[chbot] Experience with 1stdomains.nz

[chris at trash.co.nz]

Hmmm.

Sounds like you need to stop using bargain basement vendors actually.  
:-)



On 2019-03-15 10:26, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Wed 13 Mar 2019 21:07:53 NZDT +1300, chris at trash.co.nz wrote:
> 
>> How would you loose service for 48 hours?
>> 
>> You set the A/MX records and domain + SOA TTL's to be short and wait
>> 2x the original TTL then when both services are responding to your
>> domain change the records.
> 
> You can't set up the mailboxes at 1stdomains without moving the domain
> there first, so they're exercising lockme-out-from-new-customers 
> haha...
> 
> Also, mailbox providers are liable to delete mailboxes as soon as the
> domain no longer points to their mailbox, especially when the domain is
> hosted with them. I've seen that happen with Registerdirect. So you
> can neither move the domain first, nor move the mailbox first. I.e. 
> it's
> unknown whether you can safely move away from 1stdomains again.
> 
> I'm simply not interested in supporting that kind of company. Zero
> tolerance for vendor lock-in!
> 
> Volker