I second this - do not use network solutions.

If you have a domain name that expires, they take all the money from you
that they can before allowing you to reregister it, telling you that
it's a difficult process, etc, etc.

If you are trying to get someone else's expired domain they tell you
that they give people a 'grace period' and will not allow you to
register it - even if it's 6 months expired.  They will, however, offer
their 'domain watch' service which, for $75 or so, will /try/ to get the
domain for you the 'instant it becomes available'.  Of course this is no
gurantee, and they'll let as many people purchase this service for the
same domain name as are willing to do so.

The renewal mail they send you they send to all contacts in hopes of
getting someone worried who may not know that an expiration 9 months
into the future is not a big concern.  I suspect they've made harvesting
whois information a little harder so they can sell the mailing lists of
domain contacts, instead of having them freely available.

They get you coming, going, and every other way they can.

-Adam

Dan Oelke wrote:

> I'm sorry - but I can't let this one go by -
>
> PLEASE do not use Network Solutions.
> 1) They are expensive ( about 3x going rate)
> 2) They run their business in a less than respectable manner.
>
> They have pulled a number of shennagins as to how domain names are
> handled.  One of their favorites was to email people registered with
> another service about their domain expiring in an attempt to trick them
> into renewing through their service.  They just do not deserve your
> business.
>
> Please use anyone but these guys.  I can't comment on the dns2go.com
> guys, but if you need more flexibility than what your hosting provider
> gives for DNS then I've used and liked http://www.zoneedit.com/
>
> Dan
>
> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>> Well, I have a bunch of domains registered at
>> http://www.networksolutions.com and use http://www.dns2go.com for dns
>> servers. Seems to work well for me (for at least a few years now).
>>
>> Harold
>>
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations (or any thoughts at all,
>>> really) for
>>> Domain Name registration.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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