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Who is the Best Registrar? (take 2)

Posted by Cliff on from the once-more-'round-the-DNS-round-table dept.

cardozo asks: "Since my registrar recently did a bad customer service job with me, and their site wasn't all that easy to use, I'm in the market for a new registrar. Slashdot has responded to this question in the distant past, but the world has changed since Feb 2000!. Price is important, but customer service is too. Features are less important to me, but I can imagine that having email forwarding, etc. would be nice. So who do you think is the best registrar?"

2 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. godaddy.com by pci · · Score: 3, Informative

    Easy to use, a 24x7 support line that actual has a real person on it, and the best part $8.95/yr.

  2. Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality by XDG · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have been using Gandi for several years and been very happy with their service.

    They offer domain registration in .com/.org/.net/.biz/.info/.name/.be for EUR12 a year (about $14 dollars, lately). That includes optional free web redirection, email redirection, DNS hosting, and secondary DNS. Almost all administration is automated on their website and very easy to use. I have zero complaints and nothing but compliments for them, and have been recommending them to friends for low-cost, high-quality domain registration.

    From their site:

    GANDI SARL is a french company created in 1999 by four persons known in the french Internet world (Pierre Beyssac, Laurent Chemla, Valentin Lacambre et David Nahmias).

    Our service focuses primarily on individuals and non profit organisations. Gandi's aim is to provide to individuals domain names easily (for the technical and administratrive part) and for a price as low as possible.

    -XDG