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tritium · 06-30-2004, 09:20 AM

So, you register a domain name for the maximum allowable time period (10yrs). Somewhere along the way, your registrar dies. What happens to the rest of your "lease"? I spoke with godaddy.com billing support and the guy told me that the lease for 10years will stand and the DNS records will also stand, even if the registrar is toast. What I don't understand is how that could be, and how I would change my nameservers at that hypothetical point.

What has been ya'll's experience? My client is willing to pay me some serious mollah to get this done for her, and it would mean a tidy profit. But, as the host for her websites aswell, I'm concerned that I'll be stuck with my present host forever if my registrar dies off (wouldn't be able to change DNS records via their system to point to a new IP).

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tritium Professor of Drinkology	Multiple Year registrations ... registrar then dies... So, you register a domain name for the maximum allowable time period (10yrs). Somewhere along the way, your registrar dies. What happens to the rest of your "lease"? I spoke with godaddy.com billing support and the guy told me that the lease for 10years will stand and the DNS records will also stand, even if the registrar is toast. What I don't understand is how that could be, and how I would change my nameservers at that hypothetical point. What has been ya'll's experience? My client is willing to pay me some serious mollah to get this done for her, and it would mean a tidy profit. But, as the host for her websites aswell, I'm concerned that I'll be stuck with my present host forever if my registrar dies off (wouldn't be able to change DNS records via their system to point to a new IP). __________________ Blah.