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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?
Allow people to upload user pictures during registration
Well that's annoying.
Spend a good chunk of time creating a module to address a need, return to the thread that's been discussing it since 2006 June to post your efforts and discover it's just been updated to report that the module has been around since 2007 November.
4GB SD card in a Nikon D50 does not work
"THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED"
I cursed the card that I picked up cheap at instead of my camera
apologies to Taiwan... the 4GB SD card (Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card) from Taiwan, and more recently Abacus 24-7 didn't work 'cause the Nikon D50 only accepts up to 2GB. Blast.
Print a full Drupal database table for debugging a site
To display an entire database table from your Drupal site's DB, this script (while quite un-Drupal) got me there quickly:
Nancy W. did a whole far more Drupalish rewrite of it – http://drupal.org/node/205347 – and included it in her site documentation module.
Switch users in Drupal without logging out for development
Ways to switch users in a Drupal site without logging out:
http://drupal.org/project/masquerade
http://drupal.org/project/impersonate
From code, not for development:
Safely Impersonating Another User
http://drupal.org/node/218104
Panels2 and Organic Groups
So you want to use drupal's Organic Groups module and Panels2 because you've heard through the grapevine that really slick and useful things can be done with the combo..
Well, here's what one of the experts has to say about it --> http://www.tejasa.com/node/160
highly recommended and very useful...
do it!
Where in the theme are the tabs printed / giving tabs to admins only
On giving View, Edit, Revision, etc. tabs to administrators only.
In Drupal, tabs are not printed by the node, but by the page. On the one hand, since views and administrative pages and anything else you can think of can have tabs, this makes sense. But on the other hand every node can have
Open external URLs in a new window
Personally and professionally I think links should open in the same tab, but some clients insist on opening external links in new tabs.
<?php
/**
* Override theme_menu_item_link
* http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_item_link/5
*/
function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {
// make external links open in new windows
Harry Slaughter joins WorkHabit
Harry Slaughter of DevBee (in fact, all of DevBee) announces he's going full time with WorkHabit. I've liked following him blog about Drupal and web work and I hope to see him help WorkHabit follow through on some of their more ambitious announced contributions to the open source community... I can identify with that!
