I posted to this blog last year, asking who to use to register a .co.za domain because I had some bad experiences with some of the bigger South-African (not mentioning any names, of course) domain registrars.
I have subsequently found that the easiest, quickest, cheapest is to do it yourself. It only costs R50-00 a year (much better than the exhorbatant R200/year some registrars charge) and only takes 10 minutes to do (be that in a slightly archaic way). But the best thing about this is the absolute control you have. There are no 3rd parties involved (i.e no registrars pleading ignorance about changing DNS settings so that you HAVE to host with them etc). You set up your all YOUR contact info, DNS settings and all the rest.
The way to do it yourself is very straight forward. All you have to do is to go to the co.za Domain Administration homepage and click on the HowTo guide link. This explains it all.
I have recently registered The Red Apple in this fashion and it runs of my Brinkster (in the US) account. Exactly how I want it.
Hi & thx 4 this info regarding domain registration. Pleeeeeeeeez tell me what does this mean & who is the best to help me . I want to start a few websites (co.za) & i currently have absolutely nothing .Pleeez help.
Hey great read.
I currently registered a domain name with .co.za, and i wanted it to link to my webspace, but am getting no help from the company i registered it with.
I tried changing the nameserver in that online form but the company i registered domain with denied it saying i have to remove there names?
Im so lost with this ticket based method of domains!
Hi There,
i sell .co.za domains for R100 per year but that also includes 10mb webhosting for free. You can also redirect the domain if you want. I do credit card sales as well. I am in SA but offer a very good service. Also remember that when you reg a .co.za domain the dns changing doesn't work the same as say godaddy where you control the dns. With a .co.za you first have to have a hosting account setup and very important the PTR record have to be setup correctly. Well if you need a cheap domain with hosting and no adverts then visit my site and i can help you. www.cheap-domains.co.za
What they mean is this:
You can't just change the nameservers and keep there names as the contact people.
Lets assume you used Company A to do the registration and hosting. Right now, Mr A, of Company A are the contact, admin, account contacts. The DNS servers are ns1.CompanyA.com and ns2.CompanyA.com.
Now you submit a change to change the name servers to ns1.CompanyZ.com and ns2.CompanyZ.com, BUT you leaving the contact asn support people name as Mr A from Company A.
Mr A from Company A is telling you he is rejecting it because he can't be the contact and support person of ns1.CompanyX.com, because that name server is not his!.
Submit the change again, and update all the contact information to your own name, address and email.