[colug-432] buying a registered domain

[Rick Hornsby]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Robert Jewell <bob at disclosed.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Chris Spackman <chris at osugisakae.com>wrote:
>>
>> Dreamhost*, I assume. I have been using them for many years with
>> no issues. But, I don't register new domains that often.
>>
>
> +1 for dreamhost as a registrar, and for convenient availability
> searching. I don't even use them for hosting, but their registrar services
> are great. And referral cash can be spent on domains.
>
>
As someone else mentioned, I always use whois(1) for my lookups.

Yes, DH is Dreamhost.

OT: I've been very, very happy with DH.  I've been with them for a little
over 7 years.  Their support is very responsive, and will provide an
appropriately technical response to a technical question.  I occasionally
use my shell account when I'm on the road (hotel wifi, coffee shop, etc)
for an SSH tunnel.  While you're technically not supposed to do that,
they've never complained.  I use my shell account to do things like keep
track of my home WAN DHCP address by writing a small file, and while that's
also technically probably not something they want me doing (they're a web
hosting provider, not a shell script provider) they've never mentioned it.

The only thing I really can't do that I wish I could is some management of
my mailman lists through the shell.  There have been times when I want to
use the python/shell commands to fetch the membership list, add/remove
people, etc.  All in all, that's a pretty minor inconvenience.

They're not the registrar of record for the particular .com I'm looking at,
but I'll probably file a lowest-priority support ticket with them to get a
registrar's take on the domain question.
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