[OT] Domain Name Registrars

[Eric W. Bates]

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We like OpenSRS.  They have an API; so you can write your own code to
update what you want (or you can just use theirs).  Tech support is
quite good.

In this day-and-age my highest praise: "they're not assholes."

Duane Whitty wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> 
> Would anyone care to recommend a good domain name registrar,
> able to offer service for both gTLDs and .ca ccTLDs.
> 
> I've tried cheap and to be honest my headache just keeps growing.
> After having setup FreeBSD, DNS, Sendmail, and Apache,  I thought
> I had the hard stuff taken care of.  I guess I was wrong.
> 
> All I want to do is have my registrar point the name server entries for
> a .com domain I'm managing at the name servers I'm running.  Why is this
> so difficult?  Or expensive?
> 
> Is it my fault?  Am I doing something wrong?  -- I know, kinda hard to
> answer that.
> 
> My registrar told me my name server needs to be registered with ICANN. 
> I've read
> as much as I could find about ICANN's mandate and policies on their website
> http://www.icann.org but I couldn't find anything which indicated I had
> to register
> anything with them unless I intended on becoming an ICANN certified
> registrar.
> 
> It seems odd in any event that I would need to register my name server,
> which is in the .ca
> domain, with ICANN.  Obviously I had to register with CIRA but that
> seems irrelevant
> to my current situation / vexation.
> 
> If I do somehow need to register my name server with ICANN would someone
> be so kind
> as to point me to the correct RTFM entry, URI, etc.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Duane Whitty

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Eric W. Bates
ericx at vineyard.net
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