Easiest-to-use registrar for newbie?

[randomo]

Hi folks,

A friend has asked me to register domains as gifts for two of her teenage kids (presumably, so they can set up their own websites there). I am trying to figure out which registrar is easiest for newbies like them to navigate.

I sold a Moniker domain to a newbie today, and discovered it took 12 steps to tell her how to do URL forwarding. I'm looking for a registrar whose interface is simpler and more intuitive.

GoDaddy seems a lot easier, but I hesitate to use it because I don't think the mom would appreciate me sending her kids to a site that shows cheesecake-y pictures of "GoDaddy girls".

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[dnb8]

dynadot.com is very easy to use

 

[filter]

2nd for dynadot - nice clean, fast interface.

Also nice that you can delete any "ooopsie" domains within 5 days easily via the web interface for a full credit (as opposed to $1 charge for the same leeway from Moniker - which is also nice enough, to be sure).

 

[mis_chiff]

I agree with above for Dynadot, when I was a newbie
it was very easy to navigate their site. (any free hosting?)

Although Godaddy offers free hosting as well, which
I found to be a blessing, until I got familiar enough for
my own outside hosting.

 

[wisedude]

I honestly think godaddy is pretty easy to use... I've never had a problem with them

 

[randomo]

I honestly think godaddy is pretty easy to use... I've never had a problem with them

I think so too, but my first post mentioned why I don't want to use them for this purpose.

By the way: these domains will be for a brother and sister, and I'd rather not set up two separate accounts. Is there a registrar that allows you to associate a password with a specific domain, so that multiple people can log into the basic account but each one can only manage his or her own domain?

 

[VURG]

For this purpose, I like name.com. Very easy to set up a Google email address and Google webpage with them. Initial year is cheap as well.

Alternatively, you could set up a reseller with one of the many providers and then they know that they have good customer support by contacting you.

 

[weblord]

for me idotz.net is easy to use, godaddy are for advanced users.

 

[domainer50]

Godaddy is and always has been my personal favorite.

 

[filter]

I think so too, but my first post mentioned why I don't want to use them for this purpose.

GoDaddy == SlowDaddy ... if they weren't so cheap and widely used by other domainers, I'd be done with them before you could say "Buh-Bye" - and sure wouldn't miss wrangling with their bloated cheesy-ad-serving interface. Almost every time I try to do a push or make a change to some domain settings, it hangs and I have to cancel and re-enter all the info. And my browser starts burning CPU whenever I leave one of their pages open ...

By the way: these domains will be for a brother and sister, and I'd rather not set up two separate accounts. Is there a registrar that allows you to associate a password with a specific domain, so that multiple people can log into the basic account but each one can only manage his or her own domain?

I think you can do this fairly easily via SRSplus.com (a NetSol subsidiary I use for some of my "not for sale" regs) - but it would involve setting up a reseller account ($250 initial funding, can reload thereafter with smaller amounts, $8.45 reg fee for dot com / net / org) ... Though thinking about it, seems like it would probably would be much easier and cheaper to just setup 2 separate accounts at DynaDot ... (Wondering, what reason do you have for wanting a "parent" account for these? Guessing either hoping for simpler setup or want an easy failsafe in case kid loses a password? Or ...?)

 

[Alex]

Dynadot is easy to use as well as namecheap.

 

[domainer50]

Dynadot is easy to use as well as namecheap.

I forgot about namecheap. They are defintley easy to use. But i still think godaddy is thebest.

 

[lzy]

Namecheap! The control panel there is so so easy to use. Plus I bought my first name there. :D

 

[domainer50]

Namecheap! The control panel there is so so easy to use. Plus I bought my first name there. :D

Gotta love the registrars where you bought your first name from.

 

[Jackie]

Gotta love the registrars where you bought your first name from.

I owned my first domain at Registerfly. Don't have much to show for them. :yell: :hehe: :lol:

 

[abcproductions]

DomainHollywood is cool, classy and inexpensive.
$7.15 for a .com registrations and $1.99 .info registrations.
check them out.

 

[naveen]

Namecheap has easy-to-use control panel. I registered my first domain with GoDaddy and my 90% domains are with them. Domains are cheap at GoDaddy with lots of coupons available. You have to be ad-blind and careful while registering at GoDaddy. Now, I am habituated to the process and move fast to the checkout process.

 

[networkmsia]

Dynadot is easy to use.

I love namecheap, but I its more for us domainers who needs to push domains around.

 

[sashas]

Moniker and Dynadot.
Another plus: they allow tasting. So you can delete all those crappy, middle of the night regs (I've used this feature a LOT)

 

[htmlindex]

I vote for Name.com, easy to use & it's cheap as well, $5.99 for domains