.tv Best .TV registrar?

[spline]

Which are the best places for registering a .tv name?

 

[GoneWalkabout]

Welcome to .TV land...

The 'best' is quite subjective and dependent on your particular requirements. However, in general, most would agree that purely for registration purposes to get a good first year out of a name then Namecheap at $17.99 is very good and has a good interface.

If your requirement is just price based then you should check out the following thread...

http://www.namepros.com/581136-tv-registration-renewal-transfer-pricing-promo-4.html

All the best

 

[Robin]

I suggest you name.com. They are good and cheap.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

I suggest you name.com. They are good and cheap.

The prices for Name.tv are as follows...

registration: $22.95
renewal: $35.00
transfer: $32.95

When compared to $17.99 at Namecheap that's a difference of $5 per name on registrations alone!

 

[myne]

IMHO, namecheap has a best price for .TV.

 

[spline]

Ok, thanks!

 

[gr8trfoo]

name at namecheap or name.com will probably fetch less than if they were at gd or enom. i always discount what i'll pay i because of the hassle of transfering.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

name at namecheap or name.com will probably fetch less than if they were at gd or enom. i always discount what i'll pay i because of the hassle of transfering.

REALLY Confused!

Finster - as one of the few members here I actually read and take proper notice of I am a little shocked at this statement.

Many people here actually MOVED names .TV away from GoDaddy, in part, because they similarly listened to your views on GoDaddy in an earlier thread

http://www.namepros.com/dot-tv/561085-current-gd-renewal-code-15-discount.html

It is hard to ignore when someone comes onto a thread and states...

i hear a lot of rumors that gd is going bankrupt.

and

I here they are about to go under! I'm moving all my names out ASAP!

Could you clarify? Are GoDaddy not going bust now? Are you being serious about attempting to get lower prices so you can move them to GD?

 

[gr8trfoo]

Could you clarify? Are GoDaddy not going bust now? Are you being serious about attempting to get lower prices so you can move them to GD?

eNom ranks highest in my book. Not the cheapest registrars but all in all the best. Head and shoulders above the rest. I belive that if Paul Stahura had focused more on the retail side and not so much on developing the reseller side eNom would be in the #1 spot right now. But in this game #2 isnt bad.

I dont move anything to GD, only out. And I dont recomend that any reg new names there, but I have to be honest in saying that names regd there do have a bit higher value than some random, seldom heard of, registrar.

I was hearing a lot of negative financial info about GD back then, not so much right now but then again I havnt been paying too close attention (since I'm actually liquidating large chunks of portfolio and planning on retiring). For all I know they could be knocking on deaths door, ready to fold any second. Just how long can they sustain 60 million loss leaders in hopes of making it up on hosting?

Maybe I just hope they go bankrupt since I'm still way po'd at Parsons for his .tv tantrum and the damage it caused to all of us who invested in .tv. Domain investors purchased names from his auction site in good faith for a long time and then suddenly he tells the world that those are essentially worthless. He knows its BS too, he was just having a tiff with Verisign and we got caught in the crossfire. Its something he should own up to, apologize for and find someway to make amends. Until he does he nothing but s*** in my book. A very small man with a very big mouth and a proven danger to the small domainer.

That said as a practical matter they still rank higher as a registrar than most, at least in terms of dealing with bs. They play games there like almost everywhere but I'm familiar with them and have learned how to deal with it. Its easy to move names out of GD, even if I have to wait 60 days (something I consider too, will I have to spend another years renewal there or will I be able to move it out before I have to drop Parsons more coin.)

Of course it all depends on the name. A great name going for a great price it isnt going to worry me too much where its at as long as its a bona fide registrar. I've moved names out namecheap and name.com before so I know its possible. But if its a marginal name then where its registered could make a 20, 50, 100 dollar difference, or even the difference between my having any interest at all. Sometimes the potential bother just isnt worth it.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

Thanks for clearing that up Fin

I too tend not to drive TV names to GoDaddy any longer. This is such a shame as so many here were great fans of Bob and his wonderful promotion of the .TV brand. Sadly, his hoped for deal to play a bigger part in the future of .TV didn't come off and many certainly suffered his wrath. Interestingly, for such a smart man, he didn't reckon on the many hundreds of domainers who threw some of that wrath back and voted with their feet going to other much cheaper providers.

I also agree that there are certainly times when transferring names can be the most annoying unproductive chore known to humanity. Like many I overcome the problem by having at least one account with most of the major registrars and employing a fairly nifty database.

Transferring does, of course, ensure that you get the best prices, so it does have its upside.

 

[gr8trfoo]

I just want to add that Dynadot gives me the highest failed transfer out rate of any registrar. Maybe that figures since the 2nd year price is so high. Names there mos' def' suffer a penalty in the resales price.

And the easiest? Moniker. Too bad their price is so high.