[Coco] Finding websites was:cloud-9Tech

[gene heskett]

On Friday, December 03, 2010 05:38:34 pm Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Reverend Fuzzy
> 
> <cmayeux at msbministries.org> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> I wouldn't call $100's or even $1000 over years cheap.
> > 
> > Where have you been buying domain names? �I want to make sure I don't
> > Go there by accident. �All my domain names are running $12/year.
> 
> I think his point was that over time, it adds up.
> 
> BTW.. it seems you get what you pay for with domain registration.
> GoDaddy may be cheap but they often also seem to find reasons to hold
> your domain hostage and require money for it's release.  It's happened
> to personal friends and in our community to coco3.com.
> 
They also think they run the whole internet.  My ISP these days is shentel,
and they maintain a mail server I _could_ use, and which I do scan at 
fetchmails timed intervals.  But I don't really use it because of this in 
the fetchmail.log:

fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate
fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for /O=mail.shentel.net/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=mail.shentel.net) is not in 
the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --
sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page.
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate
fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!)

Traceing the certificate they use discloses it was issued by godaddy.com.

The 'root certs' file is updated at various intervals by pclos, and the
ICANN folks, who maintain the root certificates, do not and have never
recognized a godaddy certificate as a legit certification.  Repeated
squawks to shentel have not made the point that godaddy leaves a very
bad taste in the rest of the internets collective mouths.

I don't imagine the root certs files windows uses recognizes godaddy 
either.

AIUI, dyndns, which I use for free, is trying to sell me an upgraded
service that includes several domain names, for $12/year. Anyone needing
a web domain, such as for a group like us, should investigate the use of
dyndns for that service.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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