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PairNIC, operated by Pair Networks. From their web site: "Launched in January 1996 and profitable since its second month of operation...". I have hosted with them for many years and their reliability is unbeatable. If you are a US-based business you can't escape US jurisdiction anyway and probably won't mind paying a couple of dollars more.

I've been using Pairnic for all of my domain names, no complaints, and the prices seem reasonable. I use them to host my website, too. At one point I switched to someone else (phpwebhosting.com, I don't know if they're still around) and complaints from my site's users about slow/unresponsive pages went from zero to daily, at least. I switched back to pair.com and those complaints dropped back to zero.

Gandi.net. French open source geeks. They've been in the registrar business for about as long as you've been on Slashdot. Many consider it an advantage for their registrar to be outside US jurisdiction. Their terms of use and conduct in the face of legal challenges have received thumbs-up from privacy activists and lawyers.

PairNIC, operated by Pair Networks. From their web site: "Launched in January 1996 and profitable since its second month of operation...". I have hosted with them for many years and their reliability is unbeatable. If you are a US-based business you can't escape US jurisdiction anyway and probably won't mind paying a couple of dollars more.

I've had good experiences with both PairNIC and Gandi. I wrote up some information about them, and compared them to a couple other registrars (including Netsol), but the upshot is that after doing a good deal of research I was unable to find any significant complaints about either one of them. They're both a little more expensive than the low-end registrars like Godaddy, but by nearly all accounts the extra cost is well worth it.

My domains are all at Gandi currently.

I've always heard good things about pairNIC and Gandi). I use NameCheap.

I've had my domains with Go Daddy for about 5 years, and I knew the company was crappy, but I didn't know they were this bad. Plus, every time I visit their website I feel like I need to take a shower. Off to a better registrar for me, then. Good riddance.

$15/year is only expensive when you compare them to the bottom-of-the-barrel crowd, who you probably don't want to do business with anyway. Whatever happened to paying more for quality service?

PairNIC is $13 - $19/year and I have no problem with this for the seven domains I have there. Their support is prompt and efficient and they were one of two registrars I found that don't have horror story after horror story written about them. The other one was Gandi (I went with Pair over Gandi because Gandi doesn't do .us domains and I wanted to keep all my domains together).

If you don't like GoDaddy's business practices, check out https://www.pairnic.com/index.html. It's the sister of pair networks who hosts many great sites. ...but the perlmonks already know that.

I don't work for Pair but I know folks who do.

But they were registered using GoDaddy, with Hostway nameservers. For this to really get off the ground, the regular hosting companies have to support it as well. The only registrar that offers spf is (that I'm aware of) PairNIC
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But I think it depends on what you are using your domain for; wildcard spam is minor/rare compared to targetted spam:

My main address (unmunged, in this message's header) gets about 500 spams per day. Before I removed the catch-all I was getting almost twice that. Granted I am not everyone, but a few other people are in the same boat as I am. My web host has its own private news server (i.e. not connected to Usenet), and quite a few people who post there talk about getting thousands of spams sent to nonexistant addresses on their domains every day. Turning off the catch-all is a no-brainer in that case.

Go to something like directnic.com, get your domain for $15/yr and get mail forwarding included (including wildcard)!

I am leery of most of those "quasi-registrars". I have a full fledged registrar, and I get those features, SPF, IPv6, et al. and it is all included in my free account, for the same $15 (or less) per year per domain.

Only a couple others have mentioned pairNic .

I just transferred all of my domains from Netsol over here. They are part of <A href="http://www.pair.com">pair.com</A>, who I also use to host my sites.

The transfer was painless, and I like the management interface.

They aren't the cheapest, but the company has been around a while and the support has always been great.

Try pairnic. They're part of Pair, one of the best web hosts around.
Pairnic is not the cheapest (for 1 year registrations anyway) but they're worth it, especially if you ever need support. They'll be there...

I'm not really sure if it's a good choice but PairNIC doesn't look so bad. What do you think?

Sorry for the slightly off-topic posts...

I have become frustrated with my current domain/dns situation and need something new. What I would really like is domain name registration and DNS hosting for <= $15/year. Something reliable would be nice.

Any suggestions in general or comments on, pairNIC.com, ZoneEdit.com, MyDomain.com, or EveryDNS.net?