up_the_irons, arp doesn't do domain registration by chance does it
would be nice to have a domain registrar that's actually competent
I like hover.com
since that's really TUCOWS
and their prices are rock bottom, and the UI is reasonably good.
for another data point, i've used gandi.net since 2000 and they've been great
that's who I was complaining about actually
well
I don't like their new website
oh, yeah, i was just logging in and it's...interesting
but I also had a bad unrelated experience with yahoo today which is what I was complaining about when I said "actually competent"
my father bought a small business webhosting/email thing from yahoo and of course calls me and not them when he has trouble
you can still get to the old stuff via https://v4.gandi.net/
well - still marking hover.com as useable here
gandi doesn't park domains on delete I've learned and I'd hate to move everything to someone who does
that is true in my experience, and there have been plenty of times in the last 17 years i've forgotten to renew on time
I just about had to today because I couldn't find the next button to try and pay them
it's up at the top instead of at the bottom where it ought to be
they just hijack your NS records and everything returns NXDOMAIN
ah you haven't gotten as far as I've gotten once
I did eventually get to unregistered available for reregistration
icann ought to police the registrars but... doesn't