1&1 is our domain registrar of choice these days, here’s why:
- The 1&1 website is responsive and easy to navigate.
- Very little up-sell; buying a domain is a simple process. They don’t even ask you to re-enter card details.
- Domain privacy is FREE.
- Domains are reliable.
- Additional mailboxes and forwarding is FREE and easy to set up.
- Currently 1&1 offer .com domains for $6.99 per year.
- Technical support is a little slow, but efficient and knowledgeable.
- Hosting servers are up-to-date and feature packed.
- No hidden charges and no dodgy business practices.
- 1&1 is the most reliable and affordable registrar we have worked with.
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GoDaddy is a terrible hosting company and domain registrar, here’s why:
- The GoDaddy website is slow and badly designed.
- The up-sell is ridiculous! There are about 5 separate pages of unnecessary add-ons and features that you have to avoid every time you want to purchase a domain name.
- You have to pay extra for domain privacy (this is FREE at 1&1).
- Sometimes domain privacy breaks, and you have to pay for it again to make it work.
- The Email Forwarding service is hard to manage and will often break, without warning, so your emails get delayed and sometimes lost for good.
- They are not nearly as cheap as they claim. You get far more for your money at other hosting companies like 1&1 and Moniker and any of the smaller companies.
- Technical support takes at least 24 hours to answer a simple request.
- They run old, out-of-date versions of software on their servers.
- GoDaddy is notorious for charging its users ridiculous fines from supposed “breaches” of its policy without the user being aware.
- Ultimately GoDaddy are trying to screw their customers with poor service, old software, spammy up-sell messages, and whatever else they can think of.
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