Re: [PLUG] Domain Registrar recommendations

--Matt

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@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
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