I have been reading through about an hour of searches on domain registrars in the hope of finding a good one to move to. Geez! This is a royal pain in the ***! :angry:

I mean, literally from what I've read so far I can point to any number of threads that show that any registrar out there is crap, poor service, bad billing, even fradulent. So, what the hell am I supposed to do in deciding on a domain registrar? I mean, F man! This place is bombarded with owners pubbing their company and pretending to be regular WHT peeps. :eek2:

For god sake man! Who does NOT suck? F! Somebody just kick me in the balls already. :(

I have been reading through about an hour of searches on domain registrars in the hope of finding a good one to move to. Geez! This is a royal pain in the ***! :angry:

I mean, literally from what I've read so far I can point to any number of threads that show that any registrar out there is crap, poor service, bad billing, even fradulent. So, what the hell am I supposed to do in deciding on a domain registrar? I mean, F man! This place is bombarded with owners pubbing their company and pretending to be regular WHT peeps. :eek2:

For god sake man! Who does NOT suck? F! Somebody just kick me in the balls already. :(

The whole subject is subjective and depends on your wants and needs, many people will openly criticise Network solutions but usually only on price, Godaddy is a pain as far as i am concerned due to bad customer support and other issues, Enom even as an ETP can be a pain, Tucows are generally good AFAIAC but not the cheapest, Directi are low cost but stability of their systems are suspect.

All in all it depends on what you want for your money, is it price? because in almost all cases you get exactly what you pay for, is it service then expect to pay more if you want it all expect to pay a premium.

To answer your question though No registrar sucks ( Ok totalnic is an exception :) ) as long as they are providing what you want.

I like godaddy. I never had an issue to contact customer support, so...
It does what I want... register domains at a low price, reliable, and their control panel works fine.

The whole subject is subjective and depends on your wants and needs, many people will openly criticise Network solutions but usually only on price, Godaddy is a pain as far as i am concerned due to bad customer support and other issues, Enom even as an ETP can be a pain, Tucows are generally good AFAIAC but not the cheapest, Directi are low cost but stability of their systems are suspect.

All in all it depends on what you want for your money, is it price? because in almost all cases you get exactly what you pay for, is it service then expect to pay more if you want it all expect to pay a premium.

To answer your question though No registrar sucks ( Ok totalnic is an exception :) ) as long as they are providing what you want.

So succintly stated

:gthumb:

I like godaddy. I never had an issue to contact customer support, so...
It does what I want... register domains at a low price, reliable, and their control panel works fine.

I'll have to 2nd this, GoDaddy is one of the best... if not the best domain registrar!

None (depending on who you listen too). Suckcinct enough?

I don't find GoDaddy support that bad. OK it is slow, and sometimes feels like going to the dentist, but issues get resolved. So for the price, it's acceptable. The bang for buck is excellent, imho.

Personally I find the downside to GoDaddy is all the graphics and selling of their products when you're in the control panel or checking out. It slows things down a lot. It works well though. I have the bulk of my domains there but come renewal I'm thinking of moving them to a registrar with a more textual type control panel.

My experience with Directi, as someone else said, is the stability of their servers. They go awol occassionally. Of course, always when you need them. And I really didn't like their control panel where you can only list the last 10 domains, and really have to go thru hoops to find/access the others.

Personally I'd never choose NetSol after they refused to answer my emails and transfered my domain away to somebody else. Although I have some domains there after having bought them at auction. They'll be gone come renewal time.

Bulk Register is really only for resellers/big players. You can do almost nothing in their control panel until you pay for an upgrade. Cheap enough for the first year ($30) but come renewal time it's $100/year. You make that back easily if you have many domains.

As somebody else said, it's entirely personal taste and opinion. I like the Dotster control panel and choose MyDomain because they use the Dotster system (although I'm unclear of their relationship with Dotster. They do seem to be joined at the hip) because they are cheaper and include url & email forwarding and DNS management for no extra cost. The control panel and checkout have a couple of quirks to them, but not biggies, so acceptable. I do see them occassionally making small improvements to the control panel.

Tip: If you choose a registrar which charges extra for url & email forwarding and dns management (most do), you can point your domain at the MyDomain servers and they'll give you them for free :) This was how I originally found them.

I'd stick to one of the top half-dozen or so established registrars. I wouldn't go with a reseller.

stu

None (depending on who you listen too). Bulk Register is really only for resellers/big players. You can do almost nothing in their control panel until you pay for an upgrade. Cheap enough for the first year ($30)

stu

$30.00 is cheap?

:erm:

If you're looking for a registrar that'll never f** up, you'll only find one in your own
dreams. Besides, no one's perfect. :D

To expand a bit what Goldwing explained, list down your needs and compare them
with what the registrars offer. Ask them also how they'll approach certain issues
such as spam complaints, AUP, etc.

Better yet, send them an email at 2AM. See how soon they'll reply.

Godaddy for sure. Definitely.

Godaddy for sure. Definitely.

Good to know you haven't had any problems with them so far. Others haven't had
the same luck, especially those who got spam complaints.

I've never experienced spam from Godaddy. Only standard reminder e-mails and update e-mails. Is there a big problem with them spamming with you?

I've never experienced spam from Godaddy. Only standard reminder e-mails and update e-mails. Is there a big problem with them spamming with you?

LOL! I don't mean they send me spam, although I do receive an occasional notice
which I just delete anyway. :D

The link below will tell you what I mean:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=467542

And that's just one example. If you search this forum, you'll find others.

Go Daddy's the "strictest" registrar I've ever encountered.

I hesitate to recommend any computer thing or service as being great and wonderful, because it seems like someone can have a problem with just about anything that has worked well for me or somebody else. I have returned stuff for which others have had good experience. That having been said, my experience with Godaddy and with Namecheap has been good. I have had a few glitches with Godaddy, for which their tech support was helpful. Godaddy has good phone support, but I have seen posts by others who have been less satisfied with their email support. That makes me think that they are probably not as good a choice for people for whom a phone call to U.S.A. is very expensive.

My registrar search has become a headache. I have settled on trying to find a reliable eNom reseller. Does anyone know of any eNom resellers with a history of minimal complaints?

Webnic is fine for me.. just my 2 cents

$30.00 is cheap?

:)

I don't quite recall how I came to get into Bulk Register but I think I won some domains at auction which were place there by default. I think if you want to sign-up new you need to pay the $100 immediately. So $30 is cheap compared to $100. Also, as I said, it's really only for big players with many domains, so dividing the $30 by many domains is cheap, and you can easily make that back with the savings you can make, so it's really free :)

I prefer fxdomains.com - they are cheap and reliable!

namecheap.com only 8.88 a year