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Namecheap Review

If you've read any of my web development related blog posts you might have noticed that I strongly favor the domain registrar called Namecheap instead of the way more popular companies like Godaddy, ENom (I know namecheap is a reseller of Enom, but it doesn't count!) and various others that I can't remember the name of.

I'm going to list my reasons as to why i think Namecheap is the absolute best fucking domain registrar on the market right now.

1. No fucking upsells!

If you've ever tried to register a domain with a large company like Godaddy you might know what I'm talking about, an upsell is the process of trying to bundle in or get you to buy an extra product for the product you are trying to buy, for a computer store this would normally be an extra charger or a USB flash drive or something like that, but with domains, there are a whole lot more bullshit you can trick the customer into thinking they need, Godaddy is particularly shit when it comes to this.

They will try to sell you:

  • 3 additional domain extensions(TLD's)
  • Domain Privacy
  • Hosting
  • Hosting with site builder
  • Email hosting
  • and they default the number of years to register your domain for to 2 years instead of one.

This wastes my time and annoys me when I just want to register my damned domain name and assign it to a nameserver quickly.

On namecheap you are presented with a search box, then you select your domain extension(TLD), add it to your cart, then it takes you to your cart and you can purchase the domain right away, although Namecheap adds on a Domain Privacy service, it is free for the first year and half of the time this is something you might want to add in the first place, I don't use it on personal domains(like this one).

2. Competent Support People

I have had to contact the support people a few times when i was new t o domains and domain management as a whole, the support people at Namecheap really knows what they are doing and will be happy to help you with pretty much any problems you could be having, they are friendly, knows English and knows their domains!

3. Great interface and management options.

Namecheap's domain management interface is some of the best and easiest that I've ever used, its fast to navigate through and you can do mass updating to several domains at once, this was particular useful when I moved from Hostgator(Review) to MDDHosting (Review), as I had to update the nameservers for around 16 domains at once to make sure i didn't get any downtime and such.

Their recent redesign of the main page was a little weird at first, but I've grown to prefer this layout and design, and find their domain search to be a better experience as a whole after the redesign.

4. Great Prices

NameCheap as the name suggests, has great prices for their domains, SSL's and hosting as well, In fact, I was considering using their hosting as opposed to MDDHosting, but ended up choosing MDDHosting due to them allowing me more domains(Namecheap restricts you to 5 for the same price MDDHosting gives you "unlimited").

A normal .COM domain goes for $10.69/year which is a great price.

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5. Actually Useful Newsletters

We're all signed up to at least a few bullshit newsletters that we're too lazy to unsubscribe to, but with namecheap you actually might want to go ahead and sign up, because these people won't spam you and their newsletters and sales are actually really damned useful.