On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Bill Barry wrote: > Also you don't need to use namecheap as your registrar in order to use > their freedns service.
After many hours on the web sites for namecheap, godaddy, and domaindiscover I finally have registrars and DNS nameservers straightened out. I share the information in case others are interested in making the move. The key is namecheap's freeDNS servers are only for those for whom the company is _not_ the domain registrar. As soon as the domain is transferred (and domaindiscover did so immediately), namecheap moves the domain to their regular nameservers: dns1-5.registrar-servers.com. Same features as freedns1-5.registrar-servers.com, but only for the domains they host. All three companies must be running Microsoft because their Web sites are flaky, work with Opera but not firefox-3.6.22, and keep having me re-log in each time I navigate to a new page. PITA! So, now I have a single registrar (but will probably lose the $27 and change paid to GoDaddy last June and not used for the remaining 51 months on that renewal), and all DNS nameservers at namecheap. If the script for the cron job updates the DNS servers when the IP address changes, and that does not negatively impact postfix, httpd, proftpd, and sshd, then I suppose there's no reason to leave Spirit1 as an ISP. Their price for the 3M/768K (the maximum I can get at since I'm apparently near the end of the wire out here) is less than anyone else's and access to the 'Net is a fungible commodity utility as far as I'm concerned since I use no other ISP services. So low price wins. Is my reasoning off anywhere here? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
