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- portis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+311 thing you MUST know about the linked site is, it's an advertisement.
Whatever you do, DO NOT CLICK THE LAST LINK ON THE PAGE. The site owner will get affiliate credits if you do.
***** cheap ass whore, that uses Digg to get some quick cash. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I also just noticed that the link at the bottom uses the url http://www.easydns.com/?V=domainwarning, though they use javascript to hide that, and make it show up as http://www.easydns.com/ in the browser status bar. Why tell the linked site where the click came from if not for some kickback?
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"Also, I don't like how this guy put an affiliate link at the end of his article, pretty sad."
Yeah, that struck me as borderline, if not outright, spammish. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12After reading that entire page, why should I trust the link at the very bottom? How do I know the entire page wasn't built to bring business to easydns.com ?
Question everything.. - chrisrad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I've never had issues with www.dynadot.com - small companies aren't always bad. Also, I don't like how this guy put an affiliate link at the end of his article, pretty sad.
- MoneyShot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I was going to defend the guy because a) The article was actually rather interesting and b) there's nothing wrong with him making a few bucks when he's provided me with something of value (a well written article). However, he attempts to hide the url in status bar when you mouse over the link. None of the other links in the article are hidden, which mean he went out of his way to be sneaky. Make a few bucks, fine. But be honest about it.
- portis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7BTW, buried as SPAM.
- peaches017, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Recommended: Fabulous, Domainsite
Decent: Godaddy, Namecheap (use coupons / loopholes)
AVOID: Registerfly, 1&1 - Scott_T, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The information might be useful but the link at the bottom makes it spam.
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah, the whole article read very well, but the link saying one site you "need" to go to trashed the writer's credibility. he should have had links to several registrars, mentioning the good and bad points of each.
- paroxsitic, on 11/08/2007, -1/+5I recently bought a domain with netfirms.com because of the nice one year $4.95 .com domains. However, upon getting the domain I found out a lot of hidden extras and such. They also didn't have wildcarded A DNS records so I contacted them asking for a refund within 48 hours and they granted me it no questions asked.
- ryanchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I use godaddy, used them before diggnation. I bought one domain and they called me, asked me how I was, what I was going to use the domain for, etc... So I'll always use them now.
- MoneyShot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I never use the DNS included with either a web host or a domain registrar. I use three seperate companies so can more easily move my services if someone pisses me off. Trying to change to a different web host, DNS host, and domain registrar all at the same time is a major PIA.
That, plus, DNS hosts like http://www.zonedit.com offer the ability to add extra nameservers, ETRN (secondary MX records, which means your mail doesn't bounce if you server goes down), and manually edit every little detail of your records. IIRC, ZoneEdit lets you host one or two domains for free. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@nullmind
The link they provide is to http://www.easydns.com/?V=domainwarning. The parameter tells the easydns site who referred the traffic to them - in this case domainwarning. They use javascript to try to hide the parameter (view the html source). Why the sneaky? - mattrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is a interesting article, but it is advertising, the domain, domainwarning.com is owned by easydns.
Domain Name: DOMAINWARNING.COM
Registrar: EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Whois Server: whois.easydns.com
Referral URL: http://www.easydns.com
Name Server: NS6.EASYDNS.NET
Name Server: NS3.EASYDNS.ORG
Name Server: REMOTE2.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: REMOTE1.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: NS2.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: NS1.EASYDNS.COM
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 12-Sep-2006
Creation Date: 29-Jun-2006
Expiration Date: 29-Jun-2007
The registrar is basically the owner of the domain. Nice ad campaign guys. - justinnumbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is this a commercial for easy dns? spam? digg advertising? or simply an educational article like "5 Ways to Lose Weight Now!" for more information about weight loss see (whatever) weight loss site dot com!
techpimp knows what's up! - Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's what I was wondering too. While I dont know any good registrars, I do know the one i've been using. They have done alot of stuff on the list (including selling all of my info and parking my domains) but they never try to charge me extra for anything. So I keep using them.
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been using register.com for a number of years - it's certainly not the cheapest registrar ($25/yr?), but their service has been very good, the web interface for working with domains works well, and they provide a decent DNS service as well.
Although the article does point-out the downsides to using a 3rd party "security" service to hide your whois info, I consider it money well-spent to avoid the hassles of online spam, as well as a decent measure of obfuscation for people who might take more personal offence to my online opinions and postings. I'm not naive enough to think that it's infallible, but it helps to some extent. - Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2However they are IMO, the worst hosting providers ever.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree.
I switched from Godaddy (which I hated). Namecheap has been great so far. Fast, friendly support, clean website, whoisguard. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Paying $25 a year is downright ridiculous. The most you should EVER pay is $9/year for a .com
I used register.com about 5 years ago? That was when I didn't know any better. - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Crap, I accidentally dugg your comment down instead of up. Burying it as spam as well.
- nullmind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't know what you're flipping out about. The article is good, offers a lot of good tips on how to avoid being screwed with your domain name, and at the end they provide one small discrete link to a good DNS service. This is a *good* example of honest advertising.
- blackangel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2by the way, if he wanted to do it sneaky, why not do something with HTTP_REFERER?
- Whodoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did a renewal of a domain name I picked just for laughs and the extras hidden in there ranged into a few hundred dollars!
Going through the screens for renewal, they kept defaulting to add every extra. It took me a while to figure out how to get my $4.95 domain name renewed for a price near $4.95.
- Nerys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at $25 a pop I dont think so I would go broke fast
Godaddy. Great for domain names all open all user controlled (no gotcha's so far)
Godaddy for hosting. RUN run FAR AWAY and FAST they SUCK. I hate godaddy hosting. - TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that is a bit naughty. nice article though
I got a couple of domains from Godaddy after watching to much Diggnation (is there such thing as too much) Anyhoo not sure what to do with them I suppose I need some hosting then I can stick a page up? - will have to go have a look - paidhima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty obviously it's an advertisement. Even if you don't bother looking at the bottom of the page. It reminds me a lot of car insurance or auto shop commercials: "You don't want to get caught with a bad oil change, or the kind of bad service you'd get from those *other guys*." And yet they don't actually say what other guys. That's the first thing that struck me. It's not a serious, investigative article. It's an ad, very simply.
Of course, that doesn't mean it has no merit. Just because the whole thing is a mildly disguised advertisement doesn't mean there's no good information.. - tomi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I originally dugg this because I didn't notice the last link at first, but after reading the comments, and then finding the author deliberately tried to hide the referral code, I immediately undugg it.
*shakes head*
Pathetic. - Snyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What don't you like about GoDaddy for hosting? I'm curious. I haven't had any issues yet, but then again I don't use it for anything major.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is why its good to have a friend thats a domain registrar that can register domains for you 100% free, *and* gives you free hosting. Small hidden fees? Nope :)
Friend: >Go ahead and ring in your transaction to generate the invoice, then I'll zero it out
5 minutes later...
Email: >Congratulations, we've recieved your payment of $500 and your domain is now active! - Phssthpok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[[#5 is incorrect. Having whois privacy masks your real info, it does not truly replace it. You still retain complete legal ownership.]]
No actually it's just as he said.
[[in the eyes of the domain Registry ... whoever is listed in the domain whois ... is the legal owner of the domain name]]
As a matter of fact ICANN insists that information in the WHOIS be accurate. So it is a matter of trust. Now if the people who do this service play fair then you're OK if not then you're screwed. I always keep my registrar and my hosting companies different for just this reason. I control the domain. I also use Gandi.net which runs out of France. They are cheap and they make it clear in the paperwork that you own the domain. - trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I sure got a fright when i got apparent bills for the domain that my webhost were supposed to handle. I soon found out it was a scam, however that is the first time I've experienced IRL spam. Pictures of the mail from droa: http://trylleklovn.net/stuff/droa/
- Noloco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hostforweb here no problems.
- irregardless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As long as we're all plugging things, I concur. Namecheap is pretty smooth.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to work for a very well known domain registrar, and ICANN knows the difference. If it were as you say, then privacy would be illegal and ICANN would revoke every domain that has it.
- joxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1buried for spam too - was a also a boring read.
- plasma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those who know use gandi.
- jamble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1buried .. spamola
- nicktripp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buried as spam. Though some of it may be useful, it's still just an ad.
- Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1godaddy has always been great to me, i know i can buy a domain name from them and not have any problems with it.
now i cant say i've ever used them for dns or hosting so i really cant speak to that effect, but as a domain registrar, they are top notch. i think if you're only paying like 10 bucks a year for a name, you really shouldnt try and go cheap. i mean, who cant afford 10$ a year? - maldrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Spam, and EASY DNS sucks ass.
$25 a year just to park?!!
I've used them before, $55 US a year for domain and DNS, give me a break. It's a total rip off.
I'm not going to recommend them by name, but I use a major register and get all the DNS services I need, for $3 US a year! - nullmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@blackangel
EasyDNS doesn't use HTTP_REFFERER, the ID is passed as an argument in the URL ($_GET) - carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i agree, it kept striking me as odd that the author didn't mention the names of any of these potentially malicious registrars when the point of the article was to inform. i guess easydns or whatever didn't want to be sued by the other registrars for putting out an "article" that slandered them
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1#5 is incorrect. Having whois privacy masks your real info, it does not truly replace it. You still retain complete legal ownership. Usually, there will be a generated email address appearing on the WHOIS, and any emails sent to that address gets forwarded to whatever actual email address the owner has on file with the company from whom they bought the privacy service.
- MarkHarrison, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1> The information may be useful but the advert at the end makes it spam
So, by this logic "Desparate Housewives" and "Buffy" were spam?
I've heard them called many things before, but not "spam" :-) - Aliyaho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a big advertisement...
Brilliantly done though, haha. you need THESE guys. nice. - philz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why do they need to know about such things?
- gappodi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmm, interesting findings.
Luckily the one I use was the cheapest and never charged an extra dime for all those services mentioned in the article. http://www.netteem.com/ - lizardboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One of my friends registered a domain with easyDNS, (he didn't know any better). Anyways, when I went to change his registrar I noticed that the parking page he's paying for actually gives a link to this site. Maybe that simple fact should be brought into consideration. Getting your EPP code also takes forever with them.
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