Where do you register your "Important" domains

[MMiz]

Hi,

Over the years Ive grown fond of the cheaper prices and better services found at eNom, RegisterFly, and other registrars besides Network Solutions. Ive noticed that almost all professional, large sites used Network Solutions. Why? Many are run by techy people, surely they have also grown to hate Network Solutions, but continue to register domains there. Am I missing something? I had $85 a year for my first name at Register.com, but wouldnt go back after learning I can get the same services from an enom reseller for sub $10. Is it a bad thing to register my domains at RegisterFly and eNom?

Once again I feel like Im missing something here. Fill me in.

Thanks.

-Matt

[markblair]

Well, many corporate types (those that aren't so technical) are the ones making the decision on who to buy from. And even though economically it is justified to go elsewhere, I can easily see them staying with the one they started out with. But don't worry, Network Solutions is losing domains to smaller, less-known registrars daily. Maybe not enough to make a huge impact but just like Microsoft now competes with Linux, Netsol must compete with all the other registrars.

I, myself, register domains with two registrars. Dotster and Namecheap. I've started transferring domains to Namecheap as the expiration date nears since their service is excellent in my opinion. I still like Dotster though and I don't mind using them either.

[101sales]

Enom, and GoDaddy are my favorites

[JeremyV]

I register them through myself :D If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust. But.. I sell through enom, so that is who I use technically.

[allan]

I use enom for everything at this point.

[MMiz]

Originally posted by JeremyV:

I register them through myself :D If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust. But.. I sell through enom, so that is who I use technically.

See, I think ya missed the spirit of the question. Many many years ago, "back when I was a kid", you had to register a name with Network Solutions for two years, costing $70. Well when I saw Register.com offering domains for $35 after the ICANN agreement had changed, I thought I had an amazing offer. And can you imagine for only $50 a year they threw in URL forwarding.

So of course now with everyone and their grandmother having eNom reseller account you can register with yourself, but Im wondering if you think it makes you look any less professional, or if there is a downside.

-Matt

[JeremyV]

I don't think it comes down to looking less professional or not really, the biggest point is the service you get with who you sign up with. I've registered with some companies where it was incredibly hard to make changes... others, domain transfers were all but impossible... etc.

I think now, with so many options out there, there is no real issue about who you register with. Granted, there are some shady companies out there still, but for the most part, I don't think anyone really looks at where the domain was registered, nor do most people care at this point.

[net-trend]

I use Enom primarily. I have a number of domains that was bought via Namecheap, while their service is excellent, a Whois query on my domain makes me look cheap. I guess that's the only downside.

[Chicken]

Originally posted by allan:

I use enom for everything at this point.
^^^ What he said.

[nameslave]

Originally posted by allan:

I use enom for everything at this point. Originally posted by Chicken:

^^^ What he said.

No doubt eNom is most popular among resellers and/or web hosts/designers. Personally, I like OpenSRS/Tucows' infrastructure and think it's worth even their higher prices (unless you are registering thousands of names per year). But for now, most of my names are still with GoDaddy, partly because of their retail pricing with no commitment and partly because I have some good contact there. :D

Originally posted by MMiz:

See, I think ya missed the spirit of the question. Many many years ago, "back when I was a kid", you had to register a name with Network Solutions for two years, costing $70. Well when I saw Register.com offering domains for $35 after the ICANN agreement had changed, I thought I had an amazing offer.
Same here, except that I started off with $100 per two years. ;)

Originally posted by MMiz:

Ive noticed that almost all professional, large sites used Network Solutions. Why? Many are run by techy people, surely they have also grown to hate Network Solutions, but continue to register domains there. Am I missing something?
I guess I have mentioned it somewhere: $35 is NOTHING to corporates. That's also why so many companies are still using IBM brand hardware. As a technical manager or director, you can't be blamed even when things go wrong if you'r using IBM or Network Solutions. It's that simple.

[zoltan]

I use enom and .... enom... :)

[DarktidesNET]

eNom. I did use GoDaddy until I recieved my $8.95 reseller a long time ago from zoltan. Since then I have been moving all domains to eNom once they expire and all new domains registered there.

I just like how their site is put together, godaddy is slow and ugly.

[nameslave]

Originally posted by nameslave:

But for now, most of my names are still with GoDaddy, partly because of their retail pricing with no commitment and partly because I have some good contact there. :D
OMG! Just learnt that my "good contact" there has left. And GoDaddy is messing up their databases as well as my accounts with their "faultful" login merging process. Now time has come for me to take my OpenSRS test environment challenge seriously and activate my account (signed up this time LAST YEAR) at least with the Quick Start mode.

And ... I don't know why, I just don't like eNom: from their color scheme to web interface.

[interactive]

Well used to use DirectNic for all of my domains. But now I'm migrating over to Godaddy. 1) They're cheap 2) Their support IMHO is awesome 3) If I ever have any problems with them, I take a 3 hour drive and beat down their door.

[zoltan]

Godaddy seems to have some problems lately. Read more about this on WHT, there are a few topics about this.

[nameslave]

Originally posted by zoltan:

... Read more about this on WHT ...
I'll make sure you guys will have the most up-to-the-minute first-hand report from one of the GoDaddy victims ... a.k.a. yours truly. ;)

[interactive]

Just went over to the other forum and read up on the Godaddy issue, freaked out and checked my account and thankfully all was well :D. Any problems Nameslave?

[nameslave]

Originally posted by interactive:

Any problems Nameslave?
In order not to hijack this thread, I started another one here (http://www.hosthideout.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1910) dedicated specifically to GoDaddy's login merging fiasco.