Well, it's obviously, I want to ask, which one is the best based on your experience... Or, you can suggest better than those two?
I prefer Namecheap over Name every time. Namecheap for their low prices in my opinion provide an exceptional service including support, they even have live support to answer your questions related to domains, hosting or sales. I don't know if the live support is 24/7 but everytime i've used it, it's always online. I find their live support to be friendly and very helpful. Their control panel is well laid out and so easy to use. They also have a forum which the staff actively participate in with customers. They also which i've just noticed, have a notification security feature that you can sign up for which informs you by email of any activity that goes on in your account which will of course include your own activity. Name.com maybe cheaper but their support is lacking. There's no ticketing system only emails which i hear don't get answered promptly. I don't like the interface much, it's not very user friendly. There doesn't seem to be any bulk management (if it's there, i haven't seen it). I purchased some domains and forgot to add the WHOIS protection, i then went back to put it on but to do that, you have to click on every single domain name to then apply it. Unlike namecheap where you can apply WHOIS quite easily in bulk and not having to individually do each one. I also just found out that when you first register your domains they are unlocked and you have to go into each one and lock them individually yourself. My personal opinion Name = 6 / 10 Namecheap = 9 +1/2 / 10 There's only one thing i don't like about Namecheap why i don't rate it 10/10 is that they charge you to transfer in but not to transfer out whereas Name charge you to to transfer out but not to transfer in. I thought the logic would be to have the penalty on a person taking their business somewhere else rather than on someone joining your business.
Namecheap is great, support can be a bit slow but I think I have only ever used it the once. Their control panel/interface is awesome too.
In my opinion I have to say name.com I use all the time. I find their support to be great and I think they have a great interface.
Actually, I never yet buying a domain from name.com... All my domain is bought from namecheap. But, as a customer I am wondering, why name.com is cheaper than namecheap... Yeah, I like the namecheap admin panel... Besides, namecheap homepage look more inviting and promising than name.com... So, anyone have a good experience with name.com? Do they have domain auction feature?
I have been using namecheap.com for a while and saw the low pricing offered by name.com and the name sounded more professional so I shifted some domain names over. However, I find that the name.com support to be lacking and their website seems to be down quite often. I have seen shifted all my domain names out of name.com back to namecheap.com
AFAIK all registrars catering to end users charge a fee to transfer your name to them. I just checked Name.com and it costs $7.99, although total cost/s is currently zero since I haven't put anything in yet. And Name.com charges a fee to transfer out, huh? Then again, any registrar can charge a fee for transferring out, though many currently don't. Between the two, though, I agree NameCheap has arguably better and more modes of support. And that's a big thing for me when I recommend people. Only "complaint" about NameCheap is they don't have an affiliate program. But that's just about it.
Both Name.com and NameCheap.com are good. In my opinions: - I will choose NameCheap.com for new registrations or transfers, as it provides you free WhoisGuard ($0 cheaper than Name.com) and free one-year SSL Comodo certificate ($12 cheaper Name.com) - I will choose Name.com for renewals, as it provides you free Whois Privacy ($3 cheaper than NameCheap.com) I have multiple domains in both of them. NameCheap has a better interface for management.
All of my domains are registered at Namecheap and I don't have any problems with them sofar. I didn't have any experience with Name.com.
The norm is for the receiving registrar to charge a minimum of one year of registration when a name is moved from another registrar to theirs, just as they would charge for a fresh registration. Of course one big difference being that with a transfer, you generally get a year added to whatever time you still have left on your registration. Many registrars and resellers, even within the same reseller network will charge for transfers. (eg. Wild West and its resellers). Namecheap doing so is not unusual. As pointed out by Dave Zan, it's the charge on an outgoing domain which is unusual. Does Name.com really charge for outgoing transfers? .
I ve enjoyed the services by name.com, never talked with customer service coz the panel has all function, never tried namecheap.com, but seems both good, that's great, one more choice for us customers.
Is it true that Name.com charges for outgoing transfers? This would be the first registrar that I know of which does. IF it is true, then in my book, that is a major demerit. I hope someone from Name.com can address this, since the allegation has been made (in Post#3 above). I would certainly be interested in a definitive answer from them as to whether or not Name.com charges for outgoing transfers (to other registrars). I have an ever-growing portfolio there, but I may reconsider my decision to have names there IF there are fees or any red tape when it comes to transfers. .
i havent tried transferring any of the domains out but this is surely an issue that needs to be addressed, due to me being new to domaining and due to name's low pricing, i regged my first names with them, i havent had any problems so far.