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Who is the best registrar in the business?

  • 1st

    NameSilo

    223 
    votes
    24.4%
  • 2nd

    GoDaddy

    192 
    votes
    21.0%
  • 3rd

    Dynadot

    169 
    votes
    18.5%
  • 4th

    NameCheap

    81 
    votes
    8.9%
  • 5th

    Epik

    54 
    votes
    5.9%
  • 6th

    Uniregistry

    45 
    votes
    4.9%
  • 7th

    Porkbun

    26 
    votes
    2.8%
  • 8th

    Name.com

    21 
    votes
    2.3%
  • 9th

    Google

    17 
    votes
    1.9%
  • 10th (tie)

    NameBright

    14 
    votes
    1.5%
  • 10th (tie)

    Other

    14 
    votes
    1.5%
  • 11th

    NetworkSolutions

    12 
    votes
    1.3%
  • 12th (tie)

    101Domain

    votes
    0.8%
  • 12th (tie)

    1&1

    votes
    0.8%
  • 13th (tie)

    InternetBS

    votes
    0.7%
  • 13th (tie)

    Enom

    votes
    0.7%
  • 14th (tie)

    Fabulous

    votes
    0.5%
  • 14th (tie)

    Hexonet

    votes
    0.5%
  • 15th

    Cloudflare

    votes
    0.4%
  • 16th

    Domain.com

    votes
    0.3%
  • 17th

    Moniker

    votes
    0.2%
  • 18th (tie)

    Dotster

    vote
    0.1%
  • 18th (tie)

    Register.com

    vote
    0.1%
  • 19th (tie)

    DirectNic

    votes
    0.0%
  • 19th (tie)

    Hover

    votes
    0.0%

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It's been over 18 months since the last big poll here. So let's take a new poll on best registrar. GoDaddy won the last two, the last one was closer with @namesilo coming in second, 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5%. The previous big poll saw GoDaddy run away with it 303 votes or 52%.
 
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Those are the urls. We do have offices in China and a couple Chinese teams including Aftermarket representatives and Domain Brokers in Mainland China. We do not have a Chinese Mainland site but that does not prevent us from selling your domains to Chinese customers. We do that regularly and that was my point. They can read the site and communicate with native Chinese speakers when buying your domains. I know, I helped train some of them in the Aftermarket. :)
 
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I know, I helped train some of them in the Aftermarket
Maybe this is why I actually had a number of Afternic sales landed at Chinese registrars or godaddy (but with whois country shown as CN) ;)
 
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We do have a site in Chinese and Chinese buyers. If you want to sell your domains in China you should also integrate the listings with Afternic with the list for sale via GoDaddy domains control panel. That way you will be listed in Chinese Registrars that are part of our network.

I don't use Godaddy.
Is listing with Afternic enough? Do we need to choose a BIN price, or fast transfer?
 
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Dynadot gets my vote. Moved over when they were new and never looked back.
 
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Namesilo. If Dynadot wouldn't lock your marketplace sales into their account credit system, they could be the first choice.
 
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Namesilo. If Dynadot wouldn't lock your marketplace sales into their account credit system, they could be the first choice.

Agreed, that practice is annoying. It disinclines sellers from putting good names up on Dynadots marketplace.
 
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I don't use Godaddy.
Is listing with Afternic enough? Do we need to choose a BIN price, or fast transfer?
Yes Afternic will work because they list your domain on GoDaddy as well as Chinese registrars like HiChina and others. You do need a fast transfer to be listed in the most registrars in the network.
 
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Namesilo. If Dynadot wouldn't lock your marketplace sales into their account credit system, they could be the first choice.


What exactly does this mean? I list a Dynadot domait at Dynadot's marketplace. And then what happens? What can't I do?
 
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What exactly does this mean? I list a Dynadot domait at Dynadot's marketplace. And then what happens? What can't I do?

It means Dynadot won't send you money when you sell a domain. Your money from a Dynadot marketplace sale will go into your account as credit, and you can only use it to renew or register domains through Dynadot. Basically, you can't do anything about that yourself, if you sell in their marketplace.
 
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What exactly does this mean? I list a Dynadot domait at Dynadot's marketplace. And then what happens? What can't I do?

It means Dynadot won't send you money when you sell a domain. Your money from a Dynadot marketplace sale will go into your account as credit, and you can only use it to renew or register domains through Dynadot. Basically, you can't do anything about that yourself, if you sell in their marketplace.

Well you can withdraw funds even to your paypal, but only if your Dynadot account credit balance is at least $500 or more.
 
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Well you can withdraw funds even to your paypal, but only if your Dynadot account credit balance is at least $500 or more.

Good to know. I wish Dynadot made that more prominent when explaining the terms when you list on the market. I listed a few domains shortly after they added their marketplace, and it simply said added to account as credit. I just went to list a domain to see, and now they have more details and it appears payout is an option, but you have to make a request.

"The sale proceeds are credited to the seller's Dynadot account (minus a 5% Marketplace listing fee) after the processing period ends.

NOTE:

The processing period will take 5-20 days.
The Marketplace listing fee is 5% of the listing price. There is no minimum listing fee at this time.
The sale proceeds are credited as Dynadot account credit, but can be paid out on request."
 
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NameCheap Support is supereb. No waiting time like most other registrars. And they will help any minute until the issue is resolved. Also support is avalble 24/7. Most registrars limit that to working hours and only few contact options available 24/7.

If i choose 2nd choise, I will choose Epik. There support is also great and Epik does have some nice features such as Parking Rotation, Performce tab, own marketplace for the domainer and so on.
 
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Regarding Dynadot's payout though (discussed in posts above), you have to pay an additional 5% for that.

So then it's 5% for the Marketplace fee + 5% for the payout:
https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/payout-policy

But if they could make it a flat 5%, they would be much more preferable.

Also, you might not have noticed the payout option earlier, because I think they only added it less than a year ago.
 
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It means Dynadot won't send you money when you sell a domain. Your money from a Dynadot marketplace sale will go into your account as credit, and you can only use it to renew or register domains through Dynadot. Basically, you can't do anything about that yourself, if you sell in their marketplace.

@Dynadot you really think that is a good policy?
 
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I trust only big daddy and Enom. Realized that those I prefered in the past are like fast food registrars with cheap prices. But no one use them with highly valuable domain name. Like example Insurance.com = Godaddy
X.com = Godaddy
 
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1) Namesilo, 2) Dynadot for me :)
 
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I am torn between Dynadot and Namesilo, both have great prices and good support but since I have to choose one, I voted for dynadot because their interface is wow. It makes transaction smooth and easy like ABC
 
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I trust only big daddy and Enom. Realized that those I prefered in the past are like fast food registrars with cheap prices. But no one use them with highly valuable domain name. Like example Insurance.com = Godaddy
X.com = Godaddy
Wait did you just say enom?
 
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I vote for Dynadot,

they have good API that can be used for "dropcatching",
they support a lot of cctlds and ngtlds,
in recent months their backorder system became more competitive for catching .io,.me and other cctlds,
they have very transparent grace deletion scheme,
and they started to support money withdrawal to PayPal.
 
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Dynadot for me! I actually feel like I matter when I work with them.
  1. Great control panel
  2. Aggressive pricing discounts for high volume transactions ( I spend quite a bit )
  3. Their personal touch and genuine care I feel when I work with them
  4. Ability to use fast transfer option when selling at 2 of the biggest marketplaces
 
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We did receive a lot of requests to allow the balance from domain sales to be withdrawn, and introduced a payout policy last year to allow this. There's some more information on the policy here:

https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/payout-policy

That's a VERY restrictive policy. IMHO. How do you expect to compete on the world stage without a fully comprehensive payout for domain sales. Directly. This hardly does any justification to provide us with an incentive to use your platform for domain sales. You should NOT credit our account with receipts, unless we request it. Funds should be passed from the buyer to the seller, in whatever form we wish to use. This policy is the main downfall why your domain market is not growing like it should. You should bring this into the 2nd decade of the 21st Century. Somebody at Dynadot needs to wake up, and smell the roses.
 
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I notice that (as of writing this) the 5 registrars obtaining the most votes all have an integrated domain marketplace. Do you think that is a key factor in why they have so many more votes than some of the other choices that do not? While I am not at all surprised that the top 5 are NameSilo, Dynadot, GoDaddy, Namecheap and Epik, as of now, their domination in the voting somewhat surprises me. Number 6 in voting Uniregistry also of course has a marketplace.
Bob
 
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