Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-11 Thread Matt Minuti
$1.51/mo for a static site? Might want to check out NearlyFreeSpeech.net - I pay pennies for static, and around $0.50/mo for my ttrss instance (php, MySQL, cron jobs). They've been good about domain registration, too, if a bit lacking in suffixes. On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 8:39 AM Dan Garthwaite

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-10 Thread R. Anthony Lomartire
I have yet to use a registrar that is "great". On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM R. Anthony Lomartire < opensourcek...@gmail.com> wrote: > My 2 cents -- I use domain.com and they've been as good as a domain > registrar could be I suppose. > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:39 AM Dan Garthwaite

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-10 Thread R. Anthony Lomartire
My 2 cents -- I use domain.com and they've been as good as a domain registrar could be I suppose. On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:39 AM Dan Garthwaite wrote: > I switched to AWS. > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/registrar.html > > $12/yr and and their

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-10 Thread Dan Garthwaite
I switched to AWS. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/registrar.html $12/yr and and their business model isn't based on domain registration gimicks. I also opted for the 50cent/mo DNS hosting. Comes out to about $1.51/mo to host a static website on S3, all inclusive.

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-09 Thread Bruce Dawson (Simon)
I would move away from register.com - they're not very responsive or understanding of small domain holders. I use OpenSRS at tucows.com, and I find them inexpensive, non-invasive, and they give one the ability to get in the "domain business" (which means they have a storefront you can use to

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-09 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > I would recommend that you use a different registrar (better service, nicer > interface, less cost). That's what I thought I had understood from random bits. > If you transfer a domain to another registrar,

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I would recommend that you use a different registrar (better service, nicer interface, less cost). If you transfer a domain to another registrar, you will have to pay for another year, but that gets added to the current expiration. You generally don't want to do a transfer if the domain is about

Need advice on domain management and transfer

2017-08-09 Thread Tyson Sawyer
I hold a couple of domains. One is my own that I registered in '96 and the other belongs to a friend. The "other" I registered for him in '01 to help his small race engineering business. I have few issues. Well, a few to discuss here, I won't bring up working with Bobby Casey at this time...