[ale] Preferred domain registrars?

[Mark Heiges]

I have 19 business and personal domains registered with  
namecheap.com . I've been happily using them for about 4 years. They  
were formerly an eNom reseller but got ICANN accredited a couple of  
years ago.

Pros: <$10/domain (you can often find coupons with a quick Google  
search); no hidden fees or BS sales pitches; no sales spam from them;  
useable management control panel; they respond quickly to trouble  
tickets, forum posts and chats; if you have a lot of domains and  
access to a programmer, NC provides an account management API

Cons: occasional technical glitches - worst case, their nameservers  
have twice had hours-long outages (leaving all my domains unreachable  
by the world) since I've been with them (there is no requirement to  
use their nameservers)

On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Björn Gustafsson wrote:

> True. I'm happy with my hosting provider, but not so happy that I want
> them to manage my domain registration.
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions so far!
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com 
> > wrote:
>> To be clear, domain registration is very different from web hosting.
>> And in my experience you are best off not using the same company for
>> both.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Paul Cartwright  
>> <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue January 19 2010, Björn Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have recommendations for registrars that handle .net
>>>> domain names and cost around $10/year?  I've been going through the
>>>> ICANN list alphabetically, so far dotster.com doesn't look horrible
>>>> and has the cheapest transfer rate at $7 for the first year.   
>>>> They're
>>>> also lucky 13 on the registrar rankings at webhosting.info.  Any
>>>> good/bad experiences with dotster?
>>>
>>> reviews of hosting for under $10 a month:
>>> http://webhostinggeeks.com/
>>>
>>> the one I picked, first emails I sent to bellsouth/AT&T people was  
>>> blocked...
>
> -- 
> Björn Gustafsson
>
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