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| Thread ID: 102185 | 2009-08-10 04:33:00 | Best place to buy a .nz Domain Name | stu161204 (123) | PC World Chat |
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| 799954 | 2009-08-10 10:45:00 | I use Domains4Less, but parts of their web interface are infuriating. For example, if you want to change contact details for a domain, you can't edit the existing settings - you have to create a new "contact", and assign it to the domain. Also, there are some silly redirects - i.e. when you finish doing something, click on "Submit", or "Save", it redirects you to a page that requires several clicks to get to where you should be. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 799955 | 2009-08-13 02:37:00 | Thank you for the reply’s :) So Domains4Less is the cheapest?? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 799956 | 2009-08-13 03:15:00 | Have been using http://www.registerdirect.co.nz/ for 4 years now for work, and find them good as gold. Haven't shopped around to check pricing however. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 799957 | 2009-08-13 04:00:00 | Have been using http://www.registerdirect.co.nz/ for 4 years now for work, and find them good as gold. Haven't shopped around to check pricing however. You probably should, as you an save a lot by shopping around. domains4less maybe cheap, but I have found their control panel useless, as mentioned by someone else previously. You do get what you pay for, and it is a balance between low fees and a good powerful management console and support. You have to pay to call some of these really low cost providers, I think domains4less bill you $.99 per minute to phone them. Many also lonly provide support in business hours, so if you have a problem with your domain, your website may be down during a weekend, if you can't get hold of someone. I pay $39.95 for mine, but it comes with a control panel that has full DNS management, where I can edit ARecords and CNames. THe cheap ones don't have that problem. I also wouldn't recommend discountdomains, becuase if your domain expires accidently, eg. the reminder email they send you accidently get deliver into your junkmail folder, they can bill you a $25 late payment penalty to renew your expired domain. The middle of the road providers don't have these little addon billings, that many of the the cheap providers have. The cheap providers have these little catches, becuase they don't make much if any money on the domains, so they have to make money somewhere in order to provide support. Good knowledgable support is expensive to provide |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 799958 | 2009-08-13 04:41:00 | I also wouldn't recommend discountdomains, becuase if your domain expires accidently, eg. the reminder email they send you accidently get deliver into your junkmail folder, they can bill you a $25 late payment penalty to renew your expired domain. Which is reasonable enough if you were idiotic enough to let your domain expire ;). They also have outstanding phone support, which you *don't* have to pay for, and they don't leave you waiting on hold either - you call them and get a person almost immediately. Their control panel will let you do everything except register NS servers with the root providers (and I have yet to find *any* DNS provider who lets you do that via their control panel), and their prices are pretty reasonable - $34/year, or cheaper if you get several years at once. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 799959 | 2009-08-13 05:38:00 | Which is reasonable enough if you were idiotic enough to let your domain expire ;). Actually I have seen many peoples domains expire, becuase their spam filter incorrectly marks the email reminder that the domain registrar sends out. Or their email address changes, and they forget to contact their domain provider to change it in their systems. So it is not a case of 'letting' it expire, but a case of an email issue. People rely on those automated domain renewal reminders. I don't know of anyone who actually gets a record in their diary when their domain is due to expire, and you regually see many largish companies who accidently let their domains expire, and their website goes down for a day or so. The best domain registrars will monitor if the email they send, is sent to an email address that no longer exists, and manully contacts the client. The cheap ones won't do that. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 799960 | 2009-08-13 06:21:00 | Most email providers also won't mark reminder emails as spam. Even so, it's not the provider's responsibility if you don't know how to use a calendar. In my opinion if you let a domain expire you deserve everything you get - they're not exactly hard to keep track of. It's also worth noting that keeping your contact details correct is a contractual requirement of having a domain - the whois data must be correct. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 799961 | 2009-08-13 06:31:00 | Most email providers also won't mark reminder emails as spam. Try telling that to Yahoo Xtra email server. Their system regually marks emails from Domainz for instance, as spam, and they go directly into the junkmail folder, so never get delivered to the inbox. Even so, it's not the provider's responsibility if you don't know how to use a calendar. In my opinion if you let a domain expire you deserve everything you get - they're not exactly hard to keep track of. It's also worth noting that keeping your contact details correct is a contractual requirement of having a domain - the whois data must be correct. Absolutely, but remember that people are only human. I have clients who register domains , and many don't keep their contact details up to date. Many people simply don't remember to update everysingle thing when they update an email address or move house. Many people move to another ISP, the ISP cancels the email address. My issue with domain companies charging a large late fee, compared to the domain cost, is that for .NZ domains there is actually no additional cost in renewing an expired domain, from a normal domain. However in their terms, it implies that they are just passing on a direct cost. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 799962 | 2009-08-13 06:33:00 | That's a good point. I still think it's reasonable enough though - it may be annoying, but it's simple enough to avoid :). | Erayd (23) | ||
| 799963 | 2009-08-13 12:11:00 | $22.95 + GST = $26.00 is that correct?? | stu161204 (123) | ||
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