I made sure I didn't ask for a "cheap" registrar! :)

I wondered if any of you could recommend a quality domain registrar where I can easily access management of the domain (or domain(s)) via a control panel in order to change name servers or to update contact info as needed. I was with one company for a while last year and when it came time to try and transfer the domains to new owner I had tons of trouble with them allowing me to do so. Yet their software was supposed to allow me to transfer the domain to someone else. (transferring ownership from myself to someone else)

I would like a reasonable priced domain registrar as well that costs $15.00 or less a year. I have seen some much cheaper than that like Go Daddy, but didn't know what their reputation was like.

Any advice?

thanks!

Seek out any eNom (http://www.enom.com) reseller... like, for example, Domain Guru (http://www.domainguru.com), just to name one. He's priced right where you want to be, yet he's not so low-priced that he has to skimp on support if you need it. You'll find other eNom resellers that charge less, but... well... sometimes I think it's true that you get what you pay for.

There are other registrars besides eNom (http://www.enom.com), of course. And many of them are really quite good. But if you really and truly do your homework and compare apples to apples, you'll find -- to the surprise and even disbelief of some in these forums, it seems -- that, pound for pound, eNom (http://www.enom.com) is about as good as it gets.

Doubt me and presume I have a bias if you will. But I kid you not... eNom (http://www.enom.com)'s the way to go. To avoid eNom (http://www.enom.com)'s relatively steep retail prices, find a good eNom (http://www.enom.com) reseller and you'll still get every last feature and the same quality of service as if you'd signed-up directly on the eNom (http://www.enom.com) site, yet you'll have paid significantly less.

That's my recommendation. Accept or reject it as you see fit.

I suggest 000domains.com

They are $13.5 but their support responds in less than an hour :) I have never had any problem with them and I register important domains with them.

If you are going to create nameservers their interface does this online. Their interface is able to modify/delete nameservers too while with enom you should ask enom's support to do these for you.

Mac

I have had excellent luck with 000domains.com in the past.

I'm also an eNom reseller, but since this is not an advertising forum, I won't give the name/link. If you're interested, PM me.

Frank

Namecheap! Enom reseller, very popular with the people here. Do a search and you'll know what I mean.

GODADDY!

Originally posted by DesElms
Seek out any eNom (http://www.enom.com) reseller... like, for example, Domain Guru (http://www.domainguru.com), just to name one. He's priced right where you want to be, yet he's not so low-priced that he has to skimp on support if you need it. You'll find other eNom resellers that charge less, but... well... sometimes I think it's true that you get what you pay for.

There are other registrars besides eNom (http://www.enom.com), of course. And many of them are really quite good. But if you really and truly do your homework and compare apples to apples, you'll find -- to the surprise and even disbelief of some in these forums, it seems -- that, pound for pound, eNom (http://www.enom.com) is about as good as it gets.

Doubt me and presume I have a bias if you will. But I kid you not... eNom (http://www.enom.com)'s the way to go. To avoid eNom (http://www.enom.com)'s relatively steep retail prices, find a good eNom (http://www.enom.com) reseller and you'll still get every last feature and the same quality of service as if you'd signed-up directly on the eNom (http://www.enom.com) site, yet you'll have paid significantly less.

That's my recommendation. Accept or reject it as you see fit.
From an enom reseller you wont get every feature like free hosting, adding name servers, those services have to go throguh the reseller. I got me one for 8.00 currently enom style. However the owner is barely at his computer.

Originally posted by Global-Host2
From an enom reseller you wont get every feature like free hosting, adding name servers, those services have to go throguh the reseller.
That's just not true... at least not in every case. It just depends on how the eNom reseller has set you up. And in that sense, maybe I shouldn't have said that you could go to any eNom reseller. Indeed there are many eNom resellers who limit their customers' ability to manage their domains to either a limited customization of the eNom API, or to the generic, tan interface at http://access.enom.com, or to a Registry Rocket interface. And, it's true that in any of those three cases, each and every last eNom feature may not be accessible.

But there are eNom resellers who have either so customized the eNom API and/or have basically completely rebuilt it so that their customers may themselves of all of eNom's features -- including both of the ones that you mention.

And eNom resellers that utilize eNom's new PDQ interface are also able to offer virtually all of eNom's features -- including the free web site builder.

Finally, any eNom reseller can give his customers a retail eNom account with a Log-in ID and password that will work directly on the eNom web site. In that case, the retail customer may log-in on the eNom web site and may use all of its features in exactly (and I mean exactly) the same way as if the customer had signed-up for a free retail account directly with eNom, but with the added benefit that the customer enjoys the lower pricing that the reseller set for him -- even perhaps as low as the $8 figure you quoted when eNom's retail price is $29. And, of course, in that case, the customer may avail himself of each and every last one of eNom's features -- including the free web site building and including the ability to add name servers.

Originally posted by Global-Host2
I got me one for 8.00 currently enom style. However the owner is barely at his computer.
I presume by "the owner is barely at his computer," you mean that he is not available to you for support as often as you would like. If so, then please refer to the very first paragraph of my words which you quoted in your posting wherein I wrote:

"He's priced right where you want to be, yet he's not so low-priced that he has to skimp on support if you need it. You'll find other eNom resellers that charge less, but... well... sometimes I think it's true that you get what you pay for. "

Priced at $8, and taking merchant fees into consideration, your eNom reseller is making, at most, a dollar and change. And that's only if your reseller is extremely large and had initially funded his eNom reseller account with thousands of dollars and is, therefore, now getting eNom's lowest possible price. If the reseller is a bit smaller and is not getting eNom's lowest possible price, then, I assure you, after merchant fees, he's making just pennies... quite literally, just pennies.

Were you the reseller, for that kind of profit, would you be at your computer much?

And so, therefore, was I not dead-on when I suggested in my original post that, in the end, one pretty much gets what one pays for? And where in this life have you found that not to be true, when it comes right dow to it? I mean, really? You get what you pay for. Period. It's as simple as that. Just do a search in these forums on the word "registerfly" and see what happens when an eNom reseller charges too little and can't afford to hire enough people to keep up with support tickets. And there are other eNom resellers (and resellers of other registrars, too, I dare say) that have made the same mistake. I won't list them all here... there are too many to mentioin. But do a search in these forums -- limiting your search to the domain forums -- and search on terms like "support" and "hasn't answered" and you'll begin to get the picture. In fact, search in any of the forums on phrases like that and you'll begin to see postings about both the domain resellers and the hosting companies that have gotten into that pickle.

This is one of my pet peeves about this damned business. Hosting companies and domain resellers think they need to give the service away in order to be competitive. They want the quick dollar and so they price themselves impossibly low and then they become inundated with support requests and have no way to afford to hire the help without raising prices -- which they're afraid to do. So they become unresponsive -- or at least it feels to their customers that way because it starts taking days or even weeks for them to respond to their support tickets. Consequently they go from popular favorites in these forums to being characterized as the anti-christ. How many times have we seen this? And, therefore, at what point will new hosting companies and domain resellers learn the simple business truth that the Harvard business school has been espousing for at least a century and maybe two: You can't make-up for lost margin with volume!

A new hosting company or domain reseller cannot begin such a new enterprise without adequate funding to keep the business alive while it grows to profitability. Most jump in and give away the store just to get tons of customers but then they don't have the money to hire adequate staff to support the business. And then they end-up with customers who feel like you do.

So, Global-Host2, I apologize to you and to merci, who started this thread -- and to all who've stopped-by to read it -- for suggesting that merci could go to any eNom reseller. I guess maybe I should have said "most any" or something like that. I'm an eNom reseller and, like ffeingol, what I really wanted to tell him/her was that I could create an eNom retail account beneath my eNom reseller account that could be logged-in to directly on the eNom web site; and that I could give him/her the price and features that he/she specified and he/she would have been happy as a clam because at that price I could afford to support him/her. That's sort of what I was trying to say when I referred him/her to an eNom reseller that was priced right where he/she wanted to be and was not deep-discounting to the point that it could not support him/her. But we're not allowed to toot our own horns in this part of these forums, and so to keep Chicken or one of the other moderators from editing-out my words here, I hereby swear on my honor that I will recuse myself and will not take merci as a customer in any case so that I can speak here freely. And I would not take you on as a customer, Global-Host2 -- in part for the same reason, but mostly because I wouldn't offer an $8 price even with a gun to my head. And that's because I won't try to make-up for lost margin with volume. I'd rather have a few happy customers who like my services than thousands who want me dead. If more resellers would adopt that philosphy and hold the line on pricing, this wouldn't be such a whore's market!

If merci would find an eNom reseller that has either so customized the API (or built a comprehensive interface from scratch) that it allows the customer to have pretty much all of eNom's features, or if merci finds one that is using the PDQ interface (like Domain Guru (http://register.domainguru.com), for example), then I believe he/she will be happy. And if merci finds an eNom reseller that will simply give him/her a retail eNom account with a Log-in ID and password right on the eNom web site, then there will be no eNom feature of which he/she may not avail himself/herself.

Finally, Global-Host2, all may not be lost for you when it comes to support. If your eNom reseller whom you say is "barely at his computer" has you managing your domain via the generic, tan interface at http://access.enom.com and/or via the tan Registry Rocket interface, then you may certainly contact eNom's tech support staff directly and they will help you. You may be that eNom reseller's customer, but you're also an eNom customer and eNom will support you if it can. And if you're using either of the eNom tan interfaces, eNom's support can certainly help you because those interfaces were created by eNom and run on its servers, not the reseller's. Only if your eNom reseller is having you manage everything through his customized API would eNom's staff have a bit of a problem helping you since, after all, they have no back-end access to the reseller's customized API.

Hope that helps.

Merci,

I'd like to recommend NameCheap (http://www.namecheap.com) . I know their name has the word 'cheap' in it, but from my experience, their service is great. I've done research on this forum, and you'll find many people who like NameCheap. They are an eNom reseller and that is a plus among the WHT members.

My best recommendation is that if you find 2 or 3 registrars you like, you could register a domain on each, that way, within a year, you'll find that one you like best. :)

Hope that helps,

Jessica

I've had no problems with http://www.domainsnext.com

they're not the cheapest around, but they have been just fine for me. :)

I do not want anyone to think I am affiliated with them. But the same questions are being asked. So my answer will remain the same; www.PowerPipe.com :)

Originally posted by Styles
I do not want anyone to think I am affiliated with them. But the same questions are being asked. So my answer will remain the same; www.PowerPipe.com :)

Styles, PowerPipe looks interesting, although I'd say, their site needs a little bit of work. Do you know if they offer Domain Lock included in the registration price?

Jessica

Jessica; Yes all domains registered through them are locked/protected
from being hijacked and or prevent any transfer errors.

Good luck.

That's the eNom default, isn't it?

I'm assuming so if Powerpipe has it.

I am very happy with ooodomains (http://ooodomains.com).

Styles - Thanks for the info. I'll keep an eye on them. :)

Jessica

I'll give my vote for 000domains... their support is faster then ... hmmm, a cop chasing a runaway vehicle :D

i have my many domains with this registar and they seems to have good web based domain control panel..also their domains are jsut $8.88/year (www.yrhost.com)

www.000domains.com
They always respond within 1 hour to emailed requests & questions.
Fast, reliable , professional and friendly.
They also accept int'l postal money orders.
They are an OpenSRS reseller but are also set up as their own registrar.

:D

I have used FirstNS.com in the past a reseller of eNom but only because its easy to use and i always just change the nameserver names to ours.