See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
I use their control panel once every couple of months and although it doesn't have the "pretty" element to it, it's quite an easy and intuitive tool to work with and I even dare say it, is the most functional domain management tool I've seen.
At a glance you can see which domain is locked, private, auto-renewed, etc and changing any of this is just a matter of selecting a couple of domains from the list and applying the action you want in a batch.
For example, you want to transfer 5 domains away: 1- go to the domains manager 2- from the list, check each domain you wish to transfer away 3- click on the Transfer Domains Out action 4- simply follow the flow and provide the extra info where required.
You could be done in less than a minute.
And in general, it is usual a good idea to have separate service providers for domain name registering and for hosting.
Their interface is a little clunky but reasonably nice, and they make some stuff, like setting up Google Apps, super-easy.
Unfortunately, their password recovery scheme is to email me my password in plaintext, and I'm really not comfortable having my main domain that controls my email and online presence protected by bad security, so I'm moving off of them very soon, at least for danieljackoway.com