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I'm taking a stab at simple registrations and management with Coffee & Domains (https://www.coffeeanddomains.com).

The goal was to make a domain name registration and management system I'd like to use. That means no upselling and no charging for standard services like whois privacy, url forwarding, and email forwarding.

I also made it easy to set your domain names to not auto-renew and to transfer away your name.

There is also no magical price change the second year or hidden fees that show up at the end of the purchasing process.

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Sorry for asking this under such a nice idea but what happens to those who have domains with a company that goes out of business?

I'm actually a reseller of Key-Systems. If I go out of business you'll still have access to all of your domains and be able to manage them through Key-Systems and RrpProxy.net (http://key-systems.net/). They also run Domain Discount 24 (http://dd24.com/) and are a fairly large registrar.

Thank you for being so clear (and open) about it, makes me want to try it and maybe transfer everything there.

I have a quick repair only. If you see your site with Chrome on Windows 7, there's something about the text that doesn't feel right, it looks too thin to be readable at some sizes. For example, the navigation on the bottom left or (even worse) the text inside the inputs of the login form. It's because of Myriad Pro, not sure if you feel like changing it for some more usual typeface like Arial.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll fire up Parallels and do some tweaking on the font type. I do all my work on a Mac so I typically just test with IE on Windows and test the other browsers on OS X.

How do you deal with increasing registry fee of 7% annually then?

Good question. I did not mean to be misleading. I was referring to having an initial yearly fee of, say, $8.99 but hidden in the fine print a renewal fee of $12.99. I can't control the yearly rate increases but I'll always just have one fee regardless of transfer, renewal, or initial registration. Sorry for the confusion.

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