Did anyone out here hear of a IP charge for a nameserver.
I canceled a year ago and went thru Network solutions to delete that ip and I thought all this time it was. Well now Dialtoneinternet send me a email for a $100 per month for the IP address. Any ideas out here what I can do? I purchased the raq from them at the end of the one year contract and even talked to them on the phone.

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I got the same bill for 2 name servers that i canceled months and months ago when we moved to our data center. all of a sudden its $100 a month per ip and my registrar shows the name servers arent registered! AVOID DIaltone LIKE THE PLAGUE! They use sCAMS with bandwidth, 1 server reported <50g of bw transfer yet they chraged us for 100g (at $3 a gig) AFTER our 65g limit!

Did you pay them the $100 a month or ?

no I got the bill this past friday (nice to let me know about the charges still accumulating months later) - Must call billing tomorow in the Am AND AND AND We sold our company to someone else who would do the billing and they bug me about it and not him. They are like a bad rash, they DONT GO AWAY!

We even once had a 24 HOUR DOWNTIME because they placed BAD RAM INTO OUR SYSTEM and THEY didnt know until we alerted them hours later. AVOID THEM

Well I got my email yesterday and I need to talk to them too.
If I need to pay this it will be over $1300.00 for nothing.

Any body thinking about using the BEWARE.

It seems very odd that they decide to wait months and months while i'm racking up a $100 fine each month PER IP (2 ips) to tell me that i have not unregistered it when i HAVE.

If you have any domain names out there that are still using your nameservers (ex-customers or whatever) - you can't disable those nameservers/IPs.

We have 2 nameservers/IPs that aren't even pointing to a server anymore...but because about 122 ex-customers' domains are still pointing to them (long after their hosting accounts have been cancelled), we are forced to keep the nameservers and IPs.

That's from the registrar, not from our upstream. The registrars force those nameservers to be active as long as their are domains pointing to them.

--Tina

Im sure you can change the ips a name server is using though cant you?

Yes, but if the nameservers aren't being used (the 122 domains pointing to them aren't live) - I'm still going to needlessly be paying for 2 IPs.

--Tina

yeah but you could get 2 ips on another server for much much less that $100/month

Of course. Fortunately, I don't have to pay that much - just a fraction of that amount, actually.

--Tina

I'm confused, and maybe I didn't read carefully enough here, but why can't the last provider just remove the name servers/zone files from their DNS servers and unbind the IP's or something? Why can't they do that on their end?

As far as I know, from what my upstream tells me, they can't reuse or disable IPs that are currently in use. openSRS won't delete 2 nameservers that we are currently NOT using and AREN'T pointing to anything because 122 domain names still have those nameservers listed...even though the domain names aren't resolving to anything, because the nameservers aren't pointing to anything.

In their words "You just have to wait until these 122 domains either expire or update to point elsewhere."

--Tina

Wow, that's odd. I mean, I am not sure why they'd keep track of or care if your domains didn't point to a correct IP, since it won't matter or work from the privoder's end anyway. I've never personally used any openRS and only have ever registered domains and name servers with the likes of Networksucklutions and register.com, so I suppose it might be different. If you're paying for the name servers anyway and have to have them set at the registrar, maybe you can have some IP forwarding option on it, so point to your server/host you have and at least display some default page? Or, is that just for the two IP's and you're not paying much because they aren't housing any zone's for those domains anyway?

Boy, that's strange they'd do that, when the name server isn't up anyway. If you care about that or the domains, I'd look into it and see what you can do. Of course, if you don't care about the domains and it's not much, I guess it might not be worth the effort. How much of an effort is it to change those 122 domains to point to another name server, even if it's just some off the wall one you can choose? Maybe I can take 122 domains off your hands if you don't want them. *L*

No, you're misunderstanding the 122 domains. These are 122 ex-customer domains. These customers have either not paid for or cancelled their hosting accounts - and have basically just abandoned these domains. There were about 100 more domains, at one time, but we've managed to move these customers to newer servers or they've moved on to other hosting companies.

Meanwhile, I have these 122 domains pointing to nameservers that are pointing to a non-existant server (ns1 and ns2.whitelakeweb.com). I want openSRS to delete these two nameservers, so that I don't have to continue to pay for the two IPs that are pointing to them...granted it's only costing me $48 per year for these IPs, but it just irks me that openSRS won't just delete the damn nameservers. I mean, these domains are all dead anyway!!!

--Tina

Oh, okay, I got ya! So... arson? Sorry, just trying to come up with a solution... they aren't always the best at first.