A quest for identity
Feb. 1st, 2009 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayOnce upon a time there was a woman named Patricia Bray. She had her own business, and owned the website www.patriciabray.com.
Surprisingly, this woman was not me. This Patricia Bray lived in California and ran a business consulting service. For someone who'd grown up thinking my name was rare, this proved to be a shock. But I recovered, and kept my eye on her domain registration record. When it expired in 2003 and the waiting period elapsed, I registered the domain. Voila and instead of directing folks to www.sff.net/people/patriciabray I could now tell them that I was patriciabray.com. Which may make the dozens of other Patricia Bray's out there somewhat unhappy, but I digress.
When the domain came up for renewal in 2005, I made sure I did so well ahead of the deadline. As I did in 2007. In mid-January my service provider reminded me that I had 60 days to renew the domain, so I signed on to do so this morning. Only to discover that the service provider had spun itself off into a new entity, and the price for domain registration was now significantly higher than quoted in the email. To the point of being ridiculous, since all I'm paying for is registry and mail forwarding from a single email account.
So now I have to hunt up a new domain registry service, since there's no point in continuing to use this one. Does anyone have a service that they like and recommend? I don't need hosting, just simple registry.
Surprisingly, this woman was not me. This Patricia Bray lived in California and ran a business consulting service. For someone who'd grown up thinking my name was rare, this proved to be a shock. But I recovered, and kept my eye on her domain registration record. When it expired in 2003 and the waiting period elapsed, I registered the domain. Voila and instead of directing folks to www.sff.net/people/patriciabray I could now tell them that I was patriciabray.com. Which may make the dozens of other Patricia Bray's out there somewhat unhappy, but I digress.
When the domain came up for renewal in 2005, I made sure I did so well ahead of the deadline. As I did in 2007. In mid-January my service provider reminded me that I had 60 days to renew the domain, so I signed on to do so this morning. Only to discover that the service provider had spun itself off into a new entity, and the price for domain registration was now significantly higher than quoted in the email. To the point of being ridiculous, since all I'm paying for is registry and mail forwarding from a single email account.
So now I have to hunt up a new domain registry service, since there's no point in continuing to use this one. Does anyone have a service that they like and recommend? I don't need hosting, just simple registry.
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Date: 2009-02-01 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-02-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(Ask me about the skill and ingenuity it takes to generate an *invalid* SSL certificate)
I'm playing the "how cheap can I make it" game with DNS registrations, which I don't advise, and will stop soon myself. That said, Dreamhost.com offers domains for the pretty standard $10/yr. Free if you host your site with them. As a matter of precaution, I recommend *not* using the same provider for hosting and DNS. That way, if you decide to stop using the hosting services, no one can hold your domain name hostage... (been known to happen)
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Date: 2009-02-02 02:44 am (UTC)I'll probably give GoDaddy a try, I've checked them out and the price is good and they look fairly simple to deal with.
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Date: 2009-02-01 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-02-01 03:42 pm (UTC)The one and only problem I've ever had is that, since they're located in France, now and then my credit card company decides that buying something from Europe via the internet must be a sign of fraud, so now I get a one-use credit card number from the cc company and they no longer care.
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Date: 2009-02-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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