hi there!
some one knows gkg.net or godaddy.com as registrar ? some experience ?

regards,

i've never had experience with godaddy.com, they always reject all my card for some reason i'm not to aware of..

gkg.net seems alright, the support is fast and friendly
why don't you give it a try ?

i also love registering domain with domaindiscover.com, joker.com ...

I've been using http://www.directnic.com for about a year now. They've been great. I think most opensrs registrars are pretty decent.

Originally posted by tabernack
I've been using http://www.directnic.com for about a year now. They've been great. I think most opensrs registrars are pretty decent.

I agree... OpenSRS is a good registrar. I registered a few domains at $1/yr when Register.com/Staples.com had their special last year, and I'll be transferring them to OpenSRS when it's time to renew.

As for directNIC, there's one thing you need to be careful about: If you use their redirection service and then switch to a regular hosting solution elsewhere (therefore requiring the change of your DNS info), expect a day or two of downtime. The reason is that they remove the redirection info from their servers right away; but in the meantime, your new DNS info hasn't propagated out to everyone on the Internet. Until it does, they'll get a "site not found" kind of message.



Rehan
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CompareDomainRegistrars.com ... coming REAl soon now

YES .. i agree the opensrs is VERY good registrar
i love their 'domain management'

btw i recently testing transfer procedure from
several registrar to another... you guys might want to add your experience here
(this confirmation is not the confirmation from your new registrar to admin contact on the whois database)

networksolutions.com (no confirmation needed)
CORE-80 - totalnic.net (no confirmation needed)
dotregistrar.com (no confirmation needed)
joker.com (confirmation via email and confirmation code)
gkg.net (confirmation via web with password)
domaindiscover.com (ask their support to UNLOCK you domain)
nominalia.net (no confirmation + $35 tranfer fee )

Originally posted by Rehan

As for directNIC, there's one thing you need to be careful about: If you use their redirection service and then switch to a regular hosting solution elsewhere (therefore requiring the change of your DNS info), expect a day or two of downtime. The reason is that they remove the redirection info from their servers right away; but in the meantime, your new DNS info hasn't propagated out to everyone on the Internet. Until it does, they'll get a "site not found" kind of message.


So does eNom, apparently :(

One word Dotster.com :)

-BW

i've recently went with registerfly (enom's reseller)
and realized that i've made a mistake

on the 4th of April, ill be transferring that domain to either stargateinc.com or 000domains.com

im leaning towards stargateinc.com right now because of their price ($10) and their live support

ill let you know how it goes with startgateinc :)

im using http://www.dotster.com
they're the best!

One of our newer members, patrickw runs an OpenSRS registrar and charges $12, which ain't bad :)
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=7283

-figure I'll put in a good word for him since the OpenSRS registrar I'd usually recommend is the same price.

Originally posted by Chicken

-figure I'll put in a good word for him since the OpenSRS registrar I'd usually recommend is the same price.

What _is_ the opensrs reseller you normally recommend? :)

Weblaunching.net ($12), which is just a tad lower than the other OpenSRS registrar that people seem to like, 000domains.com ($13.50).

Originally posted by Chicken
Weblaunching.net ($12), which is just a tad lower than the other OpenSRS registrar that people seem to like, 000domains.com ($13.50).

I've seen lots of recommendations for WebLaunching... Why is it so well liked? Is it only because of the price (relative to other OpenSRS resellers)?

Well, their support is good, and the price is lower than most of the other OpenSRS registrars, but like I said, I always think it is nice to go with the locals (so to speak) and the price is the same, so maybe give patrick a shot and let us know how it goes?

If OpenSRS resellers could do the pricing I'd like, I'd never have abandoned them. I really like the system for a number of reasons. If I only had one or two domains... (at over 45, I need to save some cash...)

Originally posted by alpha
i've recently went with registerfly (enom's reseller)
and realized that i've made a mistake


I have names at both. I would like to hear why you feel registerfly was a mistake, if you don't mind sharing.
Gary

i really liked the price and the look of registerfly, and since most WHT users praised registerfly, i went with them...

one of the major things i needed from my registrar was the ability to create name servers for the domains i owned...

i didn't see anything like this at registerfly's domain manager so i emailed the support team... they emailed me back couple days later saying that they were sorry that the email took so long but their mail server was down...

that whole week after i registered with registerfly, their site was down, their domain manager was inaccessible for a time... also i asked them about the nameservers believing that registerfly would create the nameservers for me without problems... but $9.99 per nameserver

what in da world... even NetSol doesn't charge for creating nameservers... but registerfly did, so i got ticked off

today is the 60th day in which i registered my domain, and i will be requesting registrar transfer to stargateinc.com

stargate is $10, and since they even off live support (humanclick) they were very friendly and very fast replies to questions

its not that i don't like registerfly, but its just the fact that I prefer the service and manageability that stargate offers over registerfly

and besides, alot of WHT users have been complaining about turtle with four broken legs slow support from eNom... which is where registerfly get their service from

later

So far, I haven't had the best of experiences with RegisterFly either. I submitted a request to transfer a domain over to them on 3/24/01 and just today received notice that the transfer is going through. All of the transfers I've done through DirectNIC, Dotster, or Gandi.net have taken only 1 - 3 days.

stargateinc.com surprises me almost daily

ok, since today (4.4.2001) was the exact 60th day of my original domain registration... i went over to stargate and used their transferxpress thing which was pretty cool...

filled out info, then at the last step... BAM!
Application Error...

I emailed the support... then went to check if their live support was online... a guy named Josh was on humanclick

he asked me to copy/paste and email him the whole page

so i did, he said he'll get it fixed as soon as he can

30min later, i got an email from josh saying everything was working now, thanking me for alerting them of the error

fill out again, done BAM boom bom!
transfer application completed and my domain will be transferred over to stargate by 5 business days :)

talk about nice service!
i will post more about stargate after the registrar transfer is completed :)

(if stargate doesn't work out as planned, ill be moving to 000domains... never hurt to try registrars... it's just adding more years to your domain registration when you transfer ... most of the time anyways) :)

ciao,
john

Godaddy is quite solid.

8.95 domains, how can you beat it.

Joe

Although there are better prices out there, I still use 000domains. I've never had a problem, and they are quick to reply to my emails.

Never had serious problems with them, except one time when my password for about 3-4 domains stopped working. Emailed the support and it got reset the following day.

Hello
Just catching up with some of these threads.

Chicken:
OpenSRS are not budging on price.
I know - I have tried!
They used to run a promotion where if you put a Tucows banner on your front page and you were registering over 100 domain years per month you got them at $9.
That has stopped now.
They have also stonewalled any suggestion of a tiered discount for larger resellers.

I know several opensrs resellers who have moved to other sources because of the pricing issue.
I know that at the volume we sell at I could get the cost price down to $7 and sell at $10 but I don't have as much confidence in some of these other companies.

I don't think you will see an openSRS reseller go below $12 because at 5% credit card commission that just leaves $1.40 per domain profit.
$11 would leave you with $0.45 profit.

Buying at $7 and selling at $10 would make $2.50 (actually more than selling at $12 through OpenSRS)
Isn't maths amazing!

Gordon

Originally posted by nachopo
hi there!
some one knows gkg.net or godaddy.com as registrar ? some experience ?
I registered 4 domains with godaddy (99servers.com/.net and saburovo.com/.net) - very fast and cheap. No problems!

Yeah Gordon, I know the issue was (and most likely still is) hot in their discussion groups, but they know they don't have to lower the price. people have the system in place, and their only option wouold be to provide dual login interfaces (confusing for the customer), for another system. DomainZero has something like that and it doesn't look all that pretty to say the least.

I'm sure OpenSRS registrars are looking at other sources since the price they pay as 'bulk resellers' is over $1 more than what individuals can buy single domains for elsewhere. That bugged me, and I'm sure it bugs them.

They do however have one of the better systems out there, if not *the* best. I haven't used every registrar's system so I'm not entirely sure.

Alpha-- How do you like stargateinc now? I am leaning towards them now, but would like to know if you like them as much as you thought you would.

What if they go out of biz? Anyone know if we would/wouldn't have problems getting our domains back?

btw: I have learned a lot lurking around here.
Thanks! :)

Originally posted by alpha
talk about nice service!
i will post more about stargate after the registrar transfer is completed :)

My Transfers from Joker.com/CoreNIC to Stargate needed 1-2 Day's :D

I'm also very Happy with Stargateinc, the Prices are good and the Service is great.

We have been using Registrars.com since they started a few years ago, whats great about them is once you signup with their partner program, they have what Netsol has, a email templete

We spent a few hours, banged together a php script and now all our customers just need to fill out 1 form and the domains registered within minutes.