Wouldn't a more sensible policy be to just be sure of the terms on which your weblog's hosted? I mean, there's hundreds of thousands of sites on blogspot that are run by people who don't own Google, but that doesn't mean they're in any danger, assuming Google's a going concern, right? I'd trust Google's server farm over some random fly-by-night hosting company.

Just to reinforce xian's comment. Controlling your own dns is a service that most large web hosts/blog hosts should offer. We do at Tripod. It is a convenient (paid) feature called domain forwarding, you get the domain name and point it to wherever you want...when you want.

Hey, Jeff, do I get paid for the clickthrough to your link?

Well owning your own domain doesn't help if the hosting company isn't reliable. John's blog is down as is my own. Digital-Crocus seems to have gone dark. Not sure what is up. They were having problems with their co-location in England and moved to Managed.com in San Jose. Managed.com is alive and kicking but the name servers for digital-crocus are not working. This is the second problem this month. They had to restore from a two week old backup a week ago. No big deal for Radio bloggers but it was a PITA for movable type blogs (especially after I had modified my templates extensively). Now an unexplained outage going on 24 hours. Manage.com is not talking to me. All the contacts I have for digital-crocus (email) are based on their own mail server which isn't up. Not a happy camper.