zoneedit.com

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:48:06 -0500
> Pierre-Luc Drouin articulated:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike. <the.lists at mgm51.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote:
> > > | [snip]
> > > |
> > > |After reviewing zoneedit new website looks like they are no longer
> > > free
> > > |and there now in the domain register business....
> > >  =============
> > >
> > >
> > > Zoneedit was purchased by Dotster a while ago (few months?  couple
> > > of years?)
> > >
> > > If you look at an legacy zoneedit page, you'll see at the bottom:
> > >   (http://legacy.zoneedit.com/contact.html)
> > >
> > >     Zone Edit, LLC is a Dotster, Inc.-owned company.
> > >
> > > I have noticed zoneedit's quality of service declining since the
> > > purchase.  I switched to tunnelbroker.net's FreeDNS serivce and
> > > haven't looked back.
> > >
> > > The registration company I used, 000domains.com, was also purchased
> > > by Dotster, and I had to leave 000doamins.com due to customer
> > > service issues after the purchase.  I went to namecheap.com, and
> > > have been very satisfied.
>
> > I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by
> > Zoneedit. Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails
> > for my domain. Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service.
> > I need my router to be able to update the DNS information for my
> > dynamic IP address though...
>
> "http://dyn.com/dns/" can do that and "ddclient" needed to update the
> DNS is available in the ports system. I have set up several PC's with
> just this system and they work quite well.
>
> --
> Jerry ♔
>

Thanks, I will take a look. I got Zoneedit for free though..