[ale] Preferred domain registrars?

[brandon at brandonchecketts.com (Brandon Checketts)]

I'd also like to get away from Godaddy, but you just can't beat their prices. 
You can always find coupon codes on retailmenot.com to get domains for about 
$7.67/year and SSL certs for $12.99/year.

Godaddy gripes:
  - UI is a pain and has too much upselling
  - I don't like their advertising or owner
  - They don't acknowledge when they have problems
  - It seems they tend to turn on auto-renew automatically somehow
  - Support treats me like an idiot, even when I'm right.  I'm sure they deal 
with a ton of idiots, but I've had a couple occasions where their DNS servers 
were down or wrong, and their only response is to wait for 72 hours for things 
to propagate.

I'd love to find a good alternative who had competitive pricing.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 08:54 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> Sadly, I have to say that GoDaddy.com has the best prices in domain
>> registration. I hate the idea that someone can whois my domains and
>> see that I used them. I fear that people will judge my character by
>> the advertising methods that my registrar uses. I didn't succumb to
>> their marketing. I went for the best price. I moved over to them in
>> 2002 before they went racy.
> 
> I've been using them for a little while now.  I rather like their prompt 
> customer service.  I don't mind paying for that---I won't pay less to 
> get crappy customer service, for sure.  Whatever I might save on the 
> monthly invoice with such a company is more than made up for in the 
> amount of time I have to waste on the phone.
> 
> 	--- Mike
>