https://www.namecheap.com/campaigns/2016/mydd.aspx

I believe the tl;dr is "transfer your domain for $3.98", limit of 50 domains... though they're headlining it as donating some of the proceeds to the EFF.

.com is $10.69/year after that. Savings over godaddy not worth the bother.

true, 2 bucks more than the cheapest registrar, though they're a decent registrar and there's always more deals going about if you don't mind switching around.

I picked this link up from a budget server forum...

After bad experiences with GoDaddy.... not to mention issues with the ownership, and having absolutely awful experiences with Moniker, I'm happy to pay the extra 70 cents above GoDaddy for Namecheap.

1. They've been good
2. They have the best interface I've seen at a registrar. I've used a fair number for client work - they all suck. Namecheap used to just suck a little less. With their recent update, though, it's actually pretty nice.
3. Not nickeled and dimed - email forwarding, cheap SSL certs and so on.

So I've been happy with the switch and I don't have that many domains, so for me it's less than another $100/year compared to shopping around. If I had thousands of domains, that might be a different deal.

Somehow, Godaddy has missed the opportunity to abuse me too much. I might be the only one left.  When domain locking came out, they saved my most valuable domain from being fraudulently transferred, so I do have a little allegiance due to that, I guess.  By comparison to Net Sol back then, GD was great. I've also found having a domain buyer on GD an easy/quick way to handle a sale, many already having an account.

I have 50 or so domains left.  I'd move the marketable ones to a cheaper registrar recommended by thecore.  Maybe I'll just sell them at the roundtable in Vietnam.

>>By comparison to Net Sol back then

Sure. What I call the "Lead Standard" for customer service and value. And yet I still come across people paying $35 to $50/year for awful service. I think there's some sort of sales/marketing/business/life lesson in that.

They're pretty flexible with discounts if you have a few products with them. They're charging me $9.51 for .com's ATM and $0.25 for privacy. Support's also good.

Namecheap / InternetBS / Namesilo is what many of the cool kids seem to use nowadays, they're all reasonably priced. I use an API for all of them though a couple of their UI's are powerful enough to do everything in bulk.

FWIW if anyone hasn't seen it, there's a couple of comparison tools out there, this one's pretty good: https://www.domcomp.com/