registrar

Alternative to godaddy

Today I've noticed that godaddy dropped 40$ on my card without getting any confirmation from my side. That was the last drop (well not the Drop, the whaterfall). After all of the stuff it was trying to push me to buy I give up, I can't stand them any longer. :) So - Are there any clean, simplistic and reliable domain registrars out ther...

How does domain registration works?

I searched Google and Wiki a lot, but I could't find answers for these questions. 1) What exactly registrar company do? They update an root DNS and set there IP of my DNS? 2) How come the registrar can update records in the root DNS? How did they get this priviledge? How could I get this priviledge too? 3) What exactly we pay the regi...

Recommendations for domain name registrar with API-support

I'm building a web application that needs to register domain names programmatically. What domain name registrars with API support fulfill the following requirements: Supports .COM Ideally cheap Reliable, trustworthy and should been so over an extended period of time What API-supporting domain name registrars have you used? What are ...

How can I use Ruby to check if a domain exists?

Something along the lines of: def domain_exists?(domain) # perform check # return true|false end puts "valid!" if domain_exists?("example.com") ...

Domain name transfer between registrars

Hi, We frequently take over the domain names of our clients when we take over the management of their site. Normally the transfer progress goes fine. However sometimes we have issues with DNS settings during the transfer progress as the transfer involves moving the DNS records to our registrars nameservers. It seems to be that the outg...