Domain name registration

Sy sy1235-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 24 21:11:00 UTC 2005


On 6/21/05, Andrew Hammond <ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> If you're not married to the .com suffix, then you might want to
> consider .info. There are numerous technical advantages to the .info
> registry. It uses EPP with authentication, centralized whois, fast
> updates to zones, IDNs, and so on. You'd be supporting Afilias, a
> company that employs about 60 people in Toronto (myself included),
> supports TLUG (that's the Afilias projector Chris brings to most
> meetings), and actively contributes to free software development (Slony
> is a prominent example). Or you could throw in with Verisign.
> 
> In terms of registrars (the company that would register the name on your
> behalf with the registry), I can't officially make any recommendations,
> but I use godaddy.com personally.

It took a while to settle, but I came back to this thread to say thanks.

I'm now using no-ip.com based on another recommendation, but I'm using
.info based on this.

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