Secnt from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2014 15:19 To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke Reply To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke Subject: skunkworks Digest, Vol 49, Issue 109 Send skunkworks mailing list submissions to skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke You can reach the person managing the list at skunkworks-owner@lists.my.co.ke When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of skunkworks digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: .co.ke domain woes (Jimmy Thuo) 2. Re: Home Theatres comparison (Odhiambo Washington) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:17:37 +0300 From: Jimmy Thuo <jimmy.thuo@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] .co.ke domain woes Message-ID: <CAG=TismcFJ5nkfXWnwbBm4ATjSiatpj-aM3FkJnVLT8YxROWyA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To me the requirement to have the request formalised on a letter head is inorder. That would ensure that any domain change requests are authorised and indeed not done maliciously. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:

David,

Although the registrar should not cast their policies on stone, it's usually tricky when "strangers" call requesting for DNS control, e.t.c. Remember social engineering?

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On 13 March 2014 04:55, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:

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When you register a domain, the first thing to do is get it off the registrar's name servers. There simply has never been, and probably never will be, a registrar who is also a best of breed DNS service.

The best free one these days is Cloudflare.

Amazon Route53 is also good and of course there's Dynect and UltraDNS for enterprises (but they're expensive)

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:52 PM, David Njuguna <dnjuguna@gmail.com>wrote:

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Yesterday one of our clients requested their .ke domain registrar to the change name servers for their domain to the servers we use. The registrar's response was that they can only do so if they received a letter on a letter head from our company.

I simply do not feel like complying with this ludicrous request. What to do?

David.

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