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Am I the only one using iWantMyName.com?
Like some of the others described here, I like that their ui is dead simple and easy to navigate, once a year when I have to renew. And their prices seem to be middle tier.
I use them right now, but I’ve been disappointed lately and I’m considering moving away. They’re more expensive than other options and you have to contact customer service for some things, but their response times are pretty slow. E.g., they don’t have an interface to add glue records, so you have to ask them to do it… when I did this it took them a couple days to get back to me, and they forgot to add the IPv6 records too. My other domains are registered elsewhere (for cheaper) and they just had an interface to do this and it happened instantly. I keep running into problems like this with iwantmyname and it’s been kind of frustrating. I had problems with their name servers dying for a bit recently too… I was happy with them for years, but they’ve caused enough problems for me lately that I’m wondering why I’m paying extra for them.
Funny you posting on this older comment of mine today - I am in the midst of a support case with them. We'll see how it turns out!
They usually get it sorted out pretty well, but their response times can be a little slow. It’s potentially not a huge deal for you, and overall they’ve been okay… this is sort of understandable because they’re in New Zealand and seem to want to make sure their support staff are paid well (though they were bought by a larger company recently, so I'm not sure if this still holds, seems like it did as of 2019, though):
This makes them seem like a cool company, and I'd like to support them... But despite that I do feel a little disappointed paying more for a worse service, and I think they really need to invest in providing interfaces for some of the more advanced DNS settings, particularly if their customer support is going to be limited by their own admission.
They also have some blog posts about customer service that give me some weird vibes...
Definitely in support of their customer service team in this example, and don't want them to be treated poorly or sworn at or anything... But it's a little weird to put this on blast like this and I think it'd be a better look to just leave it at "these are the things that would help us help you, we need to make sure accounts are secure so we can't just ignore passwords, etc etc"
And it's also a little weird that they have this post complaining about some web-hosts poor interface and customer service too:
Neither of these are particularly bad, but I guess it makes me a bit disappointed that I've run into similar problems with them, and I'm not sure they're doing enough to address things on their end.
I don't think I'd tell anybody not to use them because they have been good for the most part, but they're not as fully featured as other registrars in my experience, and they're more expensive.