LifeHacker Vote: Five Best Domain Name Registrars
LifeHacker is currently running a poll, asking readers to vote for their favorite domain name registrar. When the poll was last run in 2010, the winning domain registrar was Namecheap. The poll will close this year at 6am on Tuesday, so you should vote now.
There were only 9,142 votes cast in the 2010 poll, and there are already 11,217 votes in this year’s edition. I think social media has probably played a roll in this year’s voting. In fact, Namecheap is even offering a special promotion via Twitter if it’s voted the best registrar and Name.com is retweeting comments from customers who voted for them.
The five finalists (chosen by readers) include:
- Dreamhost
- Gandi
- Hover
- Namecheap
- Name.com
One interesting aspect of the vote is that LifeHacker isn’t hiding the vote totals. At the moment, Hover is the leading vote getter, followed by Name.com.
The only thing on the line here is pride, and likely additional business brought on by the added exposure. Vote for your favorite domain registrar today – I am sure each would appreciate your support.
PS: My vote is for Name.com because the company has been a sponsor of my blog for a few years, and the people at the company really seem to care about their customers.
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Shane
They sent an email to all their customers asking for a vote which I thought was odd. I’ll vote for Name if they sponsor my blog as well 🙂
Jared
Thanks Shane! This thing is nutty competitive. We had to pull out all the stops.
BullS
Dreamhost…I called them deadhost.
Never had good customer service and their own CPanel sucks.
They lost all my sites and content and no phone support.
krishna
I think Godaddy should be in the list. I don’t think it is that much bad. They try to offer you unnecessary services but service is good.
Donald Aquilano
I can think of three right off the top of my head that should be on this list….dynadot, enom and fabulous.
Woot
@elliot … Yes, i did vote for name.com but it just doesnt Sound Right for the reason that you voted..
Elliot Silver
Why not? Do you think people should have voted because they’d get a $.99 registration code?
I could have also said I voted for Name.com because it’s the only other registrar on the list I use.
Woot
@elliot
We All know that your blog is sponsored by name.com but in this blog it Will be Right to give a good reason that you voted for… Since we All know that it wasn’t the Best hosting provider since you Host your blog at godaddy (sopa, elephant) and only reason that you let your visitors understand why you voted for name is, though you haven’t use the service yourself but from what you heard that name has a good customer service and that they sponsor your blog and that males mé sick… Come with better explnation
Elliot Silver
As I said in my comment, it is the only registrar on the list I use. This has nothing to do with hosting either.
patti
I’d like to know which domain name register has the best website building tools, if you decide to host with them as well. Um…I’m assuming host is the right word….
patti
A gorgeous Latina socio-eco-climbing slut bad-mouthed the owner of Name to me last year.
Elliot Silver
Bill Mushkin is a cool dude.