[hosers-announce] service interruption

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

1. Sorry for the downtime this morning. The splitter for the DSL was a bit 
loose in the socket and broke my connection; I blame the cat, since it was 
working when I left home.

2. Moving, again: Once again, I'm relocating all of my worldly possessions 
on 14 August. SBC promised me that they would reestablish my DSL on 19 
August. That's soon enough that I'm uncertain whether it will be worthwhile 
to relocate charybdis during the time when I have no DSL.

The primary problem with relocation is that I have to change the in-zone NS 
records for ellipsis.cx. The registrar does not allow domain owners to 
alter in-zone NS records through their web forms, which means it has to be 
done manually. That involves emailing one of their admins and waiting for 
the change to be made. The past three times I've had to do this, it's been 
a serious pain in the ass, so I'm not sure that it's worth it to have to do 
it twice in one week.

3. That leads me to a third point, viz. that dealing with the .cx registrar 
is such a pain in the ass, and dealing with my registrar for nomic.net 
(gandi.net) is so simple that it makes me wish all of my domains were with 
GANDI. Of course, netdns.cx is the sole registrar for .cx, so I cannot both 
have no domains through them and keep ellipsis.cx. Having a domain that I 
could register through GANDI would make my life simpler; on the other hand, 
lots of you use your ellipsis.cx account as your primary email and have 
fairly well-established web presences on ellipsis.cx.

So, here are a few questions for you, the user:

1. Is it worthwhile to have charybdis up from 14-19 August?

2. Is it worthwhile to keep ellipsis.cx, in lieu of some other domain, 
probably in .net or .org?

3. If you answered no to 2, are there any domains in .net or .org that are 
both available and something you'd like to use?

-- 
J.


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