poll Which registrar do you feel safest with?

[equity78]

Forget favorite or best overall, which registrar would be your pick from a safety standpoint.

Things like

Their security
Financial position
Free speech and how they work with government agencies
Have true privacy protection that they won't easily allowed penetrated
Redemption periods
Getting paid or refunds

etc...

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[Dandelion]

A long history...of treating customers poorly (unless ur a whale).

Domain transfer validation...more like a nightmare when you want to transfer your own domain name.

If there's voting on the worst registrar, I'll gladly pick Godaddy without hesitation. Everything about Godaddy is designed to rip off unsuspecting naive customers. To me, their business activity is close to fraudulent.

 

[phptechie]

I have been using GoDaddy for the past 15 years & had no trouble at all in terms of security / outage / billing / discounts / customer service etc,..

But there are few cons as well
# the prices are getting bit costlier.
# there are no loyalty bonus points for long term clients.

As a web developer , I have worked with a lot of clients who have their names registered with other registrars as well.
But most of the time , I work with website hosted with variety of hosting providers .
Godaddy stands out as an registrar as well as hosting provider.

** I'm no way related or affiliated with GoDaddy , rather I'm just an end user like you all.
These are based out of my own personal experience

 

[Grilled]

why do I get the feeling that you could ask a random question like "which registrar likes cheese the best" and the voting will follow a similar pattern?

Maybe you just really like cheese, and/or are projecting your cheese love/obsession onto the forum?

Full Disclosure:

Forget favorite or best overall, which registrar would be your pick from a safety standpoint.

Things like

Their security
Financial position
Free speech and how they work with government agencies
Have true privacy protection that they won't easily allowed penetrated
Redemption periods
Getting paid or refunds

etc...

I really like the new format.

Just a few points of feedback, before I do a little more research to try and finalize my result.

Pros
+ the 3 choice option
+ change your vote
+ focus on safety, with a great list of example points to consider

Neutral
+/- The shortened period, while it might yield quicker results, and will likely encompass the bulk amount of voters, it limits the amount of time, one can research, and consider answers to such example points raised in OP.

Suggestion
First, I appreciate your efforts in creating this poll/thread, and don't mean to sound ungrateful. Recognizing your efforts, and that additional efforts would be likely be time/interest dependent, and/or such research would likely deserve to be financially incentivized, I think (if repeated in future years) it would be beneficial to display certain data points that could be detailed in the OP, such as a graph or bullet points, to questions such as each registrars redemption period dates/fees, and other yes/no of date/fee tangible/comparable policy metrics. Rather than relying on comments from other members or registrars, perhaps a X amount of time before the poll is created, a generic email/DM can be sent to all registrar PR department, in hopes of a comment clarifying certain policies? Or if possible, aggregating relevant policy links; not sure which would be easier/most accurate. This longwinded suggestion comes from me having just placed my vote now, yet there are certain questions I don't know the answer to, regarding one of my votes, and upon further clarification (or added knowledge), I may find that reason to change my vote, hence the appreciation for the change my vote option.

 

[7363824]

I have been using GoDaddy for the past 15 years & had no trouble at all in terms of security / outage / billing / discounts / customer service etc,..

But there are few cons as well
# the prices are getting bit costlier.
# there are no loyalty bonus points for long term clients.

As a web developer , I have worked with a lot of clients who have their names registered with other registrars as well.
But most of the time , I work with website hosted with variety of hosting providers .
Godaddy stands out as an registrar as well as hosting provider.

** I'm no way related or affiliated with GoDaddy , rather I'm just an end user like you all.
These are based out of my own personal experience

I suppose they might be fine if you just hold a name there and do nothing. As soon as you try to transfer it out its trouble frustration and dealing with horrible support.

 

[eurorealtor]

Dynadot & GoDaddy

 

[JB Lions]

Congrats

1. Dynadot
2. Epik
3. GoDaddy
4. Namesilo

I think we're good with Registrar polls this year Raymond.

 

[Samer]

@Mod Team Bravo, forgive me for asking but,

How can yu feel safe with registrar still in beta?

Samer

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

How can yu feel safe with registrar still in beta?

When it comes to security, it's almost impossible for anyone to do better than Google:

• https://safety.google/

But we can all keep doing our best.

 

[7363824]

When it comes to security, it's almost impossible for anyone to do better than Google:

• https://safety.google/

But we can all keep doing our best.

So long as they don't kill it.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

 

[Dynadot]

Thank you voters! We appreciate your confidence in us.