List of crappiest registrars

[Acro]

These four are same owner, it can be recognized by the pseudo-panel, all have same design
1 DOMAIN SOURCE, LTD. DBA DOMAIN 1 SOURCE, INC www.domain1source.com
WEB BUSINESS, LLC. www.webbusiness.biz
DOMAIN MONKEYS, LLC www.domainmonkeys.com
AIM HIGH!, INC. DBA GET YER NAME www.getyername.com
CRAPPINESS LEVEL: near 10 (they seldom answer email or ticket, they answer only if I write them I send someone to beat them with baseball bat, no kidding)

Unfortunately Snapnames caught a name for me with one of those. Snapnames sent me an automated email providing a username/password that does not work, because those Domain1Source bozos don't have a domain managing panel! Can you believe this crap?

[exponent]

A.) GoDaddy has the worst back-ordering service by far. I've missed out on names registered at GoDaddy, using GoDaddy's back-ordering service. I've also had issues in the past with prime domains failing to renew and suddenly disappearing. No disrespect to Adam, as he's associated with GoDaddy, but I'm a bit miffed that I lost MoonWebs*com

B.) From what I've experienced, Enom has a rather atrocious fraud investigation team. Long story short, I co-managed a portfolio of just over 8,000 domains before an unscrupulous partner plowed xyz into the ground. I filed suit to reclaim the domains, but the powers that be decided I needed to take action for each individual domain. Since I didn't have an easily printable list of each and every domain that was transferred out, expired, or maliciously deleted, myself and two other partners lost the bulk of our portfolio. I managed to recover less than 20 domains.

C.) Moniker and Name.com have two of the worst interfaces on Earth. Name.com is particularly bad in that it tends to time out quite often. Moniker is responsive, but I think the navigation has room for improvement.

[Rockefeller]

I'm currently putting together a site at WorstRegistrars.com, its in early stages right now, but will provide a place to rate/vent about registrars and a place to provide useful information such as important contacts, how to do internal pushes, request auth codes etc.

[stewie]

I'm currently putting together a site at WorstRegistrars.com, its in early stages right now, but will provide a place to rate/vent about registrars and a place to provide useful information such as important contacts, how to do internal pushes, request auth codes etc.

Sounds good ... should be a good place to Rant!!!

[xero]

the ones that send you constant renewal emails for names that you transferred away long ago..

[omosquera]

stay away from Hosting resellerplans at Directi/Resellerclub.

[Tia Wood]

I'm currently putting together a site at WorstRegistrars.com, its in early stages right now, but will provide a place to rate/vent about registrars and a place to provide useful information such as important contacts, how to do internal pushes, request auth codes etc.

Great idea!

[Zoobar]

WorstRegistrars.com

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Great idea!

[angel69]

if the worst registrar had a face it would have Euro DNS written all over it, no question about that, if you don't agree then you just haven't had to deal w/those thieving mo*^&%*ers

1and1.com was actually my choice for absolute worst, until i got a name on ebay regged w/EuroDNS, but..... 1and1.com : there's still hope ! you're now the avis of the worst registrars ( you're #2 so you try harder , get it ? in case this is "too much" for you folks at 1and1 ) a well-deserved close 2nd !

there are smaller ones where people just don't know a domain from their ass but i thought it would be fairer to "pick" on the bigger guys who can take it

[kokopelli]

Snapnames has also list of scum registrars:

These four are same owner, it can be recognized by the pseudo-panel, all have same design
1 DOMAIN SOURCE, LTD. DBA DOMAIN 1 SOURCE, INC www.domain1source.com
WEB BUSINESS, LLC. www.webbusiness.biz
DOMAIN MONKEYS, LLC www.domainmonkeys.com
AIM HIGH!, INC. DBA GET YER NAME www.getyername.com
CRAPPINESS LEVEL: near 10 (they seldom answer email or ticket, they answer only if I write them I send someone to beat them with baseball bat, no kidding)

I can vouch for the "crappiness level" of http://www.webbusiness.biz! I am right now trying to get a domain transferred out from them, and are having to deal with unresponsiveness, playing games, etc.

they answer only if I write them I send someone to beat them with baseball bat, no kidding

Might have to try that ...