Originally posted by: Mike7
I used GoDaddy.com for about a year. No complaints with them. Good operation, good price.
I finally switched to NameCheap.com. Costs a few cents per year more, but includes free unlimited email forwarding with a catch-all option. (For example, if my primary email account is
903892373987@comcast.net, and I register mike7domain.com at NameCheap.com, I can choose to have any email sent to <anything>@mike7domain.com automagically forwarded to
903892373987@comcast.net. Trust me, it's handy. And in essence, it gives me an unlimited number of email accounts.)
When I used GoDaddy.com, I was able to accomplish pretty much the same thing by using ZoneEdit.com's free services. ZoneEdit's great, but I'd just as soon rely on my registrar, as rely on my registrar + ZoneEdit.com. Plus, NameCheap.com has a few other features (for example, hosting of a very basic website is included) which GoDaddy.com either lacked or for which it charged extra. Nothing major, but there you have it.
A friend of mine uses Register.com. Much more expensive than the alternatives, but when asked why he doesn't switch, he just shrugs his shoulders and says, "I don't know." He started with them, and like all too many people, he'd rather pay 2-3x the price of some other registrar, than go to the "bother" of changing. ("Bother" amounts to about 2 minutes online, then waiting 36 hours for the changes to be propagated.) Proof that the business philosophy of "Sign 'em up first, and they're yours forever," has some truth to it.