[AusNOG] Am I being unreasonable.... MelbourneIT

[Nathan Brookfield]

The majority of registrars in AU provide it for 'Free' these days, the age of changing for DNS hosting for basic domains is over.

Kindest Regards,
Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)

Chief Executive Officer
Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd

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-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2014 3:59 PM
To: Jake Anderson
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Am I being unreasonable.... MelbourneIT


In message <5406993D.6000904 at vapourforge.com>, Jake Anderson writes:
> On 03/09/14 13:08, Chard, Alex (REA-SYD) wrote:
> >
> > Seems to me the correct way to solve this issue would be to charge a
> > (small) fee for the DNS hosting.
> >
> > That way, customers will be aware that they have a DNS zone on your 
> > DNS servers (via their bill), and have some incentive to clean up if 
> > they delegate away.
> >
> > If you do end up with zones that are not delegated to your DNS 
> > servers… doesn’t matter, you’re being paid to host them.
> >
> > To the actual issue here… can you tell the DNS host that you wish to 
> > use them as a secondary/tertiary DNS host until your migration is 
> > complete?
> >
> > From what I’ve seen, MelbourneIt have gone downhill over the last 
> > few years. We have almost entirely migrated away from their 
> > registrar services since they sold their corporate arm to CSC 
> > because of poor service.
> >
> > --Alex Chard
> >
> >
> I was moving registration and dns hosting to ventra. They didn't have 
> the ability for me to set up the dns hosting before the domain 
> transfer went through.
> So I had to do the transfer, then wait by my email account and when 
> the email came in quick like a bunny set all the DNS up again.
> Rather a large fail from an otherwise decent company I felt.
> 
> Is DNS hosting such a load that giving away a week of it free during 
> the transfer process is going to break the bank?

No.  And why would you say it would be "free"?  You would be paying them to host the DNS zones.

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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