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For 5 years or more I have used http://domaindiscover.com/ and get $8.00 domains. Great service, good interface, lots of control which I viewed as key since I also manage many of the sites the domains are for.

Since my only websites are personal, I appreciate that Nearlyfreespeech.net will shut down public access to my website if it is slashdotted or otherwise DoSed, rather than charging me extra for bandwidth, like most other hosting providers, and will immediately restore access once I have put more money in the "bank".
I also like that there is no monthly fee, so I pay only for what I use.
(I put in $40 about a year ago or so, and still have over $30 left.)

However, I think that it is a bad idea to have one's web site host and one's domain registrar be the same entity, so I have my domains registered at domaindiscover.com ($9.95/yr for .org).
DomainDiscover also allows subdomains (which I haven't used yet, but plan to in the near future), and allows more-or-less direct access to the DB, so one can add, say, AAAA records (for IPv6) and so forth.
It also offers free email forwarding.
Finally, nothing on the site (of which I know) requires JavaScript (which I have disabled for security reasons), another big plus.
I have no complaints so far.

I have a number of domains registered with http://domaindiscover.com/ (also known as http://buydomains.com/). They have an excellent control panel, good prices, domain forwarding, URL forwarding, temp pages, parking, frame forwarding, accessible MX records, and last year they introduced the ability to encrpyt your registration email address in the whois database - this single act alone cut my spam by about 70%, and I'm very grateful to them. I have even had reason to speak with the company on one occasion, and dealt with a friendly, knowledgeable and helpful guy within seconds, who answered all my queries.

Arggggh! We left the Stone Age quite some time ago. Email as a domain management interface is not the way to attract customers. There's certainly something to like about web-based administration, like that available at my favorite registrar. With such an interface, I can make changes instantly. I can check the status of all my domains instantly. With email, I would would have to wait on a customer service monkey to go do my requests for me, which would probably get botched the first three times around, anyway. And if I sent an email saying "What's the status of my domains?", I would surely not receive a response.

Once someone gets used to web-based domain administration, they'll never go back to email. That means they won't be your customers either.

Botched launch, bad pricing, complicated product, inane business plan... you guys are fixing to party like it's 1999.

Andreas Pour's response just says that he's not going to speak to DEP because he's not fond of the things that DEP has written.

His response to the Kompany's Shawn Gordon dismisses everything as, "a non-issue and just part of some mud-slinging campaign."

"ad hominem" simply means attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument, itself. IMO this is what Andreas is doing, which is a shame because the argument itself needs answering, namely:

The KDE League's web site was down, it hadn't filed its Deleware paperwork as an organization, and it hasn't made any press releases since its launch in 2000. If the KDE League is still in business, what is it doing other than collecting quarterly $500 or $2,500 checks from its ten members?

There's no doubt that Andreas is the person who should answer this question: he's the chairman of the KDE League, he's listed in the KDE Promotion FAQ as the KDE League's point of contact, and, for crying out loud, a reverse lookup on the phone number in kdeleague.org's whois address gives Andreas' phone number in an apartment complex.

Which brings my two questions:

If the KDE League is really just Andreas, is he just pocketing these members' checks, or is it being fed back to KDE Developers?

If there really are other members, why on Earth are they letting him destroy the League's credibility this way?

The only reason I can think of for the KDE League to not answer is if it's done nothing since its inception.

The only reason I can think of for other League members to stay quiet is that either there aren't any, or that they know the jig is up and would rather let Andreas take the heat.

Well, back before domainnamebuyersguide was bought out, I used it to pick Domain Discover

Their prices have gone up a little since I originally registered arnor.net and my other site, but their domain registration agreement is still readable, clearly states that you own the domain, and they can only take it away according to ICANN policies or non-payment. The web site makes it easy to modify the configuration for your domains. The free features like email and web site forwarding are really useful. If I register more domains, I'll keep going there.

And I should also mention Hosting-Network, Inc where I've got my site. I'm on the $60/year plan, they don't mess with your site, server is BSD/Apache with PHP,CGI and Perl, you get email addresses, lots of webspace, and your own IP address. It rocks.

At prices like this, everyone should have their own domain, website, and set of email addresses...

I highly recommend checking out the DomainNameBuyersGuide to see how various registrars rank among various dimensions (legal, pricing, etc). This is how I found my excellent registrar, DomainDiscover, which has proved to be great.

For the record, I too, am a huge fane of EasyDNS; they provide 4 secondary DNS sites and 2 backup MX for $15 yearly.

Also, Domain Discover makes it incredibly easy to transfer your domain to them. They have a SSL web based interface for making changes.

Note: I don't work for them, but I do have ~15 personal domains registered through them so.. Slightly more expensive them some of the other registrars out there, but I think its worth it to know that my registrar won't steal my domain name if it suits their interests...

... to Domain Discover
They're a little cheaper, and have a great web-based signup form. It was really simple to do the transfer.


Two negatives make a positive, but two positives don't make a negative.

Find the registrar you want to use, contact them and ask them to transfer your current domains at NSI to them, your new registrar.

They want your business and most are happy to do it. I just did this myself a few weeks ago and switched from NSI to DomainDiscover.com. All in all, it was a pleasant, painless experience. DomainDiscover doesn't charge a transfer fee, but has you instead sign up for an additional year through them for $30 USD. They honor the rest of the time you had on NSI's contract.