[Pro] Registrar Recommendations Please

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I want to move from GoDaddy. Have about a dozen names, none expiring soon.

Does anyone have a recommendation? The 5x5 podcast recommends EasyDNS (a sponsor). On a blog I saw that someone was moving from GoDaddy to Hover.

TIA, Ted

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I have been using NameCheap for years now - http://www.namecheap.com/. Have over 40 domains registered with them. In all these years I have only submitted two customer support tickets and both times the experience was painless.

The thing I hate about GoDaddy is their never ending attempts to up-sell. You can never just do one thing without being bombarded with extra options and features. I suppose it’s a great biz model selling unnecessary rubbish to gullible consumers.

Marcel

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GD’s domain Registration/management service is fine - no need to move that.

It is their peculiarities with hosting that give grief.

So move hosting by all means but leave Domain management.

David

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I agree with David.

If you ever do have a problem GoDaddy will answer the phone and speak to you.

I register domains and SSL certificates at GoDaddy and host locally.

Dale Josephson
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On Oct 28, 2011, at Friday6:10 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

GD’s domain Registration/management service is fine - no need to move that.

It is their peculiarities with hosting that give grief.

So move hosting by all means but leave Domain management.

David

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Not to mention the SCALPER MENTALITY…(Go Daddy)

-Invest in some clever names and sell them for a fortune and get rich!-
type banners - lots of real estate on the go daddy site.

A variation of my ‘buisness’ name Class-e-Ads.com (which I have never decided if I like at all), classeads.com can be had (last checked) for about 4k $.

This name is in their possession and it may have been the one I registered with them cheap or “free” years ago. Now they ‘own’ it, reregistering year after year.

Creeps.

Frank H.

On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Helveticus wrote:

I have been using NameCheap for years now - http://www.namecheap.com/. Have over 40 domains registered with them. In all these years I have only submitted two customer support tickets and both times the experience was painless.

The thing I hate about GoDaddy is their never ending attempts to up-sell. You can never just do one thing without being bombarded with extra options and features. I suppose it’s a great biz model selling unnecessary rubbish to gullible consumers.

Marcel

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Yep. Gotta give em a point for that.

Frank H.

On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Dale Josephson wrote:

I agree with David.

If you ever do have a problem GoDaddy will answer the phone and speak to you.

I register domains and SSL certificates at GoDaddy and host locally.

Dale Josephson
Dale Josephson Consulting
Apple Developer & Support

On Oct 28, 2011, at Friday6:10 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

GD’s domain Registration/management service is fine - no need to move that.

It is their peculiarities with hosting that give grief.

So move hosting by all means but leave Domain management.

David

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I like Namecheap. I have been using them for a few years now. They are very straightforward.

I hate GoDaddy.

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