Domain name registration

Hello,

I’m about to register 10-20 domain names from various tld’s and would like to get some recommendations on which register to go for.

I’m not looking for hosting from the same provider. I just need to get the domains registered to me and have easy way to manage them (renewal, dns management, etc). I do need web hosting too, so I don’t mind if the register offers good web hosting too, but it’s not required and I certainly don’t want that the domain names are tied to some hosting account (so that I don’t have problems changing hosting provider later on).

For now I have looked at name.com and godaddy.com. Here are their prices:

http://www.name.com/pricing
http://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchbulk.aspx?ci=14580&app_hdr=0

Godaddy seems to have better prices with their bulk offers and they have savings for renewal too, when you have more domains registered from them. They also include free privacy for the domain whois info if there are 6 or more domains registered. So, for now my money is on godaddy, but do you have some better suggestion in mind?

Or do you have reasons why it wouldn’t be good to go for Godaddy?

I mostly use GoDaddy for domain name registration and I’ve been happy with them. They try to get you to buy a zillion useless add-ons at checkout and have the most insanely busy website on the planet, but all I really care about is having full control over my DNS and no downtime. I’ve been told they have sexist teevee ads, but I’ve never seen one so I haven’t been offended by them.

Namecheap is also good.

Godaddy is good, sloooowwww, but their DNS manager is brilliant.

I’ve had good luck with namecheap.com. I’ve never bought in bulk from them, but they don’t pester me too much and their user interface is fairly good.

I can second namecheap.com, not personally, but my father has a number of domains there.

I would stay away from GoDaddy. They used to be a decent company, but since they’ve become just another company that got too big and got too greedy. Plus their site is slow and annoying.

Read the fine print. It may be cheap to register, but usually more expensive to renew....

Yeah.. I went for Godaddy for the first year atleast. Their renewal prices looks good too. Bought 7 domains for now (.org, .com, .net, .info, .me, .biz, .mobi) and it was about 55 USD for the first year. Renewal is a bit higher, but still cheaper than on some other sites that I looked at. Their site seems to be lika a big mess at first, but I guess I get used to it.. seems to be somewhat slow too.

All in all, seems to have pretty good management interface for the domains and quite cheap, so I’d suggest it to others (but wouldn’t get hosting from them as even their own site seems to be sluggish , not a good advertisement).