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So, about 9 years and 10 months ago, I renewed my main .com domain with Network Solutions for what seemed, at the time, to be a reasonable price - something like $200 for 10 years, if I recall correctly. A couple of years earlier, GoDaddy et. al. burst onto the (well, at least my) scene, with revolutionary low prices, etc. - not really, but they did put some competition into the industry, and maybe that's what kept NS's prices lower.
Today, NS wants $320+ to renew for 10 years, they seem to be no-option bundling their ID shield product in with the registration cost - which, maybe 20 years ago, I might have appreciated. But, since that old name and address have been published from here to kingdom come for the last 20 years, I don't actually want a private registration anymore.
Any opinions on domain registrars? Have any of them every given any normal customers any problems? NS has been "pay and forget" for 20 years now, but they're up for renewal in 2 months, and I'm wondering if I should be shopping for somebody cheaper.
[soylentnews is registered with gandi.net and as far as I know, we have had no issues with them. They have over 700 TLDs (Top Level Domains) available. If you have fewer than 45 domains to register, their "A" rates apply. This comes with: 2 mailboxes (3GB Storage; unlimited e-mail forwarding and aliases) and a free 1-year Standard SSL certificate, data privacy (100% GDPR-compliant hidden email address for whois), live DNS management, and unlimited support.
Current prices:
.org Creation: $14.95, Transfer: $14.20, Renewal: $17.20
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Friday May 24 2019, @08:43AM (11 children)
Just wondering, if one disagrees with the practices of an organisation, is a boycott a reasonable approach. So, for example, if one disagrees with Google's pervasive culture of surveillance, is it then morally sound to purchase a product from them in another sphere? Is it morally sound to deselect that organisation?
From a legal perspective, I believe that boycott is not an acceptable practice (for example when putting a large contract out for tender).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @09:20AM (7 children)
Uhhh... what? How's boycott not legal?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @11:32AM (1 child)
I hired Nikki Haley -- great looker, great Deal Maker, and very smart cookie -- to be my United Nations lady. She did a tremendous job with United Nation. Where she stood up to the bias against Israel.
And Nikki, before she came to work for me, was the Governor of SC. And she was their first woman Governor. She signed the very special law that says, you can't boycott Israel. Known as the BDS. Sounds dirty, sounds like something you do in a dungeon, right? It's not that -- don't we wish it was that? Boycott Divestment & Sanctions. Nice way of saying, anti-Semitic. She passed a law against the horrible anti-Semitic movement. Very strong move against the boycotters. Thank you, Nikki!!!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @06:18PM
(cont) By the way, SC law against boycotters passed UNANIMOUSLY. Very bipartisan!!!!
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday May 24 2019, @12:14PM (4 children)
I beleive that if one issues a large contract, laws exist regarding the tender process. If one cannot show due process then one may be open to civil proceedings. IANAL. For small stuff this isn't necessary (I can't remember where the threshold is in EU, I think it is few 1000 euros or so). I realise legal =/= moral, and I realise that big contract =/= small purchase but there is some correlation.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @08:32PM (3 children)
South Carolina, they have a magnificent law. Signed by Nikki Haley( former employee of mine). And that one makes it ILLEGAL to do business with folks that boycott "based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin." Including Jewish or Israeli. It's known as FAIRNESS!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @09:07PM (2 children)
So a legally mandated boycott of bigots... neat!
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday May 25 2019, @05:52AM (1 child)
Yes, a law making it illegal to boycott bigots. One of the things that brought down the bigots that were running S. Africa was boycotts. This law is designed to prevent stopping segregation in the future as certain countries scream that they have a religious duty to be bigots and we're bigots for not agreeing with their politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 25 2019, @08:33PM
yeah, and how'd that turn out?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 24 2019, @12:06PM (2 children)
This type of broad boycott initiative is strongly biased against large, multi-faceted companies. Sure, your little vendor hasn't done anything heinous to the Nepalese tundra mouse, yet, simply because they don't have enough of a footprint to make such compromises in the larger world where there is a choice between bringing reliable internet service to the Dalai Lama and the questionable effects of high energy microwave transmissions across the native range of the Nepalese tundra mouse.
When Deepwater Horizon blew, a lot of people boycotted BP, and I don't disagree with them for doing so. I do question the overall effectiveness of such a boycott at bringing about the desired changes in the industry. For a time, in Florida at least, all it really meant was that BP branded gas stations had to sell for $0.10 less per gallon to maintain their customer volume, and in the longer term, a lot of BP branded gas stations were simply rebranded. So, I guess the gas station rebranding vendors benefited...
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday May 24 2019, @12:24PM
> This type of broad boycott initiative is strongly biased against large, multi-faceted companies.
True. However
1. such companies have so much else going for them that the occasional anti-megacorp bias doesn't hurt.
2. Sale of pervasive surveillance intelligence is Google's business model. If torturing mice was the main business model of "Nepalese Acme corp", it would probably be okay to boycott them too.
I guess the mice are powering the microwave transmitters in tiny little wheels. Yoga powers so they never tire.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday May 24 2019, @08:33PM
Considering Internet access is a universal mammalian right, squeak for yourself, human -- my connectivity is *horrible* out near Denali. We have to go all the way into the monastery just to check our mouseMail.
-- Posted from my friend's mouseDroid