Actually, Kirchoff's circuit laws kept me with GoDaddy. Zprocrastination and Zdoingstuff are in parallel, with Zdoingstuff really not that big but still very much larger than Zprocrastination. Guess which way my mind's current went.

(Ugh, too many formulas today...) -rt

has anyone see this website? http://www.nodaddy.com

Danica goes to formal events?

Yep, their claims are quite justified as well. GoDaddy is picky about whois data, they can delete your domain on a single complaint. They have no respect for ICANN regulations. They only do the right thing when you threaten them to file an ICANN complaint.
They also experience "technical difficulties" when you try to move your domain away.

I still have a few domains left there which I'll move soon, but I suggest staying away from them.

I used GoDaddy for the longest time, but lately their business practices have gotten to me. **Rant Alert**

- The Superbowl ads, and their insisting that whatever lame ad they come up with should be played next to other high paying advertisers without question.
- The fact that the owner, Bob Parsons, tries to use the site as his own political soapbox.
- The clutter and bloat on their site, You can't buy a domain without clicking through 10 different screens opting out of all their upsell crap.
- The fact that they charge $90.00 to renew a domain if you let it lapse past its expiration (to be fair I don't know if this is a common practice but I didn't see anything like this in the name.com ToS)
- The fact that if you update your Whois info (like you are supposed to) they bar you from transfering your domain off their site for 2 months. Thus forcing you to renew a domain if its close to expiration and being force to give money to godaddy or lose your domain.
- The fact that there are numerous reports that your domain will be deleted no questions asked if they suspect anything funny about it.
- Terrible, clueless customer service if you ever have a problem.
The fact that they are constantly begging to take control of the .com registry and publicly complain about it. I don't blame them getting denied by the maturity of the management over things like this.
- Their prices have increased and I can get better service elsewhere.


Now I use Name.com

- They seem to have better redundancy with their free dns servers than godaddy.
- Clean UI with almost no upselling. And what they do is very unobtrusive.
- No Domain games.
- FREE private whois....Such a great value. Save yourself the trouble of getting spam, telemarketers and junk mail. And not have to Pay $10/year/Domain (over $100 for me).
- Their pricing is very cheap.
- I transferred all of the domains I care about to Name.com and will never look back. I get my SSL Certs from The Planet.

I just used nearlyfreespeech.net to register a domain for my linode.

It was really easy and fast. Less than 3 hours after doing the initial setup, the domain was up and running and correctly pointing at the linode IP address. All of this for just $8.59 a year...

Name.com does look interesting. I might have to move my domains there. I've always liked the idea of private whois, but never wanted to pay GoDaddy $9/year/domain for it. The fact that you can use RSA tokens for account security is a plus too.

Gandi has always served me well.
Every domain comes with quite a bunch of freebies, including mail hosting and an ssl certificate.

Checked that out and saw this. Boy, that sales literature looks awfully familiar...

why linode doesn't offer this service?

Because just about everyone else and their dog already does.

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/ Peter

There's fifteen bazillion other registrars out there, and at best, Linode would probably just become a reseller. That'd get a few pennies a month, a huge pile of stuff to build, and a bunch of support headaches.

Most of the non-core services Linode offers are things that you really can't do with a single VPS: authoritative DNS, deployment images, backups, etc. Paying $8.43/year to NearlyGoCheapCows isn't one of them.

Let the zillion others do it while Linode can focus on what they do best

I myself use two other registar's for my domains and DNS Made Easy for my DNS needs, each one of those three do what the do and do it well.

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Where "Thought Crime" is commited
http://www.rejecttheherd.net

Hey,

New to linode, but thought I would share who I use.

For names I value
http://theparsec.com
(Tucows; 3rd Largest)
Free Whois Privacy, DNS, Forwarding
Very easy to use interface.

For cheap registrations and renewals
http://88az.com
(The main registrar is fairly news with ~10k domains)
Free WhoIs Privacy, DNS; uses LogicBoxes platform, but still easy to use.

Even though DNS is provided for free and available with linode, I still use http://dnsmadeeasy.com

who is the best regisrar to manage our domain for linodes?