I’ve tried quite a few cheap domain registrars, and my ultimate opinion is that whereas GoDaddy is exceptional, RegisterFly is hoplessly bad. Like a bad restaurant at a tourist destination, they seem to rely on the attraction of low prices, and don’t care about repeat customers.

I’m sure I could list dozens of faults, but here’s two:

1) When you transfer a domain to another registrar, it still remains in your account, and you get renewal reminders. The only way around this is to contact support and ask then to remove it. It’s not like they can gain any extra business from this, it’s just inept and annoying.

2) When you try to renew a domain, you get an email like this:

STANDARDIZED FORM OF AUTHORIZATION
DOMAIN NAME TRANSFER - Confirmation of Registrar Transfer Request

Attention: Robert Skelton
Re: Transfer of *********.com

Registerfly.com received notification on Jan  1 2007 12:00AM (EST) that
you have requested a transfer to another domain name registrar.  If you
want to proceed with this transfer, you do not need to respond to this
message.  If you wish to either cancel or expedite the transfer, please
respond to this message before Jan  6 2007 12:00AM (EST) by using the
following URL:

How bad is that? GoDaddy takes a few minutes to renew a domain. RegisterFly takes 3 days and throws in a bonus massively misleading & confusing email!