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Subject: Re: Host for chess site

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:13:52 04/05/03

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On April 05, 2003 at 15:17:11, Jon Dart wrote:

>Whatever you do, I'd suggest that you register your own domain name so that you
>can later switch hosting providers without any disruption to your users. Dotster
>(http://www.dotster.com) has an inexpensive registration service. There are
>others.

I would recommend not using register.com to register your domain names. For your
"convienience" they automatically renew your domain name for a few years (and
for a couple of hundred dollars).

I had created and maintained a website for a group of friends for a while, and
the "group" disbanded and the website was no longer needed. Many months later I
was charged for the renewal. I'm sure it was in the hundreds of pages of fine
print I didn't read.

In addition to that, they prey on the lack of technical knowledge of their
registrants. I recall that after I registered they "recommended" that I use a
particular host (who had their hand in register.com's pocket, no doubt), and
when I went to change the DNS and IP for the domain, I got a bunch of "We won't
have control of your website so I hope you know what you're doing! You may be
screwing up big time!" kind of warnings.

An all around corrupt operation if you ask me.



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