Commodore Remix

Hey guys,

It looks like I'll be losing my lovely http://www.binaryzone.co.uk domain name thanks to Nominet hitting me with a whopping £94 bill to renew it which, due to current circumstances, I can't pay.

This means the site will vanish in the next few days and a lot of links to it will be broken. I'm going to try to bag a new domain name but as I'm so busy at work at the moment have left things too late to make it a smooth switchover.

I was planning to give the site a bit of a revamp anyway so I may use the down-time to finish off some stuff I was working on - including a section with FREE downloadable BZ disk images, The Best Of Fred Gray CD (if Chris gives me the go-ahead to unleash it), Project:Hubbard (so much done, so much still to do!)

But for now it's bye-bye Binary Zone ... (Unless there's a sudden influx of orders on the site, ahem! *cough*)

I will return.

I'm just curious as to how that's happened... it almost sounds like nothing's been paid on the domain name since you got it!

Damn, wish I could help, but I've already ordered 99% of what you have for sale, and I'm strapped for cash anyway...

94 quid? For a UK domain name? That's... just... insane...

CraigG wrote:94 quid? For a UK domain name? That's... just... insane...

Nominet don't really want to do it: which is why they quote prices to put people off and get them to hassle their own nameserver providers. That's going to bite them in the arse since the impression I get is that the .co.uk domain is in a bit of a mess, thanks to all and sundry selling domain names and then not bothering to renew them, but not enabling the owners to do so either.

In fact, it makes me so ANGRY!!!

(but then everything does that these days).

Chris

£94 .... Thats just totally hatstand !!! and they only gave you a few days to do this ? thats just totally nuts...

Of course, Kenz could always switch to GoDaddy domain hosting—it's pretty good value and fairly reliable.

CraigG wrote:Of course, Kenz could always switch to GoDaddy domain hosting—it's pretty good value and fairly reliable.

Well, there are loads of places, but they can't renew the binaryzone.co.uk domain since it's owned by idiots, and the only way to get back control is to give Nominet a lot of money. I use 123-reg.co.uk myself.

Chris

Ah—I was under the impression the domain was owned by Kenz.

CraigG wrote:Ah—I was under the impression the domain was owned by Kenz.

Hmm, well nominally it is, I guess, but not in real life. It's always a mistake handing an ISP control of your domain registration. It's not their core business: what do they care if they "forget" to renew your domain while taking the money for it?

Chris

Thats outrageous!

Yikes!!! thats $195.31 Canadian. I paid $9.99 U.S for a single domain name with GoDaddy. I've got 2 parked at the moment.

Yeah, I fell into the messy .co.uk trap I'm afraid. The domain was bought a good few years ago but all the info on where it came from is lost in the mists of time so I am unable to access the relevant control panel to renew it cheaply. Nominet automatically sting you with an £80 bill (+VAT) when a domain expires but there's no way I'm going to pay that much.

It's not fatal - I'll buy a different domain and will attach it to the Zone shortly. Plus any down-time will give me the chance to give the site some much needed tweaks - I really want to add lots of (FREE!) downloadable goodies just to say "thanks!" to everyone who has visited the Zone over the years. It's payback time!

CraigG wrote:Of course, Kenz could always switch to GoDaddy domain hosting—it's pretty good value and fairly reliable.

Enuff with the GoDaddy pimping already. It's bad enough that I have to endure their ads on the Slashdot Review podcast every single day, and on a weekly basis on Diggnation.

I wouldn't know if they have the best product in the world, coz I'd never employ their services out of sheer annoyance with them polluting my morning ride to the office.

Kenz wrote:It's not fatal - I'll buy a different domain and will attach it to the Zone shortly.

There's was a couple of BinaryZone.<whatnot> permutations available when I checked earlier today. Just make sure you purchase the thing yourself and keep all control of it.

I've bought kwed.org off Network Solutions back in the prehistoric ages, and even though there's cheaper alternatives available nowadays I just can't be arsed to switch.