Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC?

baerm writes "With GoDaddy being purchased by private equity firms (i.e. it will be sucked dry with service reduction and price increases until it dies) what other Registrars support DNSSEC? GoDaddy is the only registrar I could find that supports DNSSEC for registrees running their own DNS. It was fairly easy to add the Key Signing Keys' DS records to the parent zone using its DNS config. I did find a couple other registrars that were 'testing' DNSSEC or that would support DNSSEC if they ran your DNS. But I couldn't find any other registrars where you could just register, run your own DNS, and use DNSSEC (i.e. with your DS record in your parent zone). That being said, I was only able to research a small percentage of the registrars out there. Does anyone know of registrars, other than GoDaddy, that allow for DNSSEC? That is, registrars that have a method to pass the DS records to the parent zones for their registeree's domains?"

Re:Hmmmm

[TooMuchToDo]

Several months ago, I thought about opening a coop model registrar, in the same vein as ARIN or other non-profit resource management organizations, but didn't think there'd be enough demand (IT people would dig it, but not your average joe, who is going to use GoDaddy). How difficult is it to start a registrar?

Why do we immediately assume GoDaddy will suck?

[jchawk]

I'm not sure why we should immediately assume that GoDaddy will suck just because they were purchased by a private equity firm. GoDaddy had every intention of going public but choose not to because of how they would have had to report their earnings/recognize revenue. From what I remember they would essentially split the revenue of a domain registration out over the life of the domain registration as opposed to immediately upon payment.

GoDaddy is a cash cow that will likely continue to be a cash cow if they parent firm let's GoDaddy continue to operate in the manner they have done so since they were founded.

I'm not an investment equity firm but if I were I would look to maximize revenue over as long of a timeline as possible. GoDaddy has no real tangible assets to come in and suck dry like a large manufacture might so sucking the life out really doesn't make a lot of financial sense.

I've been happy with GoDaddy over the years and will continue to use them until their service slips or their prices get out of control.