[Hidden-tech] Domain registrars?

[Jordan Lee Wagner]

My business, Trupod Internet Services (www.Trupod.com), provides domain 
registration services (in addition to hosting and development) with 
competitive prices and excellent service.  (Hey, you know where to find 
me.)  Free DNS is included (email aliases, domain forwarding, etc.). 

I own about 1,500 domains.  If  Trupod were not a registrar, I'd still 
not want to do business with GoDaddy nor DomainSite.  GoDaddy's vigorous 
cross-selling is as aggravating to me as spam.  And DomainSite makes 
mistakes, corrupting my whois records all the time.  Use OnlineNIC only 
if you must have the absolute lowest prices, and you don't mind awkward 
controls and lousy service based in China.  (As a domain broker, I have 
accounts at several dozen registrars; mostly because .ws domains cannot 
be moved.)

I prefer Enom or Fabulous; I like their included functions and high 
service levels.  Also, in my personal experience, they are the only 
registrars I've ever had that have never disappointed me by failing to 
keep a promise or making an error. 

Trupod is, in fact, a top-tier Enom reseller.  I pass along our top-tier 
pricing, with only razor-thin margins, because my two primary interests 
in offering domain registration are: so I can offer a complete solution 
to my website clients, and have better control over my own 1,500 domains. 

If you've got 500 domains to move, I can help you move them in bulk; but 
I wouldn't have room to lower pricing, unless the domains were packaged 
with hosting or development work. 

Jordan Lee Wagner
support at trupod.com
617-953-6787
www.Trupod.com









>>
>> The only reason to use an outfit like GoDaddy is if you can't afford 
>> to pay more than their giveaway pricing (or like to support 
>> businesses that were launched on the back of sleazy sexist Super Bowl 
>> advertising). Needless to say, we don't use them. Our primary 
>> registrar up until now has been directNIC 
>> <http://www.directnic.com/>. We have just shy of 500 domain names 
>> registered through directNIC; however, I am in the process of 
>> migrating our accounts elsewhere. I have been very happy with their 
>> services, including free redirects, free e-mail aliases, a 
>> user-friendly interface, bulk discounts, and a generous grace period 
>> should you miss a renewal date. What I don't like is that they have 
>> recently moved their corporate headquarters from New Orleans (where, 
>> from their upper floor offices and running on generators, they didn't 
>> miss a beat during Katrina) to Grand Cayman. I don't respect what I 
>> see as corporate tax avoidance, when businesses like yours and mine 
>> are paying our dues to both the IRS and the Commonwealth of 
>> Massachusetts. Our "secondary" registrar up until now has been 
>> Moniker. Moniker <http://www.moniker.com/> is a little less expensive 
>> than directNIC, but price has never been our concern. Moniker is 
>> headquartered in Florida.
>>  
>>
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