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Domain Name Registrars
New option, new registrar reselling through Drak.net's provider: http://www.domainspricedright.com/ Nope, bad:
This afternoon, WildWest Domains (GoDaddy) refused to cancel us at the end of our billing period for the services in June, and instead canceled as of that very moment. "Domains Priced Right" is GoDaddy. It's their reseller account that they merge people into after their reseller account is "abandoned".
Apparently, they were not all that enthusiastic regarding the reason we were leaving.
It was quite an...ah... enlightening conversation. :)
No, I think it was vindictive - We paid $229.00 for the super reseller thingy a year, so they kept $40 of the money we directly paid them and nuked the service early. Then we got around $100 a month in commission because we had quite a number of folks on there, and we priced it pretty low since that was the purpose of getting the Interface, and they'll keep that couple of hundred dollars as well.
Yeppers, all in all, pretty unethical, but not unexpected considering their reputation. They're a hard sell, shove it down your throat, our way or the highway kind of company, and it's pretty well known that ceasing to do business with them is not really something that they like.
So, $250 lost, lesson learned, and I know what registrar I won't recommend to anyone. :)
Current domain name registrar:
1&1 ~$6/year but I don't think they extend a year when you transfer in? In any case, the price is to draw people in and get them to buy cheap, but terrible, hosting services. Just doesn't seem sustainable...
Best Bets
From going through the "list of ICANN accredited registrars" in alphabetical order:
- BlueRazor ~$7.25 -- they don't do bulk management/discounts at this time
- Second Tier from ICANN list:
- FoxEdge.com ~$7
- Answerable - tried, terrible control panel, ~$6.99 (looks like a reseller)
Note: tons on the iCANN list are fronts for snapdomains and Namescout.
Other Options
- DrakNet Domains - $8.80 a year ( http://www.draknetdomains.com/ )
- Nearly Free Speech - $7.50; they're actually reselling from Public Domain Registry, which is a front for ResellerClub.com, a Directi business (as is Answerable); the best it gets, at $3,000 up front, is $6.49 for a regular domain.
- OpenWebSource.com ~$8.88 - right cause, but I think just a reseller for myorderbox.com
Investigated and Unsuitable
- GKG.net - no services whatsoever, forwarding or even assigning DNS records costs extra. "Host elsewhere" is allegedly free, so this may be an option for VPS hosted sites where we manage the nameserver.
- ResellOne (Everyone's Internet) ~$6.50 -- put down a huge deposit to get that rate, and their interface, the technology on their own site, was so bad I wouldn't trust them with a dime.
Tried and Evil
- Active-Domain
- Getting evil: DomainSite.com
Do it ourselves
- Figure out what's involved
- Get ICANN accredited
- Promote the development of open source registrar software
- Is TDomain manager what we seek?
- Or any of these Address Management links?
complex view example
<?php
$view = new view;
$view->name = 'contributions';
$view->description = 'Articles and Commentary';
$view->tag = 'content type';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
Lighter weight biblio_load_contributors
Somehow I wrote the explanatory text for the function twice. It seems far too much for a small function so we're pulling out the philosophy and putting it here, for now.
<?php
/**
* Return array of single words from the contributor fields of biblio content.
*
* This is just a stripped down version of biblio_load_contributors, used as a
Adding Drupal profile as a git submodule (terminal dump)
Not sure about this approach, let alone the documentation.
git add modules/
cd ../../../
git add .gitmodules drupal/profiles/imcdrupal/
cd drupal/profiles/imcdrupal/
git status
git commit -m "added the imc alba modules, and fckeditor (and the fckeditor third party download)"
git push
cd ../../../
git add drupal/profiles/imcdrupal/
The Drupal way, in a sentence
On IRC #drupal:
webchick: What I would rather do is pimp out trigger module so we could do that kind of stuff just through configuring some actions
Pro Bono Youth Radio Review
A technical review YouthRadio.org, newly relaunched in Drupal.
Design
- Give it a favicon (a little icon in the browser address bar)
DrupalCampNYC5 final random notes
San Francisco
semantic library
Plos
looking for developers
open library project
(Then later at the bar PLOS was mentioned again by ....)
*****
for a description of visual photos
tagging photos
someone writes New York
take all these options and make one unified thing
one word or two word or underscore
Notes on the Taxonomy Code Sprint to turn into a Drupal planet post soon enough
the better taxonomy is under the hood, the better it will be for crazy community-empowering stuff like that
Figuring out the HTML code to generate and the CSS to use for placing CCK fields in the corners of a textfield
Text outputs as:
win win win
Gathering the data needed to abuse field formatters-- disable and combine and change per node settings set by user
For old times sake... this is one of the last outputs like this before I use a properly integrated development environment, Eclipse PDT (for PHP) with xdebug, which will show all the variables without the Drupal set messaging and such.
Field_placement displaying using CCK field formatters
