Domain Registration

[wct097]

Who do you currently use for domain registration? I've got about 14 domains currently, 13 of which will be renewed in 2014. I'm trying to decide if I want to renew with Godaddy or go elsewhere. I'm only interested in registration and the ability to manage my DNS. Most of my domains are .coms, with three .nets and one .cc.

Mainly interested in price and management interface. Godaddy's site sucks, IMO, but it's workable once you get into the domain manager.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

Screw GoDaddy...

I moved all the domains I intend to renew to Name.com over the past year. Have a few left on Network Solutions but those won't be renewed when they expire in 2015.

 

[wct097]

Why?

 

[BirdOPrey5]

GoDaddy and Network Solutions had added so much crap every time I did something.. Do you want to add email hosting, do you want to add web hosting, do you want fries with that? etc... Plus they make it so difficult to leave. I had only intended to move a couple domains but then they screwed me over so I moved them all.

Name.com is a lot cheaper too. Cleaner interface- not all the junk GoDaddy shoves in your face.

When GoDaddy didn't release one of the domains Name.com refunded me back automatically without any effort on my part.

 

[wct097]

I may look into Name.com when my domains come up for renewal. Godaddy's fluff really annoys me too.

 

[Road Head]

Godaddy works fine for us. I registered our domain and used a website template and added text/pics. Does what we need it to do.

 

[Justin]

NetSol & Dot5

 

[wct097]

Just had my first renewal come up for the year. Decided to start migrating to Name.com. Looks like I can transfer and add whois privacy for less than renewing with Godaddy. Seems like a win to me.

 

[developer]

GoDaddy
TBoyyed

pretty happy with those

 

[BirdOPrey5]

My problem with GoDaddy is all the junk they try to get you to buy even when all you want is basic registration- plus they make it very difficult to leave.

I had some domains there all of which had domain privacy/whois guard. So I tried to transfer domain- well first you need to shut off domain privacy- this results in a change to your whois listing. Well GoDadyd policy is you can't transfer a domain for 60 days after you change your whois listing- so the transfer was denied. There was an email address to appeal to - do I did and explained it was only changed because they said I had to disable it before transferring - and they denied the appeal. So I then decided that I would transfer ALL my domains away from GoDaddy- even if would take 60 days, and so i did- name.com is both cheaper and has better service and support.