On 15 January 2013 22:19, Matthew Ghali <[email protected]> wrote: > TBH I've never even thought to have that expectation from a registrar; and in > fact I'd never assume they do the "right" thing. My first domain registrar > was the Internic, which probably explains the low bar. Many years later, > working at a registrar (on a hosted DNS product!) only reinforced my beliefs. > > In an ideal world, you'd get exactly what you pay for. In reality you get > less. Most people are definitely not paying for inter-provider coordination > and a seamless service cutover. Heck, they're paying barely enough for > service that answers *most* queries.
Some registrars would probably argue 1 DNS server occasionally being up was good enough to meet their obligations for the "free" (meaning included in the price and you pay for it if you use it or not) service if past experience is anything to go by. but there's a difference between "not 100% reliable" which is acceptable to use on domains that aren't very important and "we'll hijack your traffic to our landing page if you try to migrate away from us" which I don't think is acceptable even for the least important domains I have. - Mike _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
