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Hi:

As some of you may know: I use ZoneEdit.com free services for
translating my website names into actual names for access to my home server.

Anyway, I had an announcement from ZoneEdit yesterday that they were now
going to 'pimp-up' their offerings and then going to charge for their
services. These changes will take place over the next few months.

(I wish *I* had somebody to charge ! )

--
Mel Smith

"Mel Smith" <> wrote:

>Hi:
>
> As some of you may know: I use ZoneEdit.com free services for
>translating my website names into actual names for access to my home server.
>
> Anyway, I had an announcement from ZoneEdit yesterday that they were now
>going to 'pimp-up' their offerings and then going to charge for their
>services. These changes will take place over the next few months.
>
>(I wish *I* had somebody to charge ! )

Why you would need more than their free two zones if you aren't
charging someone? In any case, they provide a very cheap ($10.95) way
of keeping your 5 free zones <http://update.zoneedit.com/> "forever".
I find free services they provide extraordinary
<http://www.zoneedit.com/>. An added advantage is that they are
popular so that every router I have owned had an option to update
ZoneEdit's dynamic DNS.

David said:

> Why you would need more than their free two zones if you aren't
> charging someone? In any case, they provide a very cheap ($10.95) way
> of keeping your 5 free zones <http://update.zoneedit.com/> "forever".
> I find free services they provide extraordinary
> <http://www.zoneedit.com/>. An added advantage is that they are
> popular so that every router I have owned had an option to update
> ZoneEdit's dynamic DNS.

David:

My post was really mostly 'tongue-in-cheek'

I really appreciate their services, and have purchased my latest two
websites thru their 'sub-company': dotster.com

I'm going to but an extra credit or two anyway -- just so they know I'm
not always a 'freeloader'.

-Mel Smith

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says...
>
> Hi:
>
> As some of you may know: I use ZoneEdit.com free services for
> translating my website names into actual names for access to my home server.
>
> Anyway, I had an announcement from ZoneEdit yesterday that they were now
> going to 'pimp-up' their offerings and then going to charge for their
> services. These changes will take place over the next few months.
>
> (I wish *I* had somebody to charge ! )

I can appreciate your situation, but "free" is no longer a viable
business model for the long term. If they can't get advertising to pay
the bills, then we have to.