 NOYBSt. John 3.16Premium
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
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4 edits | Never Use Registrars Domain Name Search EnginesFirst lookup up with a DNS request (nslookup for Windows users).
Then back it up with a WHOIS search to see if the name you want is registered.
Then select the registrar of your choice to register the name with.
This is how I have always done this. I never have trusted registrars not to be running some sort of scam to hold a good name hostage or even worse, flat out register it if it is a really good name.
Everything to do with internet has sunk to the lowest common denominator. Worst that dealing with used car salesman. User, buyer, operator beware.
Which brings me to another pet peeve of mine. There are way too many resellers out there. They are all selling the same backend services for any one of just a very few providers. This yields less and less differentiated services available. It is quickly becoming one size fits all with no real meaningful competition differentiated by services and capabilities. Just a few resellers slugging it out over price differences of only a few pennies.
The little guy is hosed yet again.
Check this out and see what I mean, can not even find a shared web host that allows outbound connections (without use of CURL etc. to go through their proxy). Why do you suppose that is? I believe it is because they are all (most anyway) just resellers of the same very few backend provider(s).
»Looking for Shared Web Host (fsockopen)
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Be a Good Netizen - Read, Know & Honor Your ISP Terms of Service
Comcast: »www.comcast.net/terms/index.jsp
Verizon: »onlinehelp.verizon.net/consumer/···0707.pdf |
| Great advice NOYBNOYB. Unfortunately 95% of the users on the internet are not going to understand what or how to use nslookup.
I can't believe the management of Network Solutions keeps on doing this crap! I guess they realize that 95% of the users on the internet are not goign to be savy enough to realize this is going on and the rest of us are just going to bitch in forums. Too bad a news media outlet hasn't embraced this.
Network Solutions new slogan should be "We steal it before someone else does!" That pretty much sums it up. |
