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by freejack 15y ago
yeah, that's why you want to find one that won't. or at least, won't do it in a way that will leave you high and dry without notice.
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by freejack 15y ago
My recommendation would be to run your own DNS on your own IP addresses. Even with the IP shortage, you should be able to get a small block delegated to you that you can use for your mission critical apps. Once you've got that arranged for,
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by freejack 15y ago
I accept your point but reject the generalization. Not all registrars have embraced the prevailing approach you've identified - we've embraced exactly the opposite and work extremely hard to be as transparent and uncomplicated as possible.
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by freejack 15y ago
Speaking only for myself, there's only a certain amount of opportunism that I'm comfortable with in piling on when a competitor stumbles, especially when it is rooted in politics. For example, Tucows does a ton of great work to support vari
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by freejack 15y ago
That article is horribly outdated. Hover does not store passwords in plaintext.
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by freejack 15y ago
Domain registrars have a long history of making transfers hard. Godaddy isn't the only registrar to do stuff like the 60 day lock. I just wrote up a piece on my blog yesterday about this very subject - http://www.byte.org/2011/12/26/evolvi
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by freejack 15y ago
Shameless Plug: Here's a complete tutorial for moving to Hover - https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-prepara... Let me know if we can help with anything.
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Domain Name Transfers: A long history of games(byte.org)
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by freejack 15y ago
hah - as I wrote this, the exact some issue cropped up. Was fixed again within minutes. :)
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by freejack 15y ago
Its not as clear when you are seeing traffic from a reseller like Namecheap. I can imagine that their query traffic comes through enom and their own systems depending on the TLD in question.
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by freejack 15y ago
By casual view, I mean from the customer side. The change triggered an alarm pretty quickly and from the back-end the cause was pretty obvious and quickly fixed.
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by freejack 15y ago
These types of things happen all the time behind the scenes. The entire domain registration system is very loosely coupled as it relates to transfers - too loose imo, and breakage is really easy. We had a situation last week where a registr
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by freejack 15y ago
Most of the transfers we do take place in just a few minutes - a few hours is pretty common. Taking days is generally a boundary case nowadays. oBDisclaimer - I work for a huge registrar.
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by freejack 15y ago
%% whois namecheap.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: NAMECHEAP.
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by freejack 15y ago
Is this a Namecheap specific issue or more general to eNom who they are a reseller for. Nothing on the enom system status page... http://www.enom.com/registrynews.asp
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by freejack 15y ago
NC is an enom reseller, so I'd guess that all of enom would be affected as well. Nothing on the eNom status page, so not sure... http://www.enom.com/registrynews.asp
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by freejack 15y ago
Most transfers complete within hours. Some take as long as 3-5 days, but a good registrar can make it happen very quickly nowadays. To your point, I can say that our retail transfer rate for the 22nd was up 10x from the prior day, the 23rd,
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by freejack 15y ago
Not really hundreds of thousands of dollars. They already have the money and none of it gets transferred to the new registrar. If you move a domain name from Godaddy to Hover that has five years left before expiry, I have to support you for
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by freejack 15y ago
The ICE seizures relied on this. Also of worry is the nexus created by the Regional Internet Registries (ARIN, etc.) which manage the address space and associated policy. ARIN manages the IP address space for US, Canada, many Caribbean and
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by freejack 15y ago
Yeah - mostly, sorta... :) Registries and ICANN do require registrars to include certain clauses in their contracts with end-users/registrants, but I'm not aware of any that include vague morality clauses. This document - http://www.opensr
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by freejack 15y ago
Yup, that's correct. We can terminate your contract with us and force a transfer out. We can also suspend DNS and email service if you use us and we can be required by the registries or law enforcement to take specific action based on our c
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by freejack 15y ago
Don't forget the millions that Godaddy invests in their lobbying activities each year. They had a hand in drafting SOPA, testify before congress etc. They are active in helping promote this type of legislation and haven't agreed to stop thi
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by freejack 15y ago
There's a lot of truth in these comments. The most effective change is productive change. Don't like something? Do something that's better. Look at startups like Square who are turning payment processing on its ear, or our project, Ting.com
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by freejack 15y ago
Boing Boing is claiming this was just a PR stunt. Thoughts?
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by freejack 15y ago
We'd be happy to have you. Let me know if you have any questions.
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by freejack 15y ago
This article makes an argument that I've heard from other SOPA supporters today - if you don't want to work with us, don't have any alternatives and don't want to propose improvements, then we should proceed with SOPA. Its such a ridiculous
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by freejack 15y ago
Probably for similar reasons to Godaddy supporting it and smaller registrars not. The larger players likely view it as much easier to absorb the impacts of the bill as a cost of doing business that puts the squeeze on the smaller players. C
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by freejack 15y ago
We did 10x the inbound xfer volume on the 22nd vs. the 21st. So far on the 23rd, we're at 80% of the volume we saw on the 22nd. This only counts completed transfers, and there are a ton more in process as people fiddle with the Godaddy kn
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by freejack 15y ago
Its a networking issue, not a legal or political issue. Big Media has decided to go to the mat to defend their dying business model at the expense of the Open Internet by lobbying for legislation like this. If you want to make the Internet
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by freejack 15y ago
This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating. http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won... "Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) cr

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