Moving a parked domain away from Network Solutions

by philg

Folks:

I registered some domains so long ago that the registrar is Network Solutions, which was somewhat expensive in the old days but now has cranked up their prices to crazy expensive. I might just give up the domain, which I’m not using: clickthrough.net. Back in the mid-1990s, it seemed like measuring clicks from one domain to another would be exciting (see the User Tracking chapter of Philip and Alex’s Guide, for example). But who is even aware of this now?

I can’t remember anyone ever inquiring to purchase this domain. That means it is worthless, right?

Can I park this worthless domain somewhere for $10? Or should I just let it expire?

Thanks in advance!

17 thoughts on “Moving a parked domain away from Network Solutions”

  4. have been quite happy with namecheap for a number of years now.

    if the fatherly registrar previously mentioned is still doing business the way they used to, I would avoid them like the Macarena.

  5. I register all of my domains with GANDI. My employer registers all of theirs with Dynadot.

  6. I use Gandi because they are based in France and thus not subject to the capricious demands of a common-law based jurisdiction like the US.

    This was prompted by the case of the Brit in Spain whose Cuba-themed travel websites were confiscated by the US despite there not being the remotest plausible claim to jurisdiction (although in that case the origin was an administrative proceeding of the Treasury, not a feckless judge):
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html

    I used GoDaddy previously. Avoid them like the plague.

  9. I have used Simple Online Solutions for at least twelve years, the cost is between $11 and 14 per year per domain name depending on quantity discounts, a little cheaper for more than 5 domains, and might be cheaper to renew for many years.

    Basic mail and url forwarding (without knowledge of MX) is included, but less capable than cPanel offered by Bluehost etc.

    They are based in Upstate New York, seems to be a one man business, and hasn’t sold out yet. All requests outside what I do in their GUI have been answered promptly by George Duggan.

  10. +1 for Amazon AWS / Route 53. $12/year for dot-coms. Has been very reliable for us. Note though that this only gets you registration. DNS can be added cheaply with a Route 53 Hosted Zone, but there’s no one-click option to add HTTP/email forwarding.

    I also like EasyDNS, which is Canada-based (and proud of it!). However, they don’t have the same scale as Amazon and have had some DDoS issues. What I do like is that you can choose the services you want – just registration+DNS, or registration+DNS+HTTP/email forwarding.

  11. I still have my copy of Philip and Alex’s Guide on my bookshelf and look at it from time to time. It’s why I still read you, even though I disagree at times.

  15. I moved all my domains to namesilo.com a year back. Inexpensive, free privacy, and a good selection of tlds.

  17. Sell it – online estimate (perhaps not that reliable) is it is worth $8k. I once sold a dot com domain to someone who had the dot com dot country equivalent for $10k so it is possible.

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