[thelist] Domain Delegation from Joker

[George Donnelly]

ah I see. I thought you said something before about changing registrars...

At gandi.net the process is also not so user-friendly but the price and
terms rock! My impression of joker is that its basically the same deal.

With NSI and Enom, changes were finalized within 24-36 hours. But with Gandi
it has taken up to 5 days...

Regards,
GEORGE DONNELLY
george at cyklotron.com
http://cyklotron.com/
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and
to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free
market, but by government intervention into the economy. --Ayn Rand

> Actually, I'm not changing registrars .... I'm having the site hosted.
> 
> Last April, I "got the bug" and bought a couple domain names.  I bought them
> through Joker since everyone here and at WebMonkey and at WDVL seemed to
> think that they had one of the best deals around.
> 
> In May I bought a new home machine so that I could 'Monkey around' with web
> development, decide what I wanted to do with the domains and look for a
> host.  [That machine has been the "PC from Hell" and still isn't set up the
> way I want it - dual boot Win98 and Mandrake 7.1 - with problems on BOTH
> sides! - but that's another story!]
> 
> I'm also in the middle of looking for a new job - (Like I don't have enough
> stress in my life!) .... And a week ago I got a call back from a recruiter
> saying they couldn't access the examples of my web work that I put up in
> "free space".
> 
> Well ..... Naturally .... I got p***ed off  ..... then I decided to pay for
> hosting - that way at least I have someone to shout at if the site is down!
> (There are no guarantees in Free Space!)
> 
> Once again - you folks came through - and it looks like webtrader.net.au has
> an outstanding deal......  ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl and CGI ... all
> available at an affordable price!
> 
> So now I'm trying to "move" the domain out of the parking lot, (re-delegate
> the primary and secondary name servers), from Germany to Australia..... and
> put up some content.
> 
> Maybe I panicked and called for help too early --- but I did not find the
> re-delegation process at Joker to be very "intuitive" at all ... My personal
> view is that they need some "accessibility" redesign to make (what I would
> guess to be) frequently used functions ... easy and simple to operate.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's just my unfamiliarity with the process ... and not any
> kind of shortcoming with the folks at Joker ... I just figured that with so
> many people (who know what they are doing) on this list ... someone here
> would have been through this before and might have a yellow stickie next to
> their monitor they could read off to guide me through the process.
> 
> 
> I think I managed to stumble through the re-delegation yesterday ... I don't
> see access to the domain today ... but I'm not worried ... yet .... It takes
> what? ..... 2 or 3 days for a change like this to propagate? ... right?