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3 points·teccmo··5 comments

It's strange. I've talked about all of this with a lot of people, and some people understand why I dig iWantMyName, and some people think I'm insane. It comes down to whether or not price is your #1 concern.

I don't buy a ton of domains, so I'm more than willing to pay a little extra so I don't have to wade through registrar bullshit. It's not just GoDaddy, although they're the most egregious example.

I particularly enjoy iWantMyName because they're startup-centric: they have one-button DNS setup for GitHub Pages, Heroku, Google Apps, bit.ly, Tumblr... man, a whole slew of services, really. I just feel more comfortable with everything. And that's worth the extra bucks to me.

I love gandi.net. Excellent service, easy to use all tld's and a free SSL cert with each domain.

I also use 1and1 as well as Dotster in the past - but will be moving all my domains over to gandi.net over time.

Most of my domains are with Moniker, they are king as far as security goes. I'm also satisfied with Dream Host as a registrar, they have free privacy and it is super easy to transfer away from.

Hover.com is a new one that I've been hearing good things about and they are probably worth investigating.

Moniker has been just rubbish in terms of domain renewals. I gave it my PayPal and its automated emails said that yes, my domains are up for renewal, except they didn't and I almost lost them. It turned out that I needed to prepay in advance in order for auto-renewal to work. That's just stupid IMHO (they're not my bank) and clearly their automated system is wrong in what it thinks is happening.

Apart from that, they're OK.

How about 'donating to non-profits and honest' Gandi.net? They have been my registrar for many years, and I rent a Xen VPS from them. I have always been happy with their service and openness.

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