Its been 1andhalf year since i started domaining and till now i have had domains at 15+ registrars which are following
bigrock
godaddy
fasthosts
namesilo
name.com
uniregistry
dotster
netfirms
mydomain
exabytes
namecheap
nettigritty
reappoint
lcn
1&1
alpnames
register.it
whois.com
dynadot
directnic
initially when you start you only go for low prices but besides prices, with time gradually you realize for a longer term you want registrar which besides fair pricing provides overall simplified service that consists of user interface, how easy it is to push to different account or transfer out to different registrar, services like DNS, how easily those are accessible, whether provide premium listing at afternic sedo, security or privacy etc
In my experience
Godaddy undoubtedly remains and is absolutely the most popular registrar among end users.
nettigritty bigrock whois.com alpnames all these are of reseller club or PDR overall provide good experience specially i like how whois have removed auto renew option and domain can only be manually renewed.
other resellers like exabytes reappoint provide tidy UI but they compensate it with pricing
for me overall namesilo is the best considering everything and fasthosts second best specially because of their pricing. Uni could have also be in contention but they neither provide premium listing at afternic nor sedo (where my majority of sales come from) so that mostly keeps me away from it.
dynadot and name.com are excellent come close to namesilo. godaddy is not great but fairly good. namecheap and rest are good to ok.
i never had really bad experience at any particular registrar. didnt use epik or enom except for namejet transfer. pheenix namebright hardly used, network solution never got an account.
i am trying to limit my number of registrars upto 3-4 to ease the management of domains.
you all can also share how many registrars you have used? or how many registrars you have your domains currently at?
bigrock
godaddy
fasthosts
namesilo
name.com
uniregistry
dotster
netfirms
mydomain
exabytes
namecheap
nettigritty
reappoint
lcn
1&1
alpnames
register.it
whois.com
dynadot
directnic
initially when you start you only go for low prices but besides prices, with time gradually you realize for a longer term you want registrar which besides fair pricing provides overall simplified service that consists of user interface, how easy it is to push to different account or transfer out to different registrar, services like DNS, how easily those are accessible, whether provide premium listing at afternic sedo, security or privacy etc
In my experience
Godaddy undoubtedly remains and is absolutely the most popular registrar among end users.
nettigritty bigrock whois.com alpnames all these are of reseller club or PDR overall provide good experience specially i like how whois have removed auto renew option and domain can only be manually renewed.
other resellers like exabytes reappoint provide tidy UI but they compensate it with pricing
for me overall namesilo is the best considering everything and fasthosts second best specially because of their pricing. Uni could have also be in contention but they neither provide premium listing at afternic nor sedo (where my majority of sales come from) so that mostly keeps me away from it.
dynadot and name.com are excellent come close to namesilo. godaddy is not great but fairly good. namecheap and rest are good to ok.
i never had really bad experience at any particular registrar. didnt use epik or enom except for namejet transfer. pheenix namebright hardly used, network solution never got an account.
i am trying to limit my number of registrars upto 3-4 to ease the management of domains.
you all can also share how many registrars you have used? or how many registrars you have your domains currently at?