I use 1&1, and just do the "buy and forget" method.

I haven't heard anything crazy about their DNS either...

FWIW- I just switched to http://theparsec.com/ for domain registration- very good service, not the cheapest bust reasonable. I had a problem moving one of my domains- got it sorted out, and had a personal welcome from a real person.
Like my "in progress" move to linode, I did quite a bit of searching and research before going with them (one reason I chose TheParsec is that they are a Tucows reseller, which made transfer easier).


Ooh... my first post .

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I really love namecheap.com .... Regular price is $9.69 per year, but you can usually find coupons out on the web. There's a current coupon out that if you google for namecheap coupon codes, you get a domain for $8.81 for the first year. Sometimes I've seen namecheap adjust it's price and go from $9 to $7, etc..

I've had several domains with namecheap since around 2001, and have never had anything bad happen. I've also never heard any horror stories that you hear with GoDaddy. I even remember one time when some random person called me up and asked me some weird questions, and asked me what my email address was. I don't remember much of the conversation or who he said he was, but it sounded legit to me at the time, back in like 2003 when I had about 70 domains with NameCheap. So after getting off the phone with him, I wondered. I checked my email and saw that this guy took one of my domains and transferred it to another account.

After emailing NameCheap about it, they transferred the domain back to my account, no questions asked.

NameCheap is hands down, the best domain registrar I've worked with. I'd say they are the equivalent of Linode in the domain market.

Namecheap's domain control panel is pretty easy to work with. Also not to mention, they provide a free 1 year WhoisGuard subscription, and sometimes they'll even provide a free 1 year subscription of SSL.


Edit: I also should add that these are the types of things that make the BBB come in handy. This is why when I experience wrong situations with businesses that refuse to resolve something that is not my fault, I contact the BBB and am so happy that they exist. I have a very high success rate, in fact I would be wrong to say it is anything other than 100%. This almost makes me want to register a domain with GoDaddy and dare them to mess with me, but it's really just a waste of my time.

If you experience such things regardless of which business or service it is, just contact the BBB. They work like a charm, believe me. Unfortunately, not everyone knows about the BBB, but now you folks do. I've seen companies jump and satisfy me after threatening them by saying "I suppose I will have better luck with the BBB then"