Registrars

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 20 February 2006 05:00, Don Erickson wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > I have also heard many cases of GoDaddy purposely selling
> > typo-based domain names for porn and similar illicit websites.
>
> Probably registered oogle.com and yahooo.com to porno-pervananceiers.
> Check.

Nah, their patterns suggest that they determine high-traffic domains and 
suggest those to the porno sites.

> > They also only manage your DNS if you use their DNS servers *only* (minor
> > issue, and may have changed, etc).
>
> Now, this one I don't understand.  How can anybody manage your DNS on
> someone else's server?  They direct dns queries to whatever hosts you
> designate, and that's it.  That's all anybody can do.

Most who register domains also include usage of their DNS servers. In some 
cases, you could use those as backup DNS in case your primaries go down.

> I appreciate your feedback, thanks for replying.  Competence and price are
> my two primary requisites, godaddy still looks good on those counts.

Most registrars are fine on those counts.

> I admit that I support several immoral business industries already, (gas,
> food, lodging, etc. etc.) and I pay taxes to an immoral government and
> vote for immoral politicians.  I buy immoral products and computers made
> in China and, horrors of horrors, I run Linux.

Linux is anything but immoral...