[Hidden-tech] domain name acquisition

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There is also the question of where your DNS is hosted.

Most registrars will host DNS for you, but like hosting, DNS is subject to
DDOS attacks and other more obscure failures.  Godaddy DNS was attacked last
fall and millions of websites using Godaddy's DNS were inaccessible for
several hours.  If DNS goes down, your website can't be found.

Doing the math on a 4 hour outage, that still worked out to better than
99.9% uptime over a one year period, a figure which is reasonable for many
websites.
 
Even if you have a DNS provider which gave you a service level agreement,
say of 99.99% uptime in any month, most of those will just give you a one
month service credit for an outage like that 4 hour Godaddy outage.  Try
telling your clients that even though you have an SLA on the services you
deploy, all it did was provide a month of service credit on an obscure
portion of their services.  I tell clients that SLA agreements are just
insurance, where what they really want is to minimize failures, not to be
compensated for them.

You can improve odds on DNS by setting up secondary DNS, or by finding a DNS
service provider with a good track record, good technical explanation of the
track record, and good reviews from many users.
 
Charlie 




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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] domain name acquisition

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