On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > This isn't a problem as such but I don't understand why it's happening > > and I'd like to understand. > [...] > > Quite a few years ago I had quite a few domains hosted at TsoHost who, > many years ago, were an excellent hosting provider. However they were > taken over and their service and support deteriorated so I moved my > domains away from them. I moved most of my mail hosting (and the > associated domains) to Mythic Beasts. After a while I had got all my > domains away from TsoHost apart from one fly in the ointment which was > isbd.biz. > > The problem with isbd.biz was that it is a 'premium' name and many > hosting providers couldn't handle it. Initially Mythic Beasts seemed > like they could host it so I started the move to them, however it all > went pear-shaped and they found that they couldn't host it. It stayed > with TsoHost a little longer and then I found a US based provider > called spaceship.com who could host the isbd.biz domain and who were a > lot cheaper than Tsohost. > > So I moved isbd.biz to spaceship.com a year or so ago and it was all > working OK, or so I thought. It doesn't actually have much of an > existence, there's no web sites on isbd.biz and no significant E-Mail > either. My only current use is as the name of a VPS on FastHosts > which runs a DavCal calendar server.
Related and off-topic, you should open an OpenSRS account and become a reseller. You will be the registrar, and you can basically buy domains at cost. No need to pay the premiums to hosting providers to register and renew domains. Becoming a reseller does not cost much. You pay a one-time fee, if I recall correctly. It cost me about $100 USD about 15 years ago. I got a full return on investment once I renewed 3 or 4 domains since each renewal saved me about $25. As the registrar, you also control the EPC codes (or EPP code or Auth Codes). You can generate them at will. No need to depend on others to transfer or sell a domain. And you can do the other things, like add privacy and block transfer. Jeff
