Once you've registered the domain, you can move it over to Linode, at which point the interface is as cool as Linode since it is Linode

About the only thing left to do with the registrar is keep the WHOIS info up to date and make sure they have a valid credit card on file for whenever renewals happen; all other management can be done through Linode's pretty decent DNS interface.

My favourite registrar is: www.namecheap.com

Because they offer free whoisguard with a new registration and after the first year, it's very affordable.

But i have an interesting style, using namecheap as only registrar, not name server. I use www.xname.org as the name server. They are totally free.

Why i like them? Because they allow sub zone delegation (which is not A or CNAME), while almost most of the registrars do not support this feature.

What is sub zone delegation? If you want to give a portion of your domain name's control to someone else. Like you have abc.com.

You'll give myfriend.abc.com total control to your friend at totally another name server. Delegate myfriend.abc.com to other name server's with NS records and forget it. Your friend can independently manage that portion in his name server.

As registrars if they can support this and let me know if you find any

By the way, does Linode's DNS support this?

Regards,

cplnd

Any registrar "supports" this, simply because it has nothing to do with the registrar.

All it comes down to is adding NS records in your own dns zone, and it's really none of your registrar's business, nor can they really do anything to stop you from doing so.


HOWEVER, if the registrar provides a dns service in addition to their role of being the registrar and you choose to actually use their service (instead of eg the Linode dns service, running your own nameservers or something else), then sure, their service can be limited as to what records you can add in arbitrary ways and be generally horrible.

Yep, i mean the DNS service provided by registrars.

I use DreamHost to register my domains. They're okay for that and shared hosting (sometimes).

I've been an extremely happy customer of 123CheapDomains.com for many years now. Low prices ($13/yr) and good basic interface for managing the domains. I highly recommend them.

If you're going to register a bunch of domains, try OpenSRS.com and become a reseller. For $95/one-time, you can get super low prices, lots of other domains, bulk admin tools, etc. I'm a fairly new reseller of OpenSRS, but they seem stable enough and decent on customer service. They are owned by Tucows, of old internet fame.

Thanks,
Bruce

Some people have recommended NearlyFreeSpeech.net, and it seems that they're a good option.

However, I'm still a bit uncomfortable: if it was a large and well-known registrar I'd switch right away -- but in this case I'd like to at least know who's behind the company. Does anyone know that?

Thanks a lot!

The actual NFSN company is primarily a hosting company that has a somewhat nebulous definition of "who", but someone by the name of "jdw" appears to be integral. They're a privately-held company (much like Linode), so information is limited.

The underlying accredited registrar for domain registrations is DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM.

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sincerely I can't find any reason on why change my GoDaddy,
cheap, incredibly fast customer support, huge offer and you see some good boobs when you login.

And they have innovative ways of dealing with the elephants in the room, so to speak.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/12 ... n_nodaddy/

If you don't value your property, feel free to keep using GoDaddy. If you ever do something to offend them, good luck. They don't value you or any of their other customers, only the money you keep giving them.

hey what's this crap.
what the problem with ladies and elephants?
what they have done ? I don't know anything bad, what should I know?

With regards the elephants, see coverage of (GoDaddy founder and ex-CEO) Bob Parsons' pest control activities in Zimbabwe. With regards the ladies... I dunno, I'm usually grabbing more beer during Super Bowl commercials.

Having a big problem with 1and1.com right now. I transferred 5 domains to their registration and one of them didn't move right away. I called their tech support and they said we will "expedite" it. Trouble was, the name needed to be renewed on the 12th of December however there had been plenty of time to get the whole thing done even with a restart.

Well, they didn't get it done even with the "expedited service" and the name expired and my clients site is currently shut down. They are in a complete panic and I'll probably loose the account.

Getting anything out of the 1and1 customer support is absolutely impossible. They only say that it is in an expedited status and that the administrators are looking at it. I call and call and send dozens of emails and they will not say a thing about it.

So after days of this, today I get an email to reapply for transfer and it says it will take 5->7 days to get done. I kind of burned the bridge with the old registrar so now I'm begging their cooperation to get the registration renewed.

Crap!

I feel your pain with 1&1

Whenever I explain web hosting / domains / etc. to people, I say 1&1 is the equivalent of the slowest shipping speed on a site. You need to order in the beginning of December to get it by Christmas and even then, they might mess it up. But, it's dirt cheap and if you're ultra-prepared, you're fine.

I haven't moved domains away from them yet, but domains I've moved into 1&1, I do as early as 45 days before the renewal date. That way, in case the whole thing gets messed up, I have time to roll back or get stuff squared away with 1&1. Their phone support is such a mixed bag, sometimes I've gotten good service, sometimes it's awful.

1&1 is best used for personal, non-essential domains. For a business of any kind, go with another provider.