Domain name registrars

BitFolk is not yet set up to be a domain registrar, so you cannot register domains directly through BitFolk. Hopefully that feature will be available at some time. In the mean time here are some (personal!) recommendations.

In no particular order...

123-Reg

£5.98 + VAT for 2yr .uk

£9.99 + VAT for 1yr .com

123-reg have quite a limited control panel for setting up DNS records - eg. if you want an MX record for a host within the domain you have raise a support ticket rather than using the control panel.

IPv6

The 123-Reg control panel has no concept of IPv6. If you want to use AAAA records, you need to host the DNS somewhere else (by pointing the NS records to different nameservers) or run the gauntlet of getting their support team to set up the records for you. YMMV.

If you want IPv6 glue records for domain names you've registered with them, you have to go through the support team (and may have to kick them several times before they'll actually *do* anything). You may be able to speed things up by providing them with the information they need in the format they need it (let's not make it any harder on the poor dears, eh?)

Include the information in your support request like this:

ns.example.co.uk: Ip4 address: 1.2.3.4 ipv6 address (fe80:007:101::2)
ns2.example.co.uk :ip4 address: 9.8.7.6 Ipv6 address (fe80:007:101::99)

This seemed to work for me (MurkyGoth) - after submitting that I was told:

I can confirm that I have configured this for you now. Please allow 24-48 hours before this change takes effect through the registry.

We'll see - at the time of wiki editing, a whole 3 hours had passed and still no AAAA glue records. Bah! I thought computers were supposed to be fast! :P

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