[geeks] Looking for subdomain?

[Mouse]

>> GHI talked a good line when I told them I required that I not have
>> to use the Web for anything, but things are still unfinished, and
>> it's less than two weeks to the drop-dead date.  So I'm looking into
>> alternatives in case I am unable to find a way to keep the domain
>> that doesn't involve jumping through Web hoops.
> Please clarify, are you saying you want to avoid web for day to day
> interaction (webmail / etc.) or are you wanting to avoid web
> interfaces / management portals for configuring / administering your
> domain registration / dns / etc?  Those seem like two very different
> things to me.

They are.  The latter is closer to what I want.  I am already running
all relevant services (such as DNS and mail) myself; the only thing I
was looking for is domain registration without requiring me to jump
through Web hoops - or, if there's anyone suitable and willing, a
subdomain delegated to me.

However, it's more like, needing to avoid, not just wanting to - though
I suppose the line between need and want is a bit fuzzy.  In
particular, I neither have nor want HTTPS support, which makes most Web
interfaces unusable - even if I considered them suitable for the task,
which I don't.

Since I wrote the first email, it looks as though all the obstacles I'm
currently aware of have been cleared, so I now expect I'll end up
keeping rodents-montreal.org.

>> But I'm not especially attached to having a second-level domain.  I
>> wouldn't _like_ to have to rename everything, but it may be the
>> least-pain alternative.
> I would expect that you can retain your existing domain even if you
> can't get it migrated to somewhere satisfactory in a timely enough
> manner.  Or is expiration part of the timing of -- what seems to be
> turning into -- the fiasco.

I'm not entirely clear.

Company DEF (to reuse my previous mail's blinding of the exact
companies involved) says that, as of August 3rd, they will no longer be
willing to function as registrar (reseller) for my domain.  I do not
know what would happen to it if I didn't move it away before that; I
suspect it would be released, or go into some kind of "deletion rescue"
hold, or some such.

The registration had roughly a year to run before the transfer.  My
understanding is that company GHI will extend the registration by one
year as part of doing the transfer.  So, depending on how you measure,
there should be roughly either one or two years to go.

>> In aid of that, I'm wondering if anyone here (a) has a domain that
>> isn't afflicted with registrant "privacy" and (b) would be willing
>> to delegate a subdomain of it to me...?
> A and B seems somewhat independent of each other.

They are.

> I also don't see why it matters if the parent domain is using
> registrar privacy or not.

Because I do not like registrar privacy.  I think it should not exist;
I believe that holding a slice of the domain name space should be like
owning land: inherent in that should be identifiability and
contactability.  I am not willing to stay under such an umbrella.

> I would think that the more important question for a sub-domain would
> be if rwhois or swip is supported or not.

They would help in some respects, but I don't consider them
substitutes.

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