While we have GoDaddy's attention

Re:While we have GoDaddy's attention by eropple on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @12:49PM (#3400600)

I don't think you're using "cheap registrar" in the same way as I would think most people would. $10 is cheap. It's a lunch. If you are hunting for "the best deal," it is virtually guaranteed that you're eventually going to get burned at some point or another. Find a registrar who's not breaking the bank and who doesn't act like a dick to you, and stick with 'em. Your confusion seems self-inflicted.

(Namecheap actually does give you a free $8.95-level SSL cert with a domain registration.)

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Re:While we have GoDaddy's attention by rglullis on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @01:32PM (#3400748)

  1) Go to namecheap home-page.
  2) Try to find out how much it costs to *renew* a domain  after the first year.
  3) Realize that they are also not the masters of clarity and transparency.

No domain registrar is willing to compete on price (or premium services) alone. Not one of them is willing to put a simple price table on their front-page, and stick to it. There is always some coupon or bundled offer (can I get a discount if I don't want a SSL cert?) or volume discount, or reduction on the new ".yagni" TLD...

After all that, people just do what you say and "stick with someone who doesn't act like a dick to them". But that doesn't mean that the general confusion isn't there. Quite the contrary: it is working so well that you don't even notice it.

What I want is a domain registrar version of http://prgmr.com/xen/

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