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I once had a domain at Namecheap show "Ownership change pending approval" to another username with a cancel link beside it and I recognized the username as some

by Lucent 4y ago

I once had a domain at Namecheap show "Ownership change pending approval" to another username with a cancel link beside it and I recognized the username as someone who made offers before out of band. Never got an email or saw any kind of notification, and I've been in the game 25 years and know those extremely long domain transfer emails and read them carefully. Started transferring domains away after that.

noname120 4y ago
What alternative host would you recommend?
- sammax 4y ago
  I’m quite happy with Glauca [1], they’re not quite as cheap but their DNS stuff is pretty good and they are friendly and helpful. Only downside is their website being a bit slow sometimes. [1] https://glauca.digital https://glauca.digital
- homero 4y ago
  Porkbun and Cloudflare are the best and cheap
  - mkl 4y ago
    What's Porkbun's support like?
    - dsissitka 4y ago
      I contacted them once before moving over and once after and they were good to me. I'm happy with them for domains but I wouldn't recommend them for email.
  - LilBytes 4y ago
    CloudFlare unfortunately still have a very limited subset of TLDs available.
- formerly_proven 4y ago
  I can heartily recommend https://inwx.com https://inwx.com - they have exceptionally good support.
- fdcba 4y ago
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  - sunaurus 4y ago
    I've had a horrible experience with zone.ee (aka zone.eu) and will always caution clients against using them. I had a client with a domain and some VPS hosted in zone.ee, and one day out of the blue with no prior communication, the client received a notice from a zone.ee employee that they had disabled a production service on a VPS, because apparently the Docker configuration of that service was causing some issues in their infrastructure, which was already quite strange. The real scary part was that the they didn't just turn off the VPS - the employee had actually backdoored into the running VPS and had manually disabled docker.service. The fact that they would do this without any communication beforehand just left me stunned and we immediately migrated away from zone.ee after that.
    - fdcba 4y ago
      That sounds unfortunate. I imagine it must've been time-critical, some side-effect of Docker being virtualised? I'd guess the hands-on approach was to avoid a full service disruption that a full shutdown would've caused. That aside, shielded VM's are very rare, most providers have the ability to see inside VM's, issue commands in them.

by Lucent 4y ago

noname120 4y ago

What alternative host would you recommend?

sammax 4y ago
I’m quite happy with Glauca [1], they’re not quite as cheap but their DNS stuff is pretty good and they are friendly and helpful. Only downside is their website being a bit slow sometimes. [1] https://glauca.digital https://glauca.digital
homero 4y ago
Porkbun and Cloudflare are the best and cheap
- mkl 4y ago
  What's Porkbun's support like?
  - dsissitka 4y ago
    I contacted them once before moving over and once after and they were good to me. I'm happy with them for domains but I wouldn't recommend them for email.
- LilBytes 4y ago
  CloudFlare unfortunately still have a very limited subset of TLDs available.
formerly_proven 4y ago
I can heartily recommend https://inwx.com https://inwx.com - they have exceptionally good support.
fdcba 4y ago
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- sunaurus 4y ago
  I've had a horrible experience with zone.ee (aka zone.eu) and will always caution clients against using them. I had a client with a domain and some VPS hosted in zone.ee, and one day out of the blue with no prior communication, the client received a notice from a zone.ee employee that they had disabled a production service on a VPS, because apparently the Docker configuration of that service was causing some issues in their infrastructure, which was already quite strange. The real scary part was that the they didn't just turn off the VPS - the employee had actually backdoored into the running VPS and had manually disabled docker.service. The fact that they would do this without any communication beforehand just left me stunned and we immediately migrated away from zone.ee after that.
  - fdcba 4y ago
    That sounds unfortunate. I imagine it must've been time-critical, some side-effect of Docker being virtualised? I'd guess the hands-on approach was to avoid a full service disruption that a full shutdown would've caused. That aside, shielded VM's are very rare, most providers have the ability to see inside VM's, issue commands in them.