[HCoop-Discuss] Registrar Suggestions for *everyone*

[Nathan Kennedy]

I know most folks here don't need more reasons not to use GoDaddy, but in
case you're living under a rock their CEO has literally gone to Zimbabwe
to shoot an elephant and released a macho video of the kill and him
proclaiming himself savior of the impoverished local farmers.

In fact while he claims he killed an aggressive older bull one elephant
expert believes it was actually a young female from the released
photos/footage.*

This is not particularly against hunting in general but his entire
unapologetic behavior in this episode reeks of the worst type of
over-privileged exploitation and environmental ignorance.

I don't have any particular endorsements but an offer out there right now
is NameCheap, which has $2.99 registrations and through midnight tonight
is offering $4.99 transfers from GoDaddy and giving $1 of that to Save the
Elephants, so if you have any old GoDaddy domains hanging around that's a
good way to get them switched out right now.

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/

Also thanks to all the HCoop admins and volunteers for keeping it running.

-Nathan

*See, e.g.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/parsons-elephant-killing-110404.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/04/04/exp.piers.morgan.godaddy.ceo.cnn


> I can't speak against Joker other than to suggest that you may wish
> to check out Registration Technologies. I've been happy with them
> since 2003. Domain name transfers to and from have been just
> fine. Here's their FAQ
>
>     http://www.registrationtek.com/regtek-faq.htm
>
> Registration Technologies is a wee it more expensive than Joker:
> $15 vs $12 for a .net name. They're based in Rhode Island so support
> would be in the timezone of many of the hcoop admins. They'll serve as
> your whois envoy so your contact information doesn't get spread around
> quite as much.
>
> Thanks for all the great work the board and admins render to keep
> hcoop alive and kicking,
>
> -- Jesse Shumway  <layline AT hcoop.net>
>
> On Mar 27, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> We are *finally* transferring ownership of hcoop.net from Adam
>> Chlipala
>> to HCoop itself, and as such we need to choose a registrar. Since this
>> involves HCoop getting into a long term agreement with another
>> entity it
>> seemed reasonable to ask everyone what they thought.
>>
>> I'm a fan of Joker and am inclined to go with them unless anyone else
>> has anything to say.
>>
>> So, what are your opinions?
>>
>> --
>> Jessie: i stuck the phone antenna up the dogs nose and he ignored me
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