Why is the domain industry so shady? Not just one or two players, but pretty much the whole industry. It makes it really frustrating to find a good vendor. It shouldn't be like the porn industry. Domain names are just a matter of a database entry, using decades-old technology. It should be boring, cut&dried, and a commodity by now. Jeremy On Thursday 25 March 2010 7:46:37 pm Erik Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using Name.com as my domain registrar, and they provide all of my > > DNS with the registration, and I've been very happy with their service > > so far. (No barrage of ads or other nonsense - just to the point.) I > > don't believe they have any of the kinds of limits you referenced, and > > the prices vary by TLD and are quite reasonable. A number of years > > ago I used a free DNS-only service called ZoneEdit, which is still > > around. That was limited in number of domains and/or subdomains in > > some way - I don't remember the specifics. > > I also use name.com for domain registrations. I used their DNS service > for a couple short weeks until I discovered that they choose to do > NXDOMAIN hijacking on invalid subdomains. After discovering that, I > promptly pointed my DNS over to linode's DNS service. I had an account > there and get free DNS hosting along with it if I choose. I've been > much happier with that service than with name.com's.