That's been my experience as well. I still hate the freaking Maze Of Offers you have to navigate in order to checkout, but after that, no hassles. And their admin tools have gotten pretty slick.

But I try to scope out the availability of the usual suspects before committing to a name. But I don;t recall seeing any Twitter reminders, and I bought a domain just the other day. Maybe I'm immune to the noise on the site.