Is the domain registrar 1and1 reliable?
Hi i haven’t registered any of my domains with the provider which you mentioned here so i dont know anything about their service ..However if you are looking for some other reliable provider to register domain name then i will refer you to approach XnYnZ.com here they register domain name for affordable cost ..
Interesting that you ask that today. I’m currently having an argument over billing with 1and1, about a $5.99 domain name — they say I never paid for it and have locked me out of my ‘free’ webspace, I say I did pay for it, and and can prove it with a copy of my credit card bill. Trouble is, I can’t find anyone at 1and1 who is sentient enough to help me, and the toll free number they listed as the proper number to call for this billing dispute comes up as “dee Dee DEE … we’re sorry, the number you called is not in service”. My website has been down for over a week because of it … not a big deal, as I don’t get much traffic, but a frustrating and annoying experience as now they’re threatening to send the account to a debt collection agency — after a mere 15 days. Don’t do it.
I can certainly see moving an existing domain, or a new one registered elsewhere, to 1and1 hosting (it’s hard to beat the price… free) but I think you gotta be out of your tree to give the DNS control to them. Fork over the eight or nine bucks to GoDaddy, do the DNS yourself, and keep backups. Switching hosts is no big deal, fighting over a disputed domain is a nightmare — then again, it probably wouldn’t hurt you to lose a few (dozen).
