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Domain Name Registrars
New option, new registrar reselling through Drak.net's provider: http://www.domainspricedright.com/ Nope, bad:
This afternoon, WildWest Domains (GoDaddy) refused to cancel us at the end of our billing period for the services in June, and instead canceled as of that very moment. "Domains Priced Right" is GoDaddy. It's their reseller account that they merge people into after their reseller account is "abandoned".
Apparently, they were not all that enthusiastic regarding the reason we were leaving.
It was quite an...ah... enlightening conversation. :)
No, I think it was vindictive - We paid $229.00 for the super reseller thingy a year, so they kept $40 of the money we directly paid them and nuked the service early. Then we got around $100 a month in commission because we had quite a number of folks on there, and we priced it pretty low since that was the purpose of getting the Interface, and they'll keep that couple of hundred dollars as well.
Yeppers, all in all, pretty unethical, but not unexpected considering their reputation. They're a hard sell, shove it down your throat, our way or the highway kind of company, and it's pretty well known that ceasing to do business with them is not really something that they like.
So, $250 lost, lesson learned, and I know what registrar I won't recommend to anyone. :)
Current domain name registrar:
1&1 ~$6/year but I don't think they extend a year when you transfer in? In any case, the price is to draw people in and get them to buy cheap, but terrible, hosting services. Just doesn't seem sustainable...
Best Bets
From going through the "list of ICANN accredited registrars" in alphabetical order:
- BlueRazor ~$7.25 -- they don't do bulk management/discounts at this time
- Second Tier from ICANN list:
- FoxEdge.com ~$7
- Answerable - tried, terrible control panel, ~$6.99 (looks like a reseller)
Note: tons on the iCANN list are fronts for snapdomains and Namescout.
Other Options
- DrakNet Domains - $8.80 a year ( http://www.draknetdomains.com/ )
- Nearly Free Speech - $7.50; they're actually reselling from Public Domain Registry, which is a front for ResellerClub.com, a Directi business (as is Answerable); the best it gets, at $3,000 up front, is $6.49 for a regular domain.
- OpenWebSource.com ~$8.88 - right cause, but I think just a reseller for myorderbox.com
Investigated and Unsuitable
- GKG.net - no services whatsoever, forwarding or even assigning DNS records costs extra. "Host elsewhere" is allegedly free, so this may be an option for VPS hosted sites where we manage the nameserver.
- ResellOne (Everyone's Internet) ~$6.50 -- put down a huge deposit to get that rate, and their interface, the technology on their own site, was so bad I wouldn't trust them with a dime.
Tried and Evil
- Active-Domain
- Getting evil: DomainSite.com
Do it ourselves
- Figure out what's involved
- Get ICANN accredited
- Promote the development of open source registrar software
- Is TDomain manager what we seek?
- Or any of these Address Management links?
Figuring out the HTML code to generate and the CSS to use for placing CCK fields in the corners of a textfield
Text outputs as:
win win win
Gathering the data needed to abuse field formatters-- disable and combine and change per node settings set by user
For old times sake... this is one of the last outputs like this before I use a properly integrated development environment, Eclipse PDT (for PHP) with xdebug, which will show all the variables without the Drupal set messaging and such.
Field_placement displaying using CCK field formatters
Too-true Typo of the Week: the wanders of unit testing
The too-true typo of the week, from Kyle Mathews' Unit Testing Success Story:
The Lullabot crew had a recent podcast on the wanders of unit testing.
The wanders, indeed.
Drupal is a Do-ocracy
In response to (and crossposted from my comment on) Drupal Community Philosophies by Angie Byron:
One matter of terminology:
Automatically making connections
Just a quick post to note that the Facebook functionality where when you type in a URL it instantly finds if there's a Facebook group with that web site is pretty cool.
It puts a little too much information about the group right embedded in your post, but still a very cool connection-maker (or re-enforcer).
Boston Indymedia design notes and models
Models
Checking out your contributed module from CVS to work on it more
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:agaric@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d term_message contributions/modules/term_message
This was a module with a dead head, so I also had to do this (I could have put the -r DRUPAL-5 into the above command immediately after the checkout).
Ebony-II:term_message ben$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-5
cvs update: Updating .
U term_message.info
Adding content that will appear in the perfect spot
Because skilled web developers set it up that way.
Agaric wants easy listing of a site's enabled Drupal modules including missing modules
Agaric wants our sites to generate a list of enabled modules.
Update: So we made an enabled modules module.
We want each enabled module to be listed even if the module code isn't there. This is convenient when moving messy sites.
