The Worst Registrar of 2006 Award.

[Rockefeller]

Dynadot is one of the best, and the only registrar that i use. Fast, friendly customer support and an easy interface makes them one of the top registrars..not to mention the 5 day period where you can delete a domain for credit.

 

[loscocco]

1and1 SUCKS!!!!!

 

[PRED]

Dynadot is one of the best, and the only registrar that i use. Fast, friendly customer support and an easy interface makes them one of the top registrars..not to mention the 5 day period where you can delete a domain for credit.

LOL
Don't worry, i wasn't nominating them!
Pred

 

[David G]

The 2 worst by far:

1. Safenames.net and .com aka IDP365.net (they successfully and blatantly extorted monies from me over the phone into agreeing to early renew all my non-expired names for 2-yrs each at a high cost before they would agree to unlock them so they could be transferred away). Everything else about them sucks too including the very poor control panel and lack of capabilities. They actually called me all the way from England to do the extortion of money after I emailed them several times about them making it impossible to transfer away. I imagine they did not use email as there would be no record of the extortion attempt if done by telephone. The U.K. registrars are known by domainers to be the worst in the world, with Safenames the poorest and Easyspace.com also being terrible.

2. 1and1.com (can't get auth codes.....no way to unlock names which they auto-lock themselves....must pay to renew each year even if names are already prepaid more than 1 yr.....no way to renew yourself instead they only auto renew upon expiration or even after they expire.....transfer away process extremely complex.....No Whois on their website and they tell you to use someone else's Whois when you ask about it).

 

[VisualDigits]

regfly no doubt

 

[Rockefeller]

tally on post 1 updated. looks like regfly is winning. Good!

 

[dolansco]

regfly..... absolute wank

BUT ... the other day i had to renew a name there .. $8.99 by paypal... but they put too much money in my account ????
i got 8 renewals in the end for my 9 bucks ... makes a change , they usually screw me over .... payback i suppose

 

[Gerry]

GoDaddy...Pre Reg'd 256 .eu domains along with an associate in the Uk.. GoDaddy's domain search engine said they were available.

Found the .eu database about 3 weeks before sunrise phase ended. Nearly 200 (176 seems to ring a bell with this issue) were already awarded, some as early as December 2005.

Called GoDaddy to let them know what I had found. They told me I was crazy because such a thing did not exist. Talked to 4 different people about this all the way up the food chain.

Finally someone actually got the bright idea and went to the site that I had been telling them about. My, what such silence. It was almost deafening.

I asked them what in the hell was their search tied into because it certainly was not tied in to any .eu database. I was told it searched their own database...as if they were the only ones in the whole wide world registering friggin .eu domain names!

End result? Only 6 domains pre-reg'd went through. Took months and months and months for them to refund reg fees. Numerous phone calls wasting time and money not to mention have money tied up in the domain names.

And then that pompous ass Bob Parsons cried foul and talked about all the front companies set up in the US to perpetrate what ammounted to cyber fraud and reg'd like 350,000 domains.

I emailed Bob during one of his chats. Needless to say, my email was never addressed by him the whole time he was blasting how this was handled by the EU regulating body.

GoDaddy dropped the ball bigtime on this .eu thing and they had no clue what the hell was going on with the .eu database. But Bob put the blame purely on everyone else except his own inept system and clueless staff.

What was the question again? Oh yeah...I vote for GD.

 

[Irish31]

Not to put down anyones bad experiences, but another vote for 1and1 here.



J

 

[hercules]

Godaddy!!!

 

[ColdGin]

I have here the worst...

NAMESECURE.COM

YES...I sale here a domain and now its 2 months AND THEY STILL DIDNT TRANSFER THE DOMAIN...

second time this is happening to me with them....

 

[Rockefeller]

Tallies

godaddy 3
safenames 1
regfly 7
1and1 4
123-reg 2
aplus.net 1
netsol 2
namesecure 1
register.com 1
domainpeople.com 1
domainsite.com 1
enom 1
uk2.net 1

Looks like Regfly is in the lead with 6, 1and1 is in a close 2nd with 4 votes and Godaddy is in 3rd with 3. Keep them coming guys!

 

[jasdon11]

Hey Rock, 123-reg have got 2 votes

 

[paulc]

Registerfly without fail are the worst

 

[Rockefeller]

Tally updated!

 

[PRED]

For the winning party (worst registstrar), i feel they deserve a prize.
I may point my domain www.wanker.info at them!
what do you think? :lol:
look what the owners of www.wanker.org have done, see where it points!
LOL F*CKING HILARIOUS!

Pred
(nb: sorry mods for including a rude word or two, but it is christmas )

 

[jdomains]

register.secureservice.net (dumb a$$ interface)
netsol.com (damn ridiculous prices and similarly dumb as$ interface, especially when i want to make a simple whois change)

 

[B.King]

Registerfly, Because they still have names listed in my account that I transferred away from them a few years ago!!

 

[paulbakerboo]

Regfly! Hate Them With All My Heart!

 

[Focus]

Worst--->>> Registerfly sucks monkey balls...nightmare..I won't even get into it..I have ZERO domains there now

....since you asked and imo the best is enom..no BS and no flashy advertising like GD, which makes them come in at 2nd best..