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On about 2005 April 15 I discovered my website at: zyvra.net/lafarr no longer worked. It turned out the name registration had expired. HostDime where it was registered, would not not reactivate it without my sending, via the internet, my VISA card number. Because of spyware problems I was having, I refused to send anything that could be stolen over the internet. I phoned HostDime sales and the person there refused to even accept my VISA number over the telephone! (HostDime actually registers through ENOM who was very belligerent, and more or less told me to deal with HostDime or go to Hell.)
I changed registrars to Go Daddy, but HostDime refused to reactivate zyvra.net or let me transfer it to Go Daddy. Fortunately, I was able to quickly get zyvra.org registered with Go Daddy. I am also getting web space from Go Daddy. After my experience with HostDime I would advise anyone to avoid HostDime or HasWeb.com which they also own.
So far, I am very happy with Go Daddy. Their people are very good and helpful, even with people like me who came to them with a ton of problems. The only negative I have with Go Daddy is their web pages, which are "too cute" confusing, and very slow when you are working on a dial up modem. Go Daddy would be well advised to put all their web site developers on dial-up modems limited to about 24K. Or, even better: Get a whole new web site development team.
Go to Internic.com and click on their "whois" page. The last I tried, they would only let you check a couple names and would kick you off! ? Maybe if you keep deleting "cookies" they couldn't tell how many names you had checked?
Sadly, Internic.com is part of ICANN, a US Department of Commerce set up bureaucracy. ICANN is responsible for the mess of "Domain Name Registration". Thank God they had nothing to do with our: Personal Names, telephone numbers, P.O. Box numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers, or a host of other things. If they did we would be registering them through a host of crooked companies, charging anything they want and selling your name, and numbers to anyone.
It is a sad fact of history that the US Government ever had anything to do with the Internet.