Which domain registrat is better

[TC Tan]

I come across a few cheap domain registrat just like below. I'm thinking of renew my exisiting domain through one of them. I just wonder which one is better in term of service and support and feature? Anyone can help?

powerpipe.com
registerfly.com
godaddy.com

Any onether cheap domain registrat?

[WorldWarGeneral]

I use namcheap.com myself, but I think all the ones you stated offer pretty much the same service. I'm not sure if Godaddy offers free e-mail forwarding or not, but you can use mydomain.com to get that anyway.

[TC Tan]

Hi,WorldWarGeneral, since you are using namecheap, I just wonder how is their services? Do the provide control panel for us to transfer and modify DNS to other web hosting?

[WorldWarGeneral]

Yep, namecheap works great for me. Their tech support is excellent, always fast and helpful. They do provide a control panel where you can select custom nameservers, mail hosts, e-mail fowards, etc. One thing to note though, with namecheap's cloaked URL fowarding option, there isn't a setting to change the meta tags, page title, or anything like that. So if you you use namecheap's cloaked url fowarding, only your site's URL will appear in the browser's title bar and there won't be any meta tags, so you can't really submit your domain's url to search engines. I use mydomain.com's cloaked url option for this. With mydomain, you can change all of those things and still use the cloaked fowarding option. Other than that, namecheap has provided very good service. I bought 3 domains from them and each one was setup and working properly within 24hrs.

Oh, and about transfering - after you register your domain with them, there is a "transfer" button on the main "modify domains" screen. I've never used it, but I assume it's for transfering that domain to another registrar.

[Edited by WorldWarGeneral on 05-20-2001 at 10:46 AM]