[TriLUG] Namecheap renewal fees

[Alan Porter via TriLUG]

> Godaddy is pricy for some things but their DNS management tools are 
> really top notch IMHO.

This is actually one of the reasons I left GoDaddy.  I felt like I could 
not do a simple DNS change without navigating through a maze of tacky 
ads, and when I finally made it through that gauntlet, the basic web 
interface for managing DNS was very slow.

Today, I use namecheap for all of my domain registrations, and I manage 
their DNS records at Linode.  That means the only interaction I have 
with namecheap DNS is setting their nameservers to "custom DNS" and 
listing Linode's 4 nameserver addresses (ns[1-4].linode.com).

I like to tell people that there are three completely separate services 
that you need in order to be on the internet, and they do not have to be 
provided by the same company.

* domain registration
* DNS for the domain
* an actual host

Alan