domain providers

[Ian Spray]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:58:48PM +0000, b nicolson wrote:
> I'm thinking of signing up to 1&1 for their email services. What I'd like to know
> is: 
> 
> Are they any good?
>
Hmm, good question.  I've known people to use them (for webhosting) and 
have billing issues with them - in one case they didn't stop when the 
service was cancelled (card payment) and in the other they sent very 
demanding letters instead of just stopping the service (paid by cheque).

Having said that (looking at your email addy), they're way better than 
my time with uk2.net many moons ago, when they grabbed a domain I'd 
searched on a few times and not bought (an unlikely name, although it 
*could* have been coincidence that another uk2 user also wanted it) plus 
they used to have a nasty charge for migrating name registrations away 
from them.

I gave up on all this a decade ago and hosted it all myself, but I'd be 
very tempted to use Google's mail service with my own domain name if I 
was starting from scratch again now.

TTFN,
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Ian Spray
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