Okay, I'm officially confused...
Sep. 14th, 2003 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I'm doing the web page for the Pern group I used to be in and which wants to resurrect itself, and I want to buy it a domain name, telgar5.org. However, when I go to the site I bought annathepiper.org from, i.e., Network Solutions, it claims that telgar5.org is not available. But I can't get it to come up in a web browser, nor can I ping it or whois it or nslookup it. Same thing happened when I tried telgarweyr.org. Does anybody know any reason why Network Solutions might be confused on the matter of .org domains?
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Date: 2003-09-14 01:29 pm (UTC)I tried to find a good, all-registrars whois server, and Google suggested a couple of possibilities — Better Whois and Allwhois — but at the moment neither one actually returns any result when I try doing a lookup on grumer.org.
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Date: 2003-09-14 01:34 pm (UTC)Wait, now it’s just spinning forever and giving no result again. Man, you just can’t get decent whois service anymore.
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Date: 2003-09-14 01:46 pm (UTC)Anyway, you should’t be using NetSol; they’re expensive and crappy. I’ve been getting better service for less money from Dotster and 000Domains.
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Date: 2003-09-14 07:11 pm (UTC)Later when I checked back they said it WAS, so I scarfed it. And WOW are they cheaper than Network Solutions. $27.95 for a two year registration, vs. $30 PER YEAR for two years at Network Solutions. That's one hell of a saving. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Date: 2003-09-14 08:42 pm (UTC)(which is probably not a bad idea seeing as how the dollar is probably going to fall a bit against the euro)
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Date: 2003-09-23 10:01 pm (UTC)Heh. And now that I've moved off of Network Solutions I've started getting paper mail from other registrars trying to encourage me to switch to them. ;p
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Date: 2003-09-24 12:51 am (UTC)in other words, no, unless you have a really strange credit card.
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Date: 2003-09-25 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-14 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-14 07:14 pm (UTC)Apparently now the .Org domain is being administered by the folks at pir.org, and you have to go there to do whois lookups on .org now. But buying .org domain names in theory is supposed to be still working the same, so there seems to be at least a little shakiness between the PIR folks and the registrars.
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Date: 2003-09-17 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-17 12:31 pm (UTC)