[WEB4LIB] getting a dot com domain listed.

[Justin Scott]

There is a whole site entitled "Registrar Rankings" that has a pretty 
complete listing of different registrars and ranks them according to price 
and how many legal rights they take over... not exactly what you're looking 
for but should at least give you an idea of who to go to next!

http://www.DomainNameBuyersGuide.com/m001/webpages/registrarranking/registrarrankings01.htm

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Justin Scott
Programmer / Analyst
UCLA Dept. of Information Studies
jmscott at ucla.edu
(310) 825-2159

At 11:27 PM 8/20/00, Yvonne Reynolds wrote:
>Hi,
>Is there anyway of getting a .com domain listed without using Network 
>Solutions?
>They have an on-line registeration system which only accepts credit cards. 
>We are in South africa.  I have tried 2 VISA cards, but both were 
>rejected.  I have sent numerous emails and  a fax giving details of the 
>domain I would like to register and requesting an invoice and banking 
>details so that we can effect payment, but keep getting "form letter/ 
>automated responses back about how I can register on-line!!!   I am 
>tearing my hair out!!
>
>I seem to recall reading a few months back that they no longer had sole 
>monopoly on the registration of dot coms.  Does anyone know of an 
>aternative registering agency who might be prepared to invoice us?
>
>TIA
>Yvonne
>
>Yvonne Reynolds
>Web site Manager/ Librarian
>National Botanical Institute
>Kirstenbosch.
>P/Bag x 7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
>Tel +27 21 762 1166
>Fax +27 762 0646
>email: reynolds at nbict.nbi.ac.za
>http://www.nbi.ac.za