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yes, you can enter a wildcard record yourself, and that will override the name.com wildcard. Is it irritating that they do that? Sure. Should they be doing? pro

yes, you can enter a wildcard record yourself, and that will override the name.com wildcard. Is it irritating that they do that? Sure. Should they be doing? probably not. But it does have a pretty simple fix. Personally, I use a third-party dns service. Seen too many registrars play with DNS. Don't know why anyone would trust them.

moepstar 14y ago
>> Don't know why anyone would trust them. I don't know about you, but i give everyone the benefit of doubt and unless someone violates this trust, i'd think most people do too. Also, at least i tend to think of registrars as some kind of neutral entity that i, indeed, can trust - guess there are some exceptions to the rule. How many years and years of abuse has it taken for people to notice what GoD*ddy has been doing all that time and finally cause some sort of mass-defect to other registrars.. Hopefully, the level of tolerance for this behavior is of an all-time low so registrars simply can't afford to abuse the trust of their customers any longer.
- rgbrenner 14y ago
  "I don't know about you, but i give everyone the benefit of doubt and unless someone violates this trust, i'd think most people do too." True.. and I used to trust registrars to manage my DNS.. but over the years, this is at least the 3rd or 4th time this has happened with a registrar I am on (yes, I have domains at name.com). Since I don't have time to interrogate every registrars DNS server when I sign up, I just assume it's useless these days. + I end up having to pay for a DNS service anyway, to avoid the bad registrars DNS.. so it's easier to use a single DNS service for all of the domains.
- pi18n 14y ago
  This is what happened. For example, I previously gave Name.com the benefit of the doubt and sent them an email asking them to fix the issue. They did not, so now I mention this every time I see their service mentioned. They are scum just like GoDaddy but on a lower scale.

moepstar 14y ago

>> Don't know why anyone would trust them. I don't know about you, but i give everyone the benefit of doubt and unless someone violates this trust, i'd think most people do too. Also, at least i tend to think of registrars as some kind of neutral entity that i, indeed, can trust - guess there are some exceptions to the rule. How many years and years of abuse has it taken for people to notice what GoD*ddy has been doing all that time and finally cause some sort of mass-defect to other registrars.. Hopefully, the level of tolerance for this behavior is of an all-time low so registrars simply can't afford to abuse the trust of their customers any longer.

rgbrenner 14y ago
"I don't know about you, but i give everyone the benefit of doubt and unless someone violates this trust, i'd think most people do too." True.. and I used to trust registrars to manage my DNS.. but over the years, this is at least the 3rd or 4th time this has happened with a registrar I am on (yes, I have domains at name.com). Since I don't have time to interrogate every registrars DNS server when I sign up, I just assume it's useless these days. + I end up having to pay for a DNS service anyway, to avoid the bad registrars DNS.. so it's easier to use a single DNS service for all of the domains.
pi18n 14y ago
This is what happened. For example, I previously gave Name.com the benefit of the doubt and sent them an email asking them to fix the issue. They did not, so now I mention this every time I see their service mentioned. They are scum just like GoDaddy but on a lower scale.