Anonymous (not verified) on December 27, 2006 - 7:47am.
I have used Zoneedit for at least 4 years with several domains and have always been extremely pleased and 100% satisfied with the functionality …. until this month. [I’m a paying customer BTW - email forwarding bandwidth and zones, not extra nameservers though.]
My domains have had significant outages this month and I’m not happy about it. Mail forwarding has been slow (>24hrs in some cases). A friend who’s also with ZE thinks messages are disappearing. Web pages simply aren’t accessible at times.
I’m really disappointed because it has been such a good service until now.
I noticed this some time ago and have been waiting to see what sort of shenanigans it might cause. I expected preferential treatment to Dotster customers or pressure to move your domains to Dotster or some such crap (which I wouldn’t want to do because I’m extremely happy with my current registrar). Owning Zoneedit gives Dotster a lot of info about domains registered with other registrars. I expect this recent addition of name registration is just the start.
All this talk of ‘purchasing’ extra nameservers is utter rubbish. Two nameservers should be enough. ZE’s previous reliability is proof of that. (And other providers too.) If they’re going to push this line then they’ve lost all credibility in my view.
IMO, it’s a classic example of a corporation ruining something was working just fine. I suppose the return on investment just wasn’t high enough, they had to go and ‘monetize’ it. It’s a real shame.
I have used Zoneedit for at least 4 years with several domains and have always been extremely pleased and 100% satisfied with the functionality …. until this month. [I’m a paying customer BTW - email forwarding bandwidth and zones, not extra nameservers though.]
My domains have had significant outages this month and I’m not happy about it. Mail forwarding has been slow (>24hrs in some cases). A friend who’s also with ZE thinks messages are disappearing. Web pages simply aren’t accessible at times.
I’m really disappointed because it has been such a good service until now.
AFAICT, Zoneedit was sold this year to Dotster, a domain name registrar:
I noticed this some time ago and have been waiting to see what sort of shenanigans it might cause. I expected preferential treatment to Dotster customers or pressure to move your domains to Dotster or some such crap (which I wouldn’t want to do because I’m extremely happy with my current registrar). Owning Zoneedit gives Dotster a lot of info about domains registered with other registrars. I expect this recent addition of name registration is just the start.
All this talk of ‘purchasing’ extra nameservers is utter rubbish. Two nameservers should be enough. ZE’s previous reliability is proof of that. (And other providers too.) If they’re going to push this line then they’ve lost all credibility in my view.
IMO, it’s a classic example of a corporation ruining something was working just fine. I suppose the return on investment just wasn’t high enough, they had to go and ‘monetize’ it. It’s a real shame.