I stumpled across this website today:

www.dnbuy.com

They also give you the option to make payment via paypal.

They seem to throw in a lot of other free features too.

Anybody heard of them or have experience with them?

I took a look and I agree that they look OK. But, I guess that prompts me to ask:

Where does it end? There are so many registrars, resellers, etc. It seems that we've sort of reached the saturation point. How does one even decide?

I have to admit... After a couple of real bummer experiences with registrars in the beginning (high prices, misleading claims, lack of features), I settled with directNIC and was very happy. Then comes along a new group of discount registrars (Namecheap, Stargage, Godaddy, etc). I tried a couple and have settled on Namecheap.

But it doesn't stop there. Every day there's a new registrar or reseller on the market. Some good, some bad.

Umm, does this post have a point? Hmm, not sure. I started out with something in mind, but it seems to have leaked out of my ears.

So let me ask a real general question (and perhaps in the process change the topic of this thread, sorry)...

What are your thoughts on the proliferation of registrars and domain options? Is this good for us? After all competition generally works to the consumers' benefit. Or does it just cause confusion? That is, causing the consumer to make mistakes, get duped, waste money, etc.

Looking at the features and price they sound like an enom reseller

Would you all consider 8-8.5$ a good price with enom's DNS hosting?

Cheers
Balaji

Originally posted by MotleyFool
Would you all consider 8-8.5$ a good price with enom's DNS hosting?Hey Balaji, so we meet again :-)

Yes, I think enom's DNS hosting is a great feature. To tell the truth, I only just now realized that they offered this. But, now that I know they have it, I'm going to try it out. I was looking all over for a free DNS host service since I wanted to use it as a backup for my DNS server hosted on my own server. However I wasn't happy with any of the free offerings, or rather, I was afraid to try them.

Now, I'll give the enom DNS server a try and see how it goes. I'm debating which is better: for me to use my own DNS server (hosted on my box), or to use the enom DNS server. Guess the only way I'll know is to try it. Does anyone have any comments on this? Tradeoffs, advantages, disadvantages, etc.

DID YOU KNOW??


LOL... that you can use enoms DNS services, even if your domain is with another registrar.. it's quite cheap, but probably cheaper to just transfer your domain to them.. BUT, it's still possible..

Hey Abu,

Yes we meet again! :)

and I am still getting my manual for you ready ... apologies! I am plain lazy thats the fact.

Actually what I posted in the other thread seems to be not accurate [about using access.enom.com to use your domain DNS]

I use 123domainregistry.com and Indian reseller of enom [charges me 8$] and he lets me use enom that way.

But I registered a domain with namecheap and the DNS thru namecheap seems to be hosted by enom

There are 2 major advantages about using enom's DNS

1. 5 distributed servers so 100% DNS uptime [so you will never lose email addressed to your domain even if the mail server is down ]

2. you can easily move from server to server

I cant see any downside to it

Cheers
Balaji

Balaji hi,

Originally posted by MotleyFool
and I am still getting my manual for you ready ... apologies! I am plain lazy thats the fact. Ahhh, I forgot all about that. But now that you remind me, I'll hold you to it. :-)

Actually what I posted in the other thread seems to be not accurate [about using access.enom.com to use your domain DNS]I discovered that. I tried it with one enom reseller and it worked, but it didn't work with Namecheap. That's OK, because there's really nothing wrong with Namecheaps pages.

There are 2 major advantages about using enom's DNS

1. 5 distributed servers so 100% DNS uptime [so you will never lose email addressed to your domain even if the mail server is down ]
2. you can easily move from server to serverHmm, I see what you mean. This actually sounds pretty good. I'm going to have to try this out on one of my domains and see how it works. Definitely a reason to move my non-enom names to enom (Namecheap) if this works out alright.

Thanks Balaji. Take care.