Registration at NameCheap.com is $8.88, but it includes private Whois. That plus other features including the most pain-free domain push option have made them my faviorite.

Select your profile, and get your price. Don’t hesitate to contact us for an individual quote.

Stephan

I’d also like to share a few points.

As you pointed out, the GoDaddy discount coupon codes come via email either in the GoDaddy newsletter or in the renewal notices.

If you don’t receive the newsletter be sure to request it from the Control Panel.

And be sure to check the renewal notices.

If you simply log into your account to order domains or do a renewal, you will not automatically get the discount without the codes.

Know also that there are often many offers
at the same time.

GoDaddy often makes special offers thru various venues.

You can often find some of these discount codes by doing a Google search for “GoDaddy coupons”.

There’s also a site dedicated to domain coupon codes- DNCoupons.com.
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Moniker requires the $500 prepay IF you are funding your account with a credit card.

Credit card transaction fees is the reason, I believe.

You can mail in a check for a lesser amount (although it will of course take longer).

At least this is what I was told.
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Regarding 1and1.com, besides the cumbersome management interface, domains are NOT ordered
in real time.

It takes 24 to 48 hours to get a domain registered.

Nowhere on their site is this very important
info mentioned.

You need to know this if you are trying to register recent domain drops or any domain for that matter.

This is not theory.

I have hundreds of domains at 1and1.

I have lost many domains because of this lag time.

Domains that were available when I placed my order were registered by others.

I saw that those domains I lost were regged many hours or the next day after my reg order.

After contacting 1and1 about this ,I received an email that stated it takes 24 to 48 hours to register a domain “and there is nothing that can be done about this”.

1and1 is a subsidiary of Schlund.de.

Although I don’t know for certain, I suspect
domain orders at 1and1 are being aggregated and batch sent to Schlund.de to be regged.

I have learned my lesson and will never order from 1and1 again.

However, if you already have domains that are important ,you can Transfer them to 1and 1
to get the low rate.

Just remember you cannot do Bulk updates for
DNS ,etc.

Patrick