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I made a switch and I am lucky it was “a”, not a few. I switch over to 1and1 for one of my domains. I’ve been with Namecheap for 7 years and over the years and my now defunct hosting business, registered close to 2800 domain names through them. oh, those were good times.

Reading through a lot of print and download magazines (oh I know what you think but no, it’s legal and I use and pay for Zinio), 1&1, with 2 pages splashes of advertisments are eye catching to say the lease.

I gave them a try with one domain that was about to expire anyway on Namecheap.

I’ll tell you. Stick to namecheap if you are with them. Why?

All the followings are based on my geographical location, Singapore with ISP Singnet.

- Nameserver, DNS whatever people are calling it these days gets updated IMMEDIATELY. You change the DNS, refresh the dot.com domain, it points immediately to the new web server.

- Reminder services for expiring domains. This was a life saver and still is.

- Great A-I-O, all in one, GUI web interface for administration of all domains you own. Imagine the nightmare I had when I had to transfer the said 2800 domains to a new web server by editing their DNS to my new web server. Back then, namecheap already has although not as good as the current one, single change interface which you can choose to do to any domains you wish. Time saver!

- $8.88USD, well, not so long ago…as now their price went up slightly but it’s industry wide. It’s now USD$9.29 per domain.

- Reactivation of domain. It just works! Others may be providing it already but Namecheap allows me to activate domain that some ex-customers couldn’t make their mind up about! Expiring soon then expired only then they make up their mind, I had 30 days to entertained these people, expired + 30 days, nothing I can do any more.

and now, a community forums.

So, if you’re with Namecheap already, stick with them. Do post any comments of any other domain registrar you know of and your experience. Was it as good or was it bad?