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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:00:42PM -0500, Paul A. wrote: | The openSRS part is always easy, within seconds you get a notify email from | openSRS. Once you agree to the opensrs's registrar transfer, you will then | get a netsol email. It takes about one day to get netsol's email and about | 2-3 days to transfer registrars from openSRS to netsol. This ofcourse is if | netsol is not dropping the ball. | | I had cases where I never got an email from netsol. The good thing is you | can follow every step on openSRS's interface and resubmit the transfer, | without having to type it all up again, until netsol gets the hint. According to the OpenSRS page, they are doing wholesale registration only, requiring doing business with a reseller. The big reason I don't like this is because it adds yet another layer between me and the actual registry. It's bad enough that you have to deal with a business that might in some problem cases have to deal with a different one on your behalf (registrar to registry). But with this arrangement it adds the reseller layer. I went to the OpenSRS referral page and got the first 3 referrals. None of them worked (various technical problems with web servers or HTML). One didn't even display any content. I'm not impressed. I've also examined several actual registrar web sites and encountered many problems. Not all the problems prevented use. One of the sites I remember did work, but they had many layout and format errors. But that instills no confidence. The big reason for that is my experience with Register.Com which went from just having some goofy page layout errors to having actual technical flubs that made things not work (and then a failure of support to even get the issues addressed). That's why I moved everything away from Register.Com. Price was not a factor for me. I did find one registrar that not only had a cleanly formatted (and simple, too, which counts) site, but the service logic actually worked. They were not the cheapest around, but I consider registering a domain as something which is too important to rely on the lowest bidder for. So I went with DomainDiscover.Com. I examined many registrars, but not all of them. I limited myself to those in the United States. Some outside the USA may be just as good or even better but that wasn't considered for my needs. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | phil-nospam@ipal.net | Texas, USA | http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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