GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to save elephants

Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by bkrausz on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:51AM (#2390836)

I wouldn't call it a trap: they don't claim renewals are taken at a loss (and I wouldn't expect them to).

They charge $10.16/year to renew a .com (including the ICANN fee). Pretty reasonable to me, plus they let you specify your own nameserver for the domain.

I've been very happy with NameCheap: I was originally on GoDaddy (I was young and stupid), moved to 1&1 (still young, still stupid), and I've been with NameCheap ever since (~4 years).

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by dchest on Thursday March 31, 2011 @05:02AM (#2390853)

plus they let you specify your own nameserver for the domain

It's not "plus", it's requirement for any registrator, isn't it? I've never seen anyone not allowing to specify nameservers.

It's backwards: "plus" is the ability to have free DNS hosting :-)

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by bkrausz on Thursday March 31, 2011 @05:07AM (#2390861)

Oh, I meant NS record delegation (I think, terminology might be wrong, it's been a while since I futzed with low-level DNS stuff), so that you could use ns1.mydomain.com as your nameserver, even if you registered mydomain.com through namecheap.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by qjz on Thursday March 31, 2011 @09:49AM (#2391522)

Can you name a registrar that doesn't permit this? I certainly wouldn't use them.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by elliottcarlson on Thursday March 31, 2011 @10:50AM (#2391796)

They all allow it - just they don't all make it a simple control panel process. Either email support, or do a search and it can be taken care of on all registrars.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by ck2 on Thursday March 31, 2011 @05:29AM (#2390888)

Domain names are pretty much a set-and-forget thing.

You can get into a cheap registrar and pay for 10 years in advance.

I'm paying $7.75 elsewhere and perfectly satisfied.

Oh and by the way, NameCheap is essentially an enom reseller,

remember the registerfly/enom fiasco a few years ago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegisterFly

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by PonyGumbo on Thursday March 31, 2011 @09:00AM (#2391340)

Where are you paying $7.75? I've been looking for an alternative to Godaddy.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by vladd on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:30PM (#2392563)

Search "register domain GoDaddy" on Google and click on their sponsored links. They contain an embedded coupon code bringing down the .com price under 8 USD (the ad is targeted for most countries).

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by PonyGumbo on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:44PM (#2393020)

It may have been unclear in my message, but I'm looking for an alternative to Godaddy for reasons other than pricing.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by kristofferR on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:20PM (#2397617)

I use Internet.bs. They're great and a .com only costs $7.49

They don't upsell anything, unlike the others do, and private registration/transfer is free.

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Re:GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to ... by RyanAmos on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:00PM (#2392095)

They were an enom reseller, but that is no longer true (since around the start of 2008).

Sources: http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&... http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html

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