Ed Leafe wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
In my case it looks as if wananchi.com serve three roles - web
hosting, DNS service and registration service.
Zoneedit seem to offer free, basic web hosting as well as DNS. If I
decided to go that route ('cos I'm a _really_ cheap bastard ;-) )would
I need to deal with wananchi.com (as the current registration service
provider) OR with Tucows (the registrar) OR with both of them ?
There are only a few actual registrars for domain names. In this
case, wananchi.com acted as a reseller for tucows, which is very common.
I guess your choice depends on how comfortable and satisfied you are
with a company; a couple of bucks in the fee isn't as important. I
switched to GoDaddy years ago because I wasn't happy with Network
Solutions: their prices were way too high, and their service sucked.
Since then GoDaddy has grown incredibly, and their website can be a
little annoying, but I haven't had any problems with them at all. I
needed to transfer a domain I was managing for a company to someone
else, and it was pretty painless.
I've used NetSol, register.com and a half dozen other 'cheapo' registrars.
NetSol and register were (are?) charlatans. NetSol, last time I looked,
charged ridiculous prices AND didn't give you any DNS capability for
that money - you had to pay EXTRA. What a rip.
Now I use godaddy exclusively. Their spam can be a bit annoying - they
seem to have a 'special sale' every week or so, and there is an AWFUL
lot of garbage on their website (it's busier than yahoo), but once you
find where you want to go, I, too, have never had a problem.
Propagation is near instantaneous just about every time I've made a DNS
change as well.
Once the domain is registered, you need to figure out how you're
going to serve it: either on your own machines, or hosted at an ISP or
colo site. This is a much more important choice than the others, since
it holds the most variability. Make sure that the host has the
capabilities you need.
Finally, you have to tie the two together via DNS. If you go with
something like ZoneEdit for your hosting, well, it's a no-brainer to use
them for DNS too.
I'm missing something. Why aren't you using godaddy for DNS as well? Or
is this one of those "Inconceivable!" "I don't think that word means
what you think it means." things?
Whil
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