What is the best domain registrar, in terms of price, service, and features? Is it best to go through one of the big names, or a smaller service? I'm still stuck on the basics, I'm afraid.
Domain registration is becoming cheaper. In my opinion, it doesn't matter who you register with. Just make sure you have access to your domain. You should be able to edit or modify your domain informatiion.
I like Namecheap and Godaddy.
I generally use Namecheap though because I find the sign up process for GD to be a pain. To many add-on sales pages before check out.
Why are these guys best for resellers? I checked their pricing and they retail .COM registrations for $30, which is at least 3 times more expensive than other players.
I use GoDaddy exclusively for domain registration and management and have for about four years now. Always a good experience!
One note about GoDaddy: someone needs to tell their sales and design departments to do away with the insane amount of add-on purchases and other badly placed ads on the site and during the purchase process - you get used to avoid them fairly quickly but it must be intimidating for new users.
I'll throw in my good experience with NameCheap here also - I've used them fairly extensively in the past due to domain purchases and their support really was fantastic at every turn.