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Comment by cskau | Hacker News Reader

I don't particularly recognise any of the registrars. Does anyone have any experience they'd like to share, to help us choose?

  101Domain, Inc.
  Ascio Technologies
  DOMAINREGISTRY.DE
  EBrandServices
  eNom
  EuroDNS
  Interlink Co., Ltd.
  Key-Systems
  Mailcub SAS
  MarkMonitor
  Name.com
  Openprovider
  Super Registry Inc.

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I use 101Domain, especially for non-.com domains (.io, .ly, etc). It has worked well for me, but I haven't had to contact customer service for anything more serious than letting a domain lapse accidentally, which I got back with no hassle.

Markmonitor is very popular with enterprise folks for domain registry/management.

They are the type that charges $10,000 per year, but will make a bunch of phone calls and a background check before doing a transfer or a nameserver change.

Not sure they are relevant for the $10/year crowd.

I use name.com for my half-dozen personal domains, and am yet to have any issues with them.

eNom I've only ever encountered while working for a web hosting company, and remember nothing but pain.

eNom is pretty well known

And IME, best avoided.

name.com is mentioned on hn a lot, not a personal user of it.

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