Change to whois policy

[Grogan]

I got an email from Networksolutions telling me that there's a change to whois policy now, where the "Organization" becomes the registrant if the field has data. Also, they are calling it "Registration Data Directory Services" (RDSS) instead of the Whois database now.

Of course, networksolutions uses this to expose you to more marketing, making you go and sign in etc. I actually wanted to this time, because "Mike's Computer Service" isn't even really an entity, it's not a registered business or anything (I'm not required to for gig type self employment) so I figured I'd best just remove it since it becomes the domain owner. That's stupid, the domain owner used to be a person at the organization.

Network solutions gets to put a 60 day domain lock on, when you change whois info. How nice for them. I wasn't planning on transferring it anyway, but still, that irks me.

[Zema Bus]

Sounds like they're becoming more like the previous two registrars I had. The last one was godaddy, and before that it was register.com. I had to go through hoops to transfer out of both of them, with a long delay after all the hoops and a requirement to call them, and both of them were heavy on upsells, especially godaddy. I've been with hover for about 15 years and it's been a much better experience. I don't know what their process for transferring out is like but they have guides for a lot of stuff including for transferring out.

[Grogan]

I was originally with register.com, but what's most important to me is the registrar's DNS services, which got very shitty. I think they were transitioning to being a shitty company at that time, because they made transfer difficult. Even after I jumped through their hoops there was a customer retention waiting period.

Network Solutions turned cuntish with their aggressive upselling/marketing but their DNS services have been rock solid and I haven't had any other kinds of problems. At the time I also chose Network Solutions for domain reputation.

Godaddy is too sleazy for me.