Re: [PLUG] Domain Registrar recommendations

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

On 11/23/13 1:33 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> I just got a renewal notice from GoDaddy (yeah, I know) for two domains.
>
> .net $ 16.99/year
> .org $ 17.99/year
>
> At those prices I'm thinking of a different registrar. Well, that and:
>
> I can call them and they'll back off on the price to keep me as a
> customer but why don't they just give me a fair price up front?
>
> I had to spend half and hour on their site to find and disable
> the auto-renew settings.
>
> They supported SOPA.
>
> They used to (and still might) delay domain transfers for an unreasonably
> long time.
>
> Their web site is a minimum of useful information embedded in a
> confusing blizzard of "trick" offers for things I don't need|want.
>
> I searched the email archives and found these (approximate) counts from 2008,
> 2010 & 2012:
>
> Registrar Recommendations
> ----------------------- ----------------
> NearlyFreeSpeech.com 2 (or more?)
> NameCheap.com 2 (or more?)
> Gandi.net 2
> 1and1.com 1 (I currently have 2 or 3 domains here)
> ZoneEdit.com 1
> Name.com 1
> LuckyRegister.com 1
>
> Any new thoughts and/or experiences?
> By the way, the site nodaddy.com is gone - godaddy bought it out!
> I have to wonder how much *that* cost them.
>
> Eric
>

I use NameCheap since I ditched GoDaddy several years ago. I've been
pleased with them. An open source project I'm involved with uses
Gandi.net because they're very supportive of the Open Source
community[1] (and our project, through the Software Freedom
Conservancy). If I leave NameCheap, I'd go to Gandi based on their
principles, but NameCheap has been good to me so I have no reason to
leave them at this time.

Regards

1 - http://en.gandi.net/supports/

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