Every 18 months or so there has been a best registrar poll on Namepros. GoDaddy won the last two, the last one was closer with @namesilo coming in second, 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5%. The previous big poll saw GoDaddy run away with it 303 votes or 52%.
This time around NameSilo and Dynadot are the leaders, NameSilo has a decent lead with 26% of the vote. Dynadot is actually second and GoDaddy is in third. For some other registrars they have certainly seen their popularity dip. Uniregistry has only 5.3% of the vote compared to 11.2% 18 months ago.
Some have expressed their bewilderment in NameSilo being in first place,
Why NameSilo is taking number one in this poll is beyond me. Aren’t we got no class? A registrar that has nothing to offer, and looks like early 90s blog. This is the registrar you’re voting number one? #SMH
That explains why 90% of registered domains are crap. Why people spends tones of USD on Sedo to promote craps that will never sell.
The real SHOCKING stats is why GoDaddy is not running away with this poll? (apologies for my pole misspellings above. To late to edit). They should be easily winning this poll because they have so many more domains under registration.
To explain that. GoDaddy might be under-represented with NPer’s and NameSilo might be over-represented with NPer’s. Or maybe GoDaddy users are not so happy with GoDaddy any more.
Dynadot has had a big update with only 78 votes last time and already at 140.
These threads do give registrars and their employees some insight into what their customers want and don’t want.
View the poll here
VR says
May 16, 2019 at 5:28 pmI don’t get namesilo or dynadot being the best registrar. why has uni fallen so much?
Jack says
May 16, 2019 at 8:39 pmWhile I don’t participate on namepros, Uni has probably lost favour because of the Domain Perks rollout. Portfolio owners lost their usual discount and now need to pay hundreds of dollars each year to get the same pricing. The larger your portfolio, the more you need to pay for the privilege of using Uni. I would love to go back to Uni, but the new pricing doesn’t sit well with me in principle. Dynadot is one of just a few decent no nosense registrars. Not sure about Namesilo, I only have one name there and I don’t like the interface.
David says
May 19, 2019 at 1:13 am“Dynadot is one of just a few decent no nosense registrars.”
You must be joking!! After ‘registering’ and paying for domains Dynadot don’t actually register the domains… they wait as long as over 24 hours later before registering the domains. So you pay and ‘register’ the domains, or so you thought… however, the domains are then just sat there free for anyone to register 24 hours later!!!
DYNADOT WORST DOMAIN REGISTRAR EVER!!!
Paul drake says
May 16, 2019 at 9:36 pmWhy can’t people understand why namesilo is getting the votes ,it comes down to ease ,after many many years ,I still have trouble navigating godaddy ,the site really sucks,namesilo is simple to use a first timer can easily get around,also to transfer a domain from godaddy accoun5 to godaddy account is like pulling teeth,name silo you can just push a domain into another account,The only thing godaddy has that others don’t is customer service ,you may have to wait eternally but eventually you get a live person .Look I once had 3k domains at gd now ns has the bulk,The only thing gd can do is buy namesilo,after they f that up ,I’ll move them to porkbun, oh I forgot to mention free privacy
VR says
May 17, 2019 at 12:43 pmNamesilo is not best at anything, like the one poster looks like a 1990’s blog. They are not best in price, not in backend, not in management. Best in absolutely nothing.
Dk says
May 17, 2019 at 5:50 pmI like name silo, easy to use, quick to edit. Good bulk edits, no hard up sells. Godaddy is very bad in up and cross sells. Namesilo keeps it easy.