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Re:Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 ... by fortes on Thursday March 19, 2009 @12:46PM (#523579)
I use Dreamhost, since I have some domains hosted there. No issues, but it's mindblowing or anything.
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Re:Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 ... by Zev on Thursday March 19, 2009 @08:36PM (#524275)
Dreamhost is only good as a registrar if you have hosting. If you don't have hosting there and don't plan on it, don't touch them.

I registered a domain with them yesterday - but have separate hosting, so don't need to buy more of it from them. I'm unable to do anything beyond change DNS servers (no custom mx records, for example).

When I contact their support about something, it usually gets a prompt (within 10 minutes) response. But when it deals ith deleting domains, they take forever to respond. And they refuse to let you delete/cancel a domain. Even though ICANN's policy lets you do so for 5 days with the grace period. Since the ICANN still hasn't changed the policy AFAIK.

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