Best Registrar?

[rubber30]

1. 000Domains
2. Enom.com
3. GoDaddy.com


Whats yours?

[boris]

Well, here in Germany I'd say providerdomain.de (http://www.providerdomain.de) is one of the best. Pretty cheap, good service, and you can also use their nameserver if you don't have your own.

[JustMe]

Godaddy is the cheapest and now the most secure with Lockdown to prevent hackers from stealing your domain name. They are ataking everybody to the cleaners by offering the best prices net wide. They don't believe in leather chairs, just ole' fashions down to earth no cover up accounting methods.

[Admin]

FYI, Enom also has that lockdown feature.

[ffeingol]

Originally posted by EnwTheGood
And enom seems a little expensive while not offering anything more than a godaddy website w/ a free host.


I don't think Admin ment eNom directly. There are 1,000's of eNom resellers and most are priced well below eNom's price. We're an eNom reseller (www.domainmaze.com) and we're quite a bit cheaper ;)

I'm working on a special offer for this community.

Frank

[ffeingol]

OK, I'm a little slow with the offer (got busy). Here it is http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137.

Frank

[BoR|S]

Some of those I prefer to use:

www.dot4less.com (com/net/org $13/y)
www.ns.com (com/net/org/info/biz $14/y)
www.isoc.org.il (co.il/org.il/net.il/k12.il/ac.il $60/2y)
www.nic.ru (ru $20/y su $100/y [temp shutdown])

[Waves]

My sister seems pretty happy with ipowerweb.com

[xxx]

I have used http://www.gandi.net and have been very pleased with them. No frills, inexpensive and easy.

[AMP]

I have almost a dozen Domains registered with GoDaddy.com.
Free forwarding and free lockdown make it the absolute best
value available.

They are currently running a special on Transfers and new .US
registrations ($6.95 /yr). Their special expires November 30.

www.GoDaddy.com

TC

[Zero Angel]

If you prefer to host on your own machine and would like a 'friendly' URL. http://www.dyndns.org offers free DNS services (for Dynamic IPs, Static IPs and the like), giving you several names to choose from, such as mysite.kicks-ass.net, mysite.homeip.net, etc.

[ByteWizard]

ffeingol...

MOST everything in the site offering looks good; BUT did I mis-read that you MUST use the web site generator to create a site registered there and that you cannot upload any code to your site if hosted by you?

Hope I did not read this correctly. Seems that offering a special on a web developers forum of this type might not be so appealing??

Joel

[ByteWizard]

I recently ran across http://www.powweb.com and it appears to have all the right parameters. Good site density per server, backup, UPS, et al. Does anyone have any experience with them either good or bad?

Joel

[The Maniac]

Hello all, first post here :)

Im from the UK and i use https://www.123-reg.co.uk as my registrar.

The facilities they offer are very good, better than most. I currently have purchased 15 domain names from them, the .co.uk are as low as 19p per year + registration costs thats around £5.20.

[technosoft21]

Yes, GoDaddy.com is one of the cheapest registrars around. Some (such as NetworkSolutions.com) charge you up to US$25 a year, and so at $8.95 per year, GoDaddy is very cheap. However, they are NOT the cheapest!

If you're really short of cash, try Aplus.net - they charge $7.95 per year (however, the service isn't as good as GoDaddy). If you are almost bankrupt, iRegistrations.com would be a good choice - they charge only US$5.95 per year. (I don't know how good iRegistrations is; I've never registered with them before.)

Personally, I am using Aplus.net, and have found the service to be not quite as good as GoDaddy. I will perhaps register with them or iRegistrations next time.

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Benjamin Choi
http://www.technosoft21.com/html-studio/

[themadpoet]

You can't beat the service at www.names.co.uk. They have a telephone support line number and everything.

I use them all the time for domain names and hosting

Elliott

[Anthony]

dye4domains.com

THis is THE ULTIMATE domain registrar. Their prices are cheaper than go daddy's and their support is great! I personally have 8 domains with them.

[netace]

For domain registrars, you can't beat the service and responsiveness of DirectNIC.com -- and price is not bad either, $15.00/yr for domain names .com/.net/.us/.org/.info/.biz/.ws

I have several domains with them and their service is excellent, as is their domain management function. URL forwarding free. Hosting is free with banner or pop-up. Bannerless is $15/yr or 2GB of bandwidth. Free e-mail forwards also.

If you need major hosting services, check out http://ace-host.net also an excellent service.

[MikeParent]

I use DomainPeople.com. I registered a new domain with them and discovered that one of my other sites (registered on my behalf by the most heinous Readyhosting) was registered there as well.. It was then a simple matter to regain control of the domain registration from Readyhosting.

[ziba]

I've used www.registerfly.com for three years now and have registered several domains through them. They provide a good range of features (excellent control panel, domain and email forwarding, free website space for each domain registered [no ftp - you have to use their site builder or file manager], cheap email hosting, domain protection, and others). Their prices are comparable with godaddy, and I've had no problems with the service. :cool:

[YBNormal]

Originally posted by JustMe
Godaddy is the cheapest and now the most secure with Lockdown to prevent hackers from stealing your domain name. They are ataking everybody to the cleaners by offering the best prices net wide. They don't believe in leather chairs, just ole' fashions down to earth no cover up accounting methods.

I completely agree with you. I have several domains registered through GoDaddy and have never had a problem. When I've called their customer support it has been handled quickly and very friendly.

[YBNormal]

Originally posted by Anthony
dye4domains.com

THis is THE ULTIMATE domain registrar. Their prices are cheaper than go daddy's and their support is great! I personally have 8 domains with them.

dye4domains is a GoDaddy reseller but they are not offering the lowest prices the resellers can offer. domaindo.com is another GoDaddy reseller who always offers the lowest prices possible. right now .us and .biz are 4.95 US per year.

[netprophet]

May I take this opportunity to formally introduce myself to those who do not yet know me. I am the NETPROPHET, the single largest private domain name buyer in the world.

I buy only .com domains and have in excess of 53,570 as of today.

I buy 250 a day on average and do not sell domains any longer.

I do not post many comments on forums and I will not respond to posts or emails [ sorry ]

For those who may doubt my credentials insert netprophet@revenue.com and WIPO into Google.

Now please take note as this post is for everyone's benefit/protection.

As you can imagine in over 10 years of domain buying I have seen, heard and experienced most things, including purchasing large amounts of domains from most of the prominent registrars, but only recently have I accidentally discovered a flaw.

As you can imagine one of my strategies is to allow certain members of the public into my "club" and to purchase domains under the umbrella of my buying power [ $3.65 ] unfortunately this has backfired recently when 2 of over 45 refills at Enom [ in other words $200 from a total of $3,670 ] were charged back by the credit card holders.

Enom's reaction was swift, abrupt, illegal and void of any normal business etiquette. Their in-house lawyers, namely Christine Graf and Martin Garthwaite blocked my access to all of my domains at Enom, over 1,000 all because of a $200 chargeback. They also demanded that I and my fellow partners sign documents to ensure that the remaining 43 refills [$3,470 ] were not going to be charged back by us ? why would we as it was only ever our intention to purchase domains and have access to them via Enom's website.

Leaving out a lot of unnecessary detail it transpires that Mr Garthwaite accidentally revealed that ENom could not do anything if any credit card transaction ever made to them was charged back !! they have no alternative but to refund the card holder at the credit card company request. In addition they are charged a $70 fee for each chargeback they incur by the CC companies.

As you must all be aware the profits in the domain name business are small. Enom pay what I pay for a domain, so they rely on scams, like Iregistrarions [ a ENom reseller ] or various marketing strategies to make their profits.

Our reaction when the Enom lawyers decided to start making business decisions of behalf of Enom direct to us [ a client ] was to threaten that unless they immediately allowed access to our domains [ by the way we did repay the $200 that had been charged back ] we would CHARGE BACK ALL OF OUR TRANSACTIONS.

Well Enom's response said it all and proves my point beyond doubt, they REFUNDED all of our payments to us immediately, in fear of us charging back those transactions and them not only suffering the lost of revenue , but the charge back fee per transaction from the credit card company and possibly loosing their ability to process any credit cards at all !

Imagine - the end of Enom .

So the moral of this true and up to date story is IF ANYONE wanted to cause havoc to this industry then we would simply all just have to charge back any credit card transaction, no matter when it was made .... There is no mechanism for these registrars to counter the claim, there is no appeal procedure then can exercise, if the credit card company charges back, that's it.

SO imagine how many charge backs Iregistrations must have incurred with their scam ? no wonder they were forced to change their name to EZInames [ same company ] read this small print when registering at EZInames [ which comes at the very end of the registration process ] " If you wish to cIf you wish to cancel them you can by simply logging into you account. There is absolutely no obligation to keep these services active. To continue these services simply do nothing and they will remain active. An amount of $599 will be charged to your credit card annually in advance for these services after the free trial ends should you elect to keep them active. There is absolutely no obligation to keep these services active, if you cancel them during the 7 day free trial you will not be charged anything for them. We can only offer this setup and trial for new accounts with ezinames not second third and subsequent domains. Cancel them you can by simply logging into you account. There is absolutely no obligation to keep these services active. To continue these services simply do nothing and they will remain active. An amount of $599 will be charged to your credit card annually in advance for these services after the free trial ends should you elect to keep them active. There is absolutely no obligation to keep these services active, if you cancel them during the 7 day free trial you will not be charged anything for them. We can only offer this setup and trial for new accounts with ezinames not second third and subsequent domains. "

Don't be taken in by the free domain offer the same applies.

So let me make this very clear... if anyone or your credit card companies tell you they can not charge back a charge that is not correct and against their own policies. You can, as the "seller" has no signed receipt by you, and in today's internet age you would think that credit card companies would protect their merchants but they do not. If the seller of any product does not have your signature you have the ability to dispute or charge back that payment, end of story, period.

Armed with that knowledge can you imagine how many people who saw themselves as domain collectors or domain entrepreneurs, may now decide it would be better to have the funds back than have the domains ? think about it ?? you may have had use of the domain for a year or so and now if you wanted you could get your money back.

Finally do not use PayPal to buy domains, as they have a 30 day period, and if you have not complained by then they say you cannot. I am challenging that right now as like many people I use a credit card to top-up my PayPal account , so I will charge back those payments I made to PayPal.

Mr Paul Stahura the CEO and founder of Enom , hides behind his desk and allows in-house lawyers to ruin his business and fraudulent people/companies to act as resellers like Iregistrations and EZInames. think about that also , it's better for Enom to let the reseller do the illegal stuff and take the credit card companies flack than them directly, hence the reseller network.

Also beware DIRECTNIC [ same tactics as the above]

Regards to you all

THE NETPROPHET

[ious]

I use WSDREG.COM as my domain registrar. The prices are so affordable, .INFO domains are currently on a bargain sale which is a bonus! When I e-mail WSDREG, they reply within about 20 minutes. Oh, and registerfly.com domain prices are also a very low rate.

[mystickcal]

I really like godaddy.com because I can call them anytime I like. I just don't like that the number is long distance but I got Skype. Skype allows you to call them long distance for free until end of this year. I use godaddy.com for my dedicated servers. I love every minute of it.

[chompz]

I use godaddy as well. I have had nothing but good things to say about them and I really appreciate their top notch customer service.

[PsychoticDude85]

Personally, I use namecheap, it's not the cheapest, but I've never had any problems and $8.88 for a domain and a whoisguard included isn't bad.

I have heard too much bad about godaddy to use that, freezing domains for no good reason and then charging you to get it back etc.

[Terminator1138]

There is other reasons why domains are cheap, less features that you have to pay for like registrar locking and little things like the fact their dns goes haywire more.

[micabyte]

I m using http://ezydomainregister.com
You may try that. It's quite cheap and reliable.
8) Use this code '5NC25' for 5% discounts if you order over $25.
Not sure it still works. Let's try. Just put in your cart b4 payment.

[cool0]

1. 000Domains
2. Enom.com
3. GoDaddy.com


Whats yours?

My suggestion means tucktail.com is the best registrar. They are providing the services like new domain register, transfer the domain, renew the domain & web hosting etc @ cheaper cost. They are the reseller of godaddy. For further u can visit the site http://www.tucktail.com/

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