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Beware of EuroDNS

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25 pointsIanvdl16 comments

I'm the author of this post. If perhaps you're wondering why I didn't just transfer the domain to Cloudflare, it's because they do not support the South African TLD, unfortunately.

You can find a suitable registrar from here: https://tld-list.com/tld/co.za

Also, Route53 supports it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/co...

Thanks for the list! Personal recommendations would always help, but the reference list is useful.

It's good to know Route53 is an option - I might just make the switch tomorrow after getting some sleep.

Welcome, porkbun would have been my recommendation, but it sadly doesn't support it!

I use route53 for my site (brooker.co.za), and have had no complaints. Much nicer than dealing with uniforum's weird email templates.

Disclaimer: I work at AWS.

Thanks for the +1 for Route53, and thanks for mentioning your blog - the content looks really nifty! I'll have a read in the morning.

I’ve been happy with with https://www.inwx.com/en for many years. No-frills.

If you’re still looking for an alternative, https://dnsimple.com is an excellent engineer focused no bullshit domain registrar and they support .co.za

Thanks! I'll compare with Route53 mentioned above and decide the way forward. I was quite happy with Gandi's similar no bullshit approach for the past few years until the abrupt mailbox change last year.

I have been with EuroDNS for many years and did at least two registrar changes from other companies to them. Never had any problems.

Have you already reached their support to clarify what was the problem?

> I logged a ticket with EuroDNS to inquire what the update meant, and mentioned that I’m using Cloudflare as my authoritative DNS servers, so I wasn’t expecting any updates aside from the transfer.

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> On the evening of Saturday, the 13th of April, with no warning, EuroDNS switched the authoritative DNS servers for my domain to their own

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> EuroDNS never responded to my support request either. If you’re aware of a less chaotic registrar that supports *.co.za domains, please let me know.

They never responded to my original ticket, so I didn't bother logging a second one.

I've done DNS transfers to other registrars without issues before, so I expected this one to be the same.

Default behaviour in a registrar transfer is to leave the nameservers as is - the rar has to explicitly send a new ns set in the transfer call to effect a change.

Are you positive you didn't accidentally tick a checkbox or anything to use their nameservers?

Yeah that's why I didn't expect anything to change - if I missed a checkbox somewhere I'd consider it to be a dark pattern, honestly.

i been with EuroDNS for 16 years

no problems here

"wanting to avoid future issues arising from the takeover of Gandi.net."

Uh oh. What went wrong over there?

I miss the days when Network Solutions was run by Verisign.

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