lorax - 5:30 pm on Nov 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

JasOn,

You bring up a good point. There is something to be said about having access to your own DNS record - providing you know what you're doing. It's not for everyone.

If for some reason you decided to relocate your website then the most important difference between making the change at the Registrar level (on your DN record) versus making the change to DNS is that DNS is instantaneous - or at least as soon as the DNS server refreshes itself which is almost certain to be sooner than the root servers.