Domain registering

[01101010]

Off hand, can anyone point me in a direction of registering a domain name site? Preferably one that has a good rep and/or if any of you have experience with. I am working with a PhD here on her next grant and the University IRB has requested we grab our own web domain name, but when she looked up how she was overloaded with lists of places to purchase. Price is not at issue since it will be in the grant to comp the cost, however given the multitude of choices, any better than others or all basically the same?

[schild]

Just go to GoDaddy and use the coupon code FUN3

[Salamok]

Remember to opt out of all the crap, the entire site is designed to trick you into buying shit besides your domain name registration.  It is almost to the point of a bait and switch scam but you actually can just register a domain name if you are careful.

[Quinton]

I've been happily using joker.com for about ten years now.  Reliable.  Simple.  No bullshit.

[fuser]

Just go to GoDaddy and use the coupon code FUN3

Second,

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/godaddy.com

Has one for $2.99 try 299buycom coupon 

Their domain hosting has worked flawlessly for me for years and their console works pretty good, avoid everything else they offer.

[Ookii]

This link will get you a 6.99 domain:

http://www.godaddy.com/compare/gdcompare_domain.aspx?isc=goaz005o

[Azaroth]

If that $2.99 coupon works, I'm doing a little shopping.

[Righ]

If that $2.99 coupon works, I'm doing a little shopping.

Cheapbutvain.com?

[Jack9]

gandi.net

I prefer my domains to fall under french law than US law.

[schild]

gandi.net

I prefer my domains to fall under french law than US law.

Domains can be jacked easily no matter what country their in and most providers probably couldn't protect you from an American company anyway. Just saying.

[Jack9]

I'm not sure what you mean by jacked or by "protect". If there's a dispute with a godaddy account, 1 complaint (legitimate or not) can take the domain offline rather quickly. It takes more than even a US order to get gandi to suspend the domain. Just sayin.

[schild]

1 complaint (legitimate or not) can take the domain offline rather quickly

Short of the odd situation that's been plastered all over the web, having spent 2 years working at GoDaddy (and having intense disdain for the company I might add), I can assure you that the flavor of internet propaganda you're spreading is of the rare variety. As in, that's bullshit and the number of times that has happened doesn't even tick a .1% mark among all the complaints they get.

[Ingmar]

I don't know of a non-evil registrar.

[Oban]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=16375.0

[TripleDES]

I don't know of a non-evil registrar.

www.gandi.net

[Big Gulp]

Just go to GoDaddy and use the coupon code FUN3

Yeah, they're fine for registration, just don't use them for hosting.  Our shop's site is hosted by GoDaddy, and there isn't a week that goes by that I don't curse their existence.

[Trippy]

You on a shared server, VPS, or dedicated?

f13.net is on a dedicated GoDaddy server and I haven't rebooted the machine in over a year and you guys have seen for yourselves how often the site is inaccessible because of GoDaddy networking issues (basically never). If it's shared or a VPS (depending on the virtualization method used) your reliability is at the whims of the other people sharing your hardware.

[Xuri]

I'm currently using One.com for my domain registrations and site-hosting. Have been using them since November 2003, and have had no problems with stability or uptime and such. Granted, I don't run a high-traffic website, but for my needs (blogging, file storage, e-mail) the service they're providing is more than adequate.

[KallDrexx]

I hate GoDaddy.  My brother registered his domains and hosting there like a tard without consulting me and I cursed him for it.  Couldn't figure out how to do half the shit I needed, my site didnt' work when I put it up there and GoDaddy's "View Logs" interface was 404'ed so I couldn't see what error messages Joomla was spitting out.  I then moved the site back to my Dreamhost account and couldn't get GoDaddy's domains to see Dreamhost's nameservers correctly, nor could I get it to point to my domain without making the url look retarded.

First chance I get I'm transferring the domains away from GoDaddy.  Their user interface is horrible, and half their shit doesn't work right.

[Ookii]

I hate GoDaddy.  My brother registered his domains and hosting there like a tard without consulting me and I cursed him for it.  Couldn't figure out how to do half the shit I needed, my site didnt' work when I put it up there and GoDaddy's "View Logs" interface was 404'ed so I couldn't see what error messages Joomla was spitting out.  I then moved the site back to my Dreamhost account and couldn't get GoDaddy's domains to see Dreamhost's nameservers correctly, nor could I get it to point to my domain without making the url look retarded.

First chance I get I'm transferring the domains away from GoDaddy.  Their user interface is horrible, and half their shit doesn't work right.

Okay, let's cover the obvious first, you don't have any fucking idea what you're doing.  That said, GoDaddy does suck in a lot of ways, but my Dreamhost server's average load is 15+ (on a quad core).

[KallDrexx]

Okay, let's cover the obvious first, you don't have any fucking idea what you're doing.  That said, GoDaddy does suck in a lot of ways, but my Dreamhost server's average load is 15+ (on a quad core).

If by "don't have any fucking idea what I'm doing" you mean I'm used to using both Yahoo and Dreamhost's domain management systems with having zero issues yet I can't get godaddy's system to do what I want, then yes, I don't know what I'm doing.  I've done a lot of domain management on Dreamhost's panel specifically and had zero issues, including domain mirroring that doesn't suck, yet I can't figure out how to do it in GoDaddy's system. 

I have also converted quite a few Joomla sites from one hosted account to another, so I do know what I am doing there.  However, when I moved my site to  godaddy and I get a pure blank screen, and the 4 days I tried to go to their web server log viewer (since you know, GoDaddy apparently doesn't give me shell) and the site gives me 404 errors, there's not much I can do (since you know, it's hard to debug the problem when there is no message on what is breaking) but move it back to my Dreamhost account.

Dreamhost may suck for heavy websites, I don't know as none of my sites I have hosted there are that big as it's mostly used as a development grounds for me right now.  When the time comes for performance I'll see what I can do, but like hell will I go to GoDaddy.

And back to the point of this post, Dreamhost's domain management panel is MUCH more cleaner, more organized, and easier to work with than GoDaddy's, and it seems to provide much more options as well.  Shit I'd even use yahoo's domain management stuff over GoDaddy's, because at least Yahoo's interface doesn't suck.

[schild]

The ONE interface of GoDaddy's that doesn't suck is the domain management one. Yahoo's is probably the worst in the industry and Dreamhost is just the Cheap Seats.

I'm really not sure what kind of point you're trying to make but don't disparage a service because it confused you. GoDaddy's domain management is pretty much top of the class other than one or two things that are missing that you'd probably never notice with casual hosting anyway.

[Ingmar]

Just don't use GoDaddy's spam filter. 

In general otherwise, people seem to be satisfied with them, sleazy ads aside.

[Salamok]

The ONE interface of GoDaddy's that doesn't suck is the domain management one. Yahoo's is probably the worst in the industry and Dreamhost is just the Cheap Seats.

I'm really not sure what kind of point you're trying to make but don't disparage a service because it confused you. GoDaddy's domain management is pretty much top of the class other than one or two things that are missing that you'd probably never notice with casual hosting anyway.

Network Solutions domain management kicked all kinds of ass before godaddy "enlightened" them with the kotaku plus sales design scheme.  It was almost worth the triple price network solutions was charging but once they started with making you opt out of bogus extra services during checkout and renewal it was a rapid trip to the bottom.  I still think network solutions beats go daddy on the management console when it comes to doing things like setting up multiple mx and host records for fail over when you own your own mail server and such.

If you think godaddy has anything special going for it other than price you are kidding yourself.  That said I do think they are worth what they charge.

[fuser]

  Godaddys domain control center has been porked for a day now

(this is the first time I have had an issue in ~4years, no eta yet of a fix only mention is on twitter as of ~24hrs ago)

[Stormwaltz]

Just to say...

I was going to go through GoDaddy to register a domain for my neverware project forum, when I noticed my animeofthestate.org host, Hostway, offers domain registration for $7.95 a year.

Since I've had almost no problems with them in the past seven years, and I already have a huge amount of webspace with them that I barely use, I'll go through them.

No idea if they offer the same pricing to new customers. Try it.

EDIT: Hostway is working through Domainpeople.