Comments on: Register.com Home Page is a Winner

By: Confluence: Group - PR

Confluence: Group - PR — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:34 +0000

HUGE in the Press…

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By: haan

haan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:13:52 +0000

hi, was trying to transfer my domain out of register.com. their $35/year is dear, and it’s annoying having to call them in order to get an Auth Code… and I’m not staying in US…

Rob said they took 5 minutes.. for the Auth Code, and the sales guy will try to convince u to stay… OMG, this is not good!!

By: jen

jen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:35:12 +0000

Hi, I am a blog theme & layout designer. I visited new register.com site. It’s really fabulous and easy to navigate. Another such domain name registrar site is Best28.com which has recently re-designed its viewer-interface with bold fonts and easy language for novice blogger. I think Network Solutions, Godaddy should learn something from this. Even Aplus.net got much better.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:35:38 +0000

Here’s a statement from Register.com:

Thank you for the great comments about our new website design. We’re really proud of our simple, clean new look and we think it really shows the focus of our brand which is all about helping small businesses be successful on the web.

Right now we’re in the testing phase for the new Register.com website. We’re being very diligent and have already implemented several usability fixes to make sure the new site performs well and there is no break in service for our customers. Once we complete this testing and tweaking – which that is part of any new website launch – we will open the site to full traffic.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:43:40 +0000

Jason – that is odd. Old logo and everything.

By: Jason Lavigne

Jason Lavigne — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:34:02 +0000

Strange that for me their site has reverted back to the old site …could be they are having technical problems with the new site and had to roll things back??

By: A. Edward

A. Edward — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:21:46 +0000

Register.com could be a little more painful—but not much more painful for the 10% of American men who have some form of colorblindness. Put three American white guys in a room and there is a 22% chance that one or more of us will find Register.com’s new website too painful to use.

Light blue (?) letters on a white background are hard to see, even for guys with only mild red-green colorblindness. Dark blue font on a light blue background is equally bad and displays a lack of QA and design proficiency for usability. Merely taking a screen shot and gray scaling it isn’t going to show how to make a site more usable.

The 2008 award winner for un-usability is of course the new BulkRegister website. With red (?) font on a black background the site is practically unusable.

In reply to a help-desk-request, BR said they considered usability for colorblind people to be a feature that they would consider at some point in the future.