The only time I've seen DNS being pulled or domains pointed at holding pages as described is with resellers of registrars
Not saying that registrars don't do it ever, but I've never seen any do it Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight http://Blacknight.tel Via iPhone so excuse typos and brevity On 16 Jan 2013, at 01:51, "Mike Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
