I would checkout nearlyfreespeech.net very privacy focussed and pretty cheap and very accessible website. On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:35:26 -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > Hi Karen: The registrar I have linux-speakup.org with is > internic.com. They gave me some bull shit about because it was a .org > domain they had to charge $46 a year plus tax etc. My other registrar > told me they wanted $25 for a single year but discounts for multi-year > contracts. It would probably be significantly cheaper if I were to > take it out for ten years or so. > > Internic has always been much more expensive than other registrars but > when I started with them over twenty years ago there were very few > domain name providers around at all. > > Kirk > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > > Hi there, > > Just wondering, how much were they going to charge you? > > All of my domain, save the one here in Canada are with gkg.net > > www.gkg.net. > > I spend on average $12 a year, with the amazing ability to > > update with them on the phone. > > Even my Canadian domain with bare medal > > www.baremedal.ca I hope lol, is little more than $14. > > why is yours so expensive? > > just wondering, > > Kare > > > > > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > > >> Hello everybody: I have decided after poking around with my domain > >> registrar that I'm going to allow the domain linux-speakup.org to > >> expire. My current registrar wants to much money yearly to continue > >> with them and transferring the domain to my other registrar is more > >> work than I wish to put in. I am almost 72 years old and so > >> registering for any length of time really isn't worth it to me. > >> > >> I will keep this list going as speakup@xxxxxxxxxx and Chris Brannon > >> will continue to archive the list. I will also put a link on the > >> reisers.ca webpage to point to the old sites directory so at least for > >> quite a while that will also remain. > >> > >> I will make the switch over on March 1st although it'd be more amusing > >> to do it on the day of the command March 4th! I'll send out a note > >> once the switch is complete and hopefully you won't have to do > >> anything except move from speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to > >> speakup@xxxxxxxxxx when posting a message. > >> > >> Kirk > >> > >> > >> > > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx