Please pardon the off topic post but last month some people on this list
were wondering about "Friendly Registrars" after what happened to
"Fyodor" (of nmap fame) with is seclists.org domain being shut down by
godaddy.
godaddy and registerfly have really cheap vale resaler possiblilites,
and now you know why... I'd not trust them with anything that
can not be replace, for instance I might by a one year ssl cert, but
worse case that can be replaced, unlike a domain name in dispute....
Opensrs/Tucows has been around a long time, but their wholesale
cost, $10.25, is more than retail by registerly/godaddys and all those
others with questionable terms..
They have been very reputable in how they register and expire domains.
(maybe because they are in canada...)
But it appears to be worth spending the extra two bucks per year per
domain even though with hundereds of domains it can add up, but
several screwed customer can cost lots more.
I know someone who used register.com which was not cheap, got
their name sold to someone else before the expire date, and
the domain speculator quoted a price just less than legal action
to buy it back..... so for even the more expensive registers some
of the terms seem to be used to scam!
Has anyone heard of excessive evil from opensrs?
if not, and if you have a biz and maintain say,
fifty or more domains, it may
be worth doing all the forms and the $100 deposit to use them
wholesale... else I am sure like me, there are many consultants
who use openbsd who are also value added resalers for opensrs.
