VeriSign?! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! But seriously I've had so many problems with them. They seriously mucked up one domain I had with them, to the extent they gave me another four years free renewal on it It's now transferred to my provider of choice (EV1 - but that's not going to be everybody's cup of tea either) where it's just add another year added to it (so nothing more to pay for another five years).

At the end of the day it's all a matter of people's opinion and experiences. I'm sure VeriSign is not the evil company that I think it is, but from past personal dealings I wouldn't touch them again.

Regards,

Martyn (who owns too many domains for his own good/liking!)

Or, for less than $9/year you can register/renew with GoDaddy.com or one of their affiliates (like me) for even less...

I cringe when I hear that people are still paying $35/yr for a domain purchase/renewal/transfer!

Oh man, Verisign. I'm convinced that that company is not run by humans, but by Perl scripts. Ever try getting in touch with technical support? Good luck. Good luck e-mailing someone there for help. All you'll get back is some automated e-mail that never helps and does nothing but irritate you even more.

If it were run by Perl scripts, there wouldn't be a problem :)

Yeah right. Ever look at a bad Perl Script? I've never seen anything more sloppier than Perl code. That language is too abused and it's the easiest to be sloppy in. I'd rather see bad sloppy C++ code with gotos than bad Perl code any day.

The same can be said about any programming/scripting language. I was referring to when Perl code is good. Personally, I've never made it further than "Hello World" with Perl, but everyone I know who does know Perl (among others) say that it's their language of choice, when given the option. According to one collegue, "Why write 5000 lines of C code when I can write 200 lines of Perl code to do the same thing?"

Frankly, Verisign and the RIAA should be piped into /dev/null - right along with the MPAA IMHO.