I have about 75 domains registered at GoDaddy. i like the interface
and management tools.
On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Dawn Endico wrote:
I'm glad you asked this question. I'm shopping around for a domain registrar too.
Does anyone have any experience with Yahoo? I see they're advertizing $2.99/year for domain registrations. That's such a good price there must be a catch.
Do any of you bother with Private Domain Registration? Or do you use a P.O. Box, or is it even worrying about.
I use GoDaddy for everything and have been very happy with them -- especially when it comes to customer service / control panel interfaces / and the ability to do what I want and need to.
I used Yahoo in the past to register my domain (when it was $35/year and they never dropped the prices for existing customers -- they keep everyone locked in at the original sign-up price), and was frustrated with their lack of support as learned more about what I can and wanted to do with my domains. They web interface was okay, but for more complicated things I had to call them... and that was a PAIN.
GoDaddy was much easier to get on the phone, and I usually don't need to since I can do a lot (like lock and unlock the domain, order a transfer, etc) from their control panels.
I choose them for hosting since they had the best deal at the time, and I rented a virtual server, not just hosting space, so I can do anything I want controlling the server myself. It's been really great. Prices have fallen a lot, however, in the last 6 months, and I don't think they are the best deal anymore, so I might move when the server comes up for renewal in April. It's all so much work to keep up with the changes! It would just be great though if my costs dropped by 80% or something crazy like that...
And yes, I've private registered all my domains (and all my clients domains) -- which also may be more expensive than a P.O. Box... but less hassle, and it protects my email address as well. I definitely wanted my personal addresses off the internet, since it's spammers who are the most savvy and up to the least good.
jen
