# Please recommend a domain name reg company

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387 "2004-01-28T05:48:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/1 "2004-01-28T05:48:50Z")

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The company that I work for needs to reserve a bunch of domain names for various websites.

Can you folks recommend a good domain name registration service? We want someplace that’s cheap, but still reliable.

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**Author:** ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/2 "2004-01-28T19:26:45Z")

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[GoDaddy](http://www.godaddy.com/) has worked well for me.

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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/3 "2004-01-29T01:28:51Z")

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Same here.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/4 "2004-01-29T01:38:25Z")

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> [@Mr2001](#):
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> Same here.

[Dotster](http://www.dotster.com) has been great.

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**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/5 "2004-01-29T04:58:24Z")

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I switched from Network Solutions to GoDaddy and reupped at the same time. I was worried how it would go, considering the problems I had with Netsol, but GoDaddy handled it all without a hitch.

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**Author:** ![Joools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Joools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joools)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/6 "2004-01-29T07:16:47Z")

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I’ve been very happy with [pairnic](http://www.pairnic.com/).

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**Author:** ![bobinheber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bobinheber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobinheber)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-domain-name-reg-company/226387/7 "2004-01-30T01:09:55Z")

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