Domain Name Registration

[devildan]

What is the best domain name registration company and which do you use?

[wm2k1]

godaddy.com - fast process and reliable

[devildan]

ok, what do u get with GoDaddy.com

i've been looking around but I can't find the page. Do you get any e-mail forwarding or anything else.

If you have a link to a page that has the info, could you please post it.

Thanks

[birkitty]

I use several.

The cheapest is reg2c.com They're off-shore, and the script they use isn't the greatest, but at $7.20/yr the price is great. ($6.95 + .20 Turkish tax) They have been very accommodating when their script chokes on some of the nameservers I use, and get them straightened out manually within a couple hours. I plan on using them again.

The best I use is http://www.directnic.com They're $15/yr, but full of features and extremely easy to use. (You can get a price break pre-paying on bulk domains, but it still isn;t the cheapest.) If you're new to the world of domains, DNS, et al, this is the place to go. (directnic is an accredited registrar)

http://www.dabot.com is mostly a hosting company, and has some attractive rates if you host with them. I got a few domains there when the lower prices were for everyone, so they're still in place. This isn't the easiest registrar to use, and you often have to nudge them to get action. (They are an enom reseller.)

http://www.powerpipe.com is fairly easy to use, and $8.88/yr registrations are attractive. They have the OpenSRS logo on the main page, but my domains with them seem to be on enom.

http://www.namecheap.com is another $8.88/yr registrar. They're in the same class as powerpipe - a fairly easy reseller. My experiences with these last 2 are positive. However, both are resellers, so you don't get instant registrarions... it may take a few hours.

http://www.godaddy.com is a little more expensive. I just pre-registered a couple .US with them, since they have an attractive price on those. Never used them otherwise, so no real opinions. I wouldn't rate them best I've seen, but they seem to fit into the same class as the last two.

<<Mod edit - no referral links thank you>>

[thewitt]

Whomever you use, make sure you understand any hidden costs - in fact some of the registrars mentioned above have costs that are not listed in their TOS.

Some charge you if you want to transfer your domain to another registrar, or to another person.

Some don't have realtime updates for domain information.

Some don't have control panels that include nameserver updates.

I always enjoy it when someone recommends a registrar that I know charges significant fees for things like transfers - but because the person making the recommendation has never transferred a domain they have not been bitten by this. I always wonder if they will be as happy a customer if they are stuck paying $20 to transfer a domain out, or $50 to change domain owners, etc.

-t

[lotsofissues]

www.stargate.com amazingly this service is so undermentioned. $8.85 per domain or 2 doamins at $8 each. I use it and dont have any problems. Each domain comes along with a pop3 mail account and forwarding.

[GregT]

i use godaddy , very nice . I heard somewhere that reg2c spams u , thats why the price is so low :rolleyes:

[birkitty]

The only one I've used for transfers is directnic. They do it for a year renewal. Since they're a real registrar, it's much cleaner to use them for transfers.

I haven't noticed any spam from reg2c. Then again, there's so much spam in the air, who knows where it all starts from? NSI is certainly a bigger spammer (we won't even mention Namezero.)

If I have a decent price for a domain, I usually leave it with the registrar. Hosts are a different story... I move them around all the time. The notable exception was Namezero, where I got a couple domains when I was much less experienced. I grabbed the domains and transferred them out on the first possible day. (They're still spamming me to re-register birkitty.com with them. That domain has been gone to a reliable registrar for almost 2 years now.)

I'll probably move the dabot domains though. They aren't very responsive to changes unless you lean on them. However, they were cheap when I first registered the domains. :)

[Kaliber]

I can realy only comment on who I have had domains with.

First off GoDaddy, great service, cheap, good support.

Second Namecheap...while it did take a little time for my domain to get registered the price is very good to, 8.88

I have also used a OpenSRS reseller, they are good aswell, no problems :D

[enetwork]

Hello, I represent NameCheap.com and I just wanted to clarify an issue that I have seen posted here. Our registrations are in real time. That means that as soon as you pay, the domain is registered and in your account and no longer available for anyone else to register. It could be that at the time of your registration we were experiencing some connection problems and the domain was in fact registered a bit later and added to your account. This case is the exception and not the norm. Anyways, just wanted to clear that up. Thank you for your comments and if you have any questions you can reach me at rick@namecheap.com . BTW, to all our current customers,I also wanted to mention that we just implemented a "global modification" feature that allows to change in bulk our email and url forwarding, dns, contact information and regsitrar lock options for all your domains at once(or for a selected few if you wish).
Best,