For just registering the domain name then being able to point your DNS to your servers, both namecheap and name.com can do that. I can't remember namecheap's pricing on .name domains, but I assume it's nearly identical to name.com (which I listed those prices above).
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, [email protected] wrote: > > Are you looking for a hosting package with domain registration and DNS or > > just domain registration and DNS? > > Actually, neither. I don't want the DNS at all. _I_ want to run the DNS. I > just want to get my domains registered. So if my ip range is is > 209.66.77.64-71 for example, and I have name servers at .66 and .67, then I > want one of THEM queried when someone tries to lookup www.<mydomain>.name. > When they try to send email messages to me@<mydomain>.name it asks my name > servers who the MX servers are. The only name work I want the registrar > doing is registering my name servers with the gtld servers. I will do all > the hosting, whether it's DNS, email, web, or anything else. > > That was kind of my point. I can think of a few really inexpensive places > to register as long as I am hosting the site on their servers. But that's > exactly what I DON'T want. I want them to ONLY do the one thing I can't, > which is change the config on the gtld servers so that they know that > <mydomain>.name is serviced by (in the above example) 209.66.77.66 and > 209.66.77.67. Once gtld gets queried, it should point to my name servers. > They will, in turn, point to my own servers for all other tasks. I'll take > 3rd party DNS if it's the only way possible, but if at all possible, I want > to to the DNS myself. The registrar should register my domain and that's > it. > > --- Dan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
