Frustration with the way the Internet is operated

Apr 06, 2005 15:35

How the frick long does it take to reassign a domain name from one registrar to another, after the old registrar has given the official okey dokey? And why the frick is the old registrar and DNS host allowed to terminate the DNS services after it no longer allows management of the domains but before the transfer has completed to allow management ( Read more... )

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mariedeblois April 6 2005, 13:30:59 UTC
This is why it's generally considered "best" to point the name servers (through the old registrar) to the name servers of the new registrar before beginning the transfer, to cut down on this kind of shenanigans. And the new host really ought to be able to set up the DNS before doing the registration transfer. That's all just lame.

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blaisedec April 6 2005, 13:45:08 UTC
My next post has more details -- suffice it to say that it's partly my fault and partly the fault of the old registrar. I wouldn't have been so peeved at Godaddy if the transfer to them from Gandi hadn't been so smooth. (While I couldn't configure the DNS at Godaddy until after the transfer had completed, Gandi's name service didn't go away for weeks.)

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sue_n_julia April 6 2005, 17:12:35 UTC
Sounds like you need to lodge a complaint to GoDaddy and whoever is overseeing their part of DNS.

S

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