Domain Registrar choices
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I currently have my personal domains registered via GoDaddy.
I have no problem with GoDaddy as a registrar, but most of my personal domains are coming up for renewal in the next few weeks. I felt it was time to shop around.
$14.99/year for the first domain and added discounts for each one after that. Not an unfair price, but I want to see what else is out there.
Of note, this is only the registrar. DNS and hosting is not with GoDaddy.
Suggestions?
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They stopped offering discount coupons a while back. If you have enough domains then you can save money with their discount club.
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Before I answered I had to look at mine. I am hosted via Host Monster, but the registry shows Fast Domain Inc. It just auto renewed - and it shows that I've been there 10 years.... wow,... didnt think it had been that long.
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GoDaddy is the best registrar that I've found (not that I've used a lot of different ones.) We used Register for years and their prices are insane (in a bad way) and their services are no better than GoDaddy. We don't like that they do a bunch of "the interface doesn't let you do this without calling us but we make it look like it does so that we can charge you" stuff and have lost thousands of dollars to what amounts to "domain name slamming" - we would cancel the credit card on a domain since not-renewing them isn't an option with Register (you can call in and beg them to stop renewing it, but in their web interface the buttons that do that don't do anything because they claim they don't want you to "accidentally" not renew a domain!!!!)
We move everything that we can from Register to GoDaddy and it saves us like 50-70% per domain and we feel much better about GoDaddy as a company.
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@scottalanmiller said:
GoDaddy is the best registrar that I've found (not that I've used a lot of different ones.)
I have used a lot of different ones. Namecheap is the best by far.
http://lifehacker.com/5943452/five-best-domain-name-registrars
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I know people using NameCheap, have not used them myself.
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I've had hosted and non hosted sites GoDaddy was one, I've also used blogspot.com & WordPress. Just depends on what your preference is.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
I have used a lot of different ones. Namecheap is the best by far.
WTF is up with a bit.ly link? [F moderated] that. you could not just link to namecheap?
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@JaredBusch said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
I have used a lot of different ones. Namecheap is the best by far.
WTF is up with a bit.ly link? F[moderated] that. you could not just link to namecheap?
Looks like it's just an affiliate link. No biggy. https://www.namecheap.com/affiliates.aspx
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Looks like it's just an affiliate link. No biggy. https://www.namecheap.com/affiliates.aspx
I assumed that and thus my ire. [F moderated] that.
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@BMarie said:
I've had hosted and non hosted sites GoDaddy was one, I've also used blogspot.com & WordPress. Just depends on what your preference is.
It's only a question about registrars. I would never have a site or DNS hosted by any of them.
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I have tried others, but I always end up going back to Godaddy. You can always find coupons for your first year with a domain and its easy enough to cancel after the first year.
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I like namecheap
