| Domain Name Registrars Evaluation |
| I did an exhaustive search for the best domain registrar when I renewed my domain in 2000. Here are the results. |
 FeedbackBy Preston Hunt, 09 July 2002 |
ICANN List of Official Registrars
- $10.95/year
- Free .catch all. mail forwarding
- Unlimited size for e-mail forwarding
- Unlimited e-mail accounts
- Unlimited free subdomains
- Negative: Requires printing and faxing form
- Negative: They screwed me Jun30-Jul6 when the messed up my MX records, but they still seem to be the best deal, so I am going to give them one more chance
- Customer support is guaranteed 24 hours via e-mail (they seem to live up to this)
- $8.95/month
- E-mail forwarding, $1/year extra
- Positive: 24/7 customer support, with phone numbers
- #1 registrar for new ICANN filings in 2002
- Appears to be unlimited size for e-mail forwarding
- Negative: No catch-all e-mail (they sell e-mail aliases at 99 cents for 5)
- ~$12/year
- Status page showing current status of all services
- Free e-mail forwarding included (2MB limit on forwards)
- Recommended by Lyza's friend at Kavi
- $18/year
- SLA for customer support is 2 business days (e-mail support only)
- Kinda expensive and it looks like they don.t support any freebie services
- $14/year
- No free features
- Many features available but for high price
- Rated high by cnet
- $35/year
- Free web hosting
- $12.50/year
- Free DNS (A/MX record)
- Free anymail forwarder
- Unprofessional looking site design
- $8/year
- DNS services included in price
- Only 1 free e-mail account via POP3/IMAP (no forwarding)
- $11.95/$14.95 year
- DNS, Mail cost $10/year extra