The lower priced ones usually require you to purchase something else like hosting or some other related service. If you don't care about being tied to the same company where you registered your domain name from, and where you host your site, then go with the lower priced offers. If you want to have access to all of your domains through one company, then you may want to stick with your current registrar.
Hmm, I have had great luck with Ipower and I needed one question about nameservers answered and I called and they helped me through it. It was my lack of knowledge, not a problem that was their doing. I also do not host with them, I have a different host and Ipower walked me through adding a new domain to my host. I am not telling anyone to go with them, I am just telling my experience with them.
Ok I change everything I said in my previous posts, I could not figure out why no one liked Ipower. Now I know, I looked at the rules for selling your domain. It less painful to cut off your right arm. I will be tranfering all my domains to godaddy as soon as my 60 day jail sentence is up at Ipower. I love this forum!!
He is referring to the jail sentence of his domain i also assume that it is the initial 60 day period of a domain in which you cannot transfer to any other registrar.
Oops sorry about that! Seolion is right, I did mean the 60 days before I can transfer the domain I just think it's stupid the process Ipower makes you go through to handle your own domain.
I've used 1 and 1 in the UK but I don't like their practice of retaining credit card details. I use Telivo. I agree that features are important. I found it easy to transfer domains and transfer them back and the forwarding is easy. It's not always permitted to mask forwarding. 1 and 1 do say that the renewal price is fixed forever!
I think Yahoo gives away the cheapest domains only 2.99 year but very painful to transfer to another register if you sell them, I use godaddy i think they are pretty cheap
Don't go with globat. We had 2 domain bought at 3.45$ with a special offer and when they were expiring they sent us 1000 mail a day to renew them but their interface was not allowing us to logon and renew them ... mail and chat support had no use ... both domains got stolen Onlinenic (www.onlinenic.com) is quite cheap and they have a good offer at $3.69 for .org. They also have developer's API for integration. The big issue with onlinenic is thei user panel, one of the most bugged software I've ever seen.
Be VERY cautious if you deal with ipower. I reg'd about 40 domains with them and then was wondering why I still could not manage about 25 of them 3 days later. Well, it turns out that someone (the same person) mysteriously reg'd all of the best (25) domains I "reg'd". I verified this with whois queries. I called them up and after verifying what I already knew, had no answer(s) for me as to how someone else could register all of the domains I had already bought and paid for through their website. Needless to say; they ended up offering to give me the domains for free in other tld's like .net, .org. I didn't do it - too pissed off at the time. All of those domains had decent OVT w/ext counts - coincidence? I don't think so - I will NEVER do business with them again.