT, A, CNAME records. I basically
> need to be able to configure the entire zone and rely on the
> registrar's DNS servers.

Registrar and DNS provider are two different services.  I use zoneedit.com for DNS (first 2 zones 
are free currently).  They'll let you do what you want but I don't know if you'd say they have good 
tools.  I have small domains that don't change much.  They've given me more than my money's worth.

It looks like zoneedit resells Domain.com--they aren't their own registrar.

I don't remember what I paid for registration but Dyn looks like it's $15/yr.  That's in the 
ballpark so I'll look at them next time.

Dave