domain registration

[Stewie]

I work for a company that does web hosting and often get asked about domain registration.
I usually recommend godaddy as i find their service fairly good and they give the cust a lot of control over their domain and email.

I have heard good things about registerfly but after reading up on them I am not so sure I would want to recommend them.

Does anyone here have any good experiences with this registrar or should I avoid them? Why?
or do you have someone else that you think is good?

Thanks in advance.

[schild]

Is this a joke?

I work for godaddy.

Registerfly went out of business.

Godaddy controls their entire client base now.

From Registerfly's web page:

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS.
THE INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS - THE NON FOR PROFIT ENTITY THAT ADMINISTERS THE INTERNET'S DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM, HAS ISSUED A NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF THIS COMPANY'S ACCREDITATION TO SERVE AS AN INTERNET DOMAIN NAME REGISTRAR.
PLEASE SEE WWW.ICANN.ORG FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

[WayAbvPar]

Can you recommend any websites about MMOGs and gaming in general that have active forums?

[schild]

ign.com.

If you want integrity, I suggest gamespot.com.

Or Kotaku.com.

Those are great too.

[Stewie]

No Joke, I wasn't aware that you work for GD.

The notice on their site was one of the reasons that I was skeptical about them as a good registrar.

As far as I understands they have just lost their ICANN accreditation. They are still in business and are just another reseller.
I seen them mentioned a few times on another forum (favorably) and had never heard of them so I thought I would look into them.

So being a GD employee I guess it might be hard to get a unbiased opinion of them right? :p

Can you recommend any websites about MMOGs and gaming in general that have active forums?

I never frequent those kind of sites, I find the people that usually hang out their are usually assholes especially the lurkers... err, Damn! 

[schild]

You should tell the people at the other forum to not be a bucket of retards.

Seriously, you might as well use godaddy. I used them before I worked here and I'll use them afterwards.

It's really not a bias thing, I used to be with directnic. But once you hit a certain threshold, you want your names cheap and the service to be at least halfway reliable.

[Stewie]

good enough, thanks.
I always recommend GD anyways, just thought this might be another viable option.

I have had a few people with their panties in a bunch complain about GD's ad campaigns after I recommended them.


Hey and seeing as you work there, why the hell don't they do .ca's?

[schild]

People who complain about ad campaigns are sissy fucking ninnies. Tell them to get a helmet.

Canada actually subsidizes Canadian registries so much that we could not compete with them in .ca registration. Therefore, registries outside of Canada that want to offer .ca registration pay much more to the registry than ones inside Canada.

Basically, blame them.

Isolationist punks.

[Trippy]

I use eNom but I have a reseller account that I just use for my own domains.

[JWIV]

I've used Godaddy for years and never had a problem with them.  Beats the hell out of the old days when Network Solutions was the only game in town.

[naum]

Can you recommend any websites about MMOGs and gaming in general that have active forums?

/roofles

Hey, support a local Arizona business (GoDaddy)!

The organization I work for has like 50+ domains registered with GD and I myself have a half-dozen or more…

When I first came aboard this job site, they had recently switched as their previous registrar was a French company that twiddled with some DNS settings one night, which lead to a pack of irate workers demanding their email be no longer cutoff ASAP… …the site administrative tools were in French, and it was a mess until somebody on the phone was located to help…

[Phildo]

I used GoDaddy as well for all my domain and hosting junk.

Used to work for them too, and the parting of the ways has not soured my opinion of them as a registrar.

[Tale]

My personal domain is registered through godaddy - no complaints. It's cheap and it works. I enjoy paying next to nothing for a domain after being screwed by Network Solutions in the past when there was no choice. There are vast amounts of obscene rip-offs for domain name registration through ISPs and historically well-known services like Network Solutions and Melbourne IT. I try to steer people away from those, but I think lots of people still use them because they think it's somehow safer - it's not.

The only thing about godaddy is the amount of extra services they try to sell you. All you want is to register your domain. You do not want yourdomain dot somethingelse as well. You do not want fusion of electric motors insurance for your domain name. Concentrate hard on skipping everything until you have paid only for your domain name and nothing else.