I have 4 domains with godaddy that I now want to keep private. Since godaddy has free private records with 3 domain names, I contacted them to ask how to activate it. They gave me a totally useless response that basically said "pay for it or leave us alone".

So, I want to move my domains to a better registrar. Does anyone have suggestions? I like that godaddy accepts paypal.

I see 1and1.com only charges $6/name and includes a privitizing service. How good are they?

Thanks,
Jason

Namecheap ...

1and1 are useless. Forget about them.

RegisterFly offers free whois protection, but I encourage AGAINST transferring to them.

Namecheap offers this for a really reasonable price and I highly recommend them.

However, I strongly doubt that your attitude 'registrar who doesn't offers something for free is bad and I want to move my domains to a better one' will get you anywhere. Registrar's main business is keeping your domains secure, not offer something more. Usually those that offer lots are lacking in their main function.

Good luck!

P.S. I remember times when I paid GoDaddy something like $7-9 for proxy registration and thought it was a good deal... :)

Stan, my attitude is more a response to godaddy's attitude than anything else. They have a promo for people registering new domains with them; yet as a customer for many years, they won't extend me the same promo. It's just poor customer service.

I have been playing around and I've discovered if I register three new domains I can get private registrations added to everything I have with them. There is one domain I'd like to add, so I guess I can try and come up with two more.

I remember when godaddy charged $9 for a proxy registration and I thought it was a ripoff then. Anyone can start a business of offering their business name for contact information. At $2, it's not bad, it's just the feeling of being ripped off by them for registering mine one at a time and that other registrars offer it for free across the board.

I would not use Registerfly for anything important. I am transferring away from them for reasons such as as nameservers which were set a month or a year ago all the sudden are removed from my account and thus the domain stops resolving. Customer support is just poor or useless at best. Reply's from staff are off topic and sometimes just rude. I purchased a special tld (domain.us.com for example) and the nameservers refuse to save for more than an hour. It's been a year and support promised me when they revamp their site the problem would be corrected. The domain is up to be renewed and the problem still persists. I read posts here that said RF was poor and to stay away from them. At the time I was happy with them. I wish I had taken those posts serious as they have not done well by me.

I have been playing around and I've discovered if I register three new domains I can get private registrations added to everything I have with them. There is one domain I'd like to add, so I guess I can try and come up with two more.

I think it only applies to the 3 new domains - not to everything you have with them.

From their site:
"Make any Domain Name Private
$8.95/yr NOW JUST $1.95/yr!
(Plus domain registration fee.)

Register or Transfer three domain names or more and get FREE PRIVACY
on every domain you register on this order!"

You're right about what it says. But I added privacy for all my domains to the cart and it showed up at $2 each, then I added 3 new domains with privacy and all the privacies went to 0, for new and old domains.

Reliable registrars:

www.namecheap.com
www.moniker.com
www.dynadot.com

Good luck :)

That GoDaddy offer is only for the first year. When renewal comes around it's full price again. iirc $8.95.

There is no doubt in my mind that NameCheap is the best deal in town. It's free for the first year, then it's $2.88 or 5 for $7.88. They're a reliable Enom reseller. One of the absolute best features is that the privacy is transferrable to other domains. Every other deal, the privacy is stuck with the domain it's registered with.