Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:04:09 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: register now, pay later, for a domain? Message-ID: <3980DC09.D8CD0353@nisser.com> References: <39809854.4371.22E5CDD8@localhost> <20000727214252.A43574@keltia.freenix.fr> <20000728091206.B36172@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 27 July 2000 at 21:42:53 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Dan Langille: > >> Does anyone know a domain registrar where I can register the domain > >> now and pay later? > > > > AFAIK none of the current registrars support this. NSI used to but moved to a > > credit card based system and all later registars adopted the same schema > > because they're pre-buy domains to NSI. > > I think it's very unlikely that there will be one. Some US film > makers were apparently registering film names in advance, putting up a > web site, then closing down before they ever got round to paying. Same here - The Netherlands, that is. The company namespace.com had reputedly registered about 25.000 domainnames without apparantly paying for them. No wonder we had a cybersquatting problem. But you've got to admit it's great for business. Buy low, sell high and disappear when the sh*t threatens to hit the fan. Roelof -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Het Slakke Huis van de TGV op http://SlakkeHuis.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. UPC/Chello home http://nisser.com/ Beveiligingsverwijzingen http://nisser.com/links.htm Lokale Chello lijn monitor http://nisser.com/~roelof/logs_chello.shtml Nationale UPC monitor http://nl.eboa.com/~roelof/NL/landelijk.php3 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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