Yeah, apparently it was my connection. Anyway, I love the pricing and I think it can be a good alternative to Go Daddy and other popular registrants. Is it a new registrar, or it's just me living in a cave?
As far as I know, they started about two or three years ago.
So, I switched one test domain to them last week. I love their management interface. It's fast and intuitive with payment options aplenty.
My only issue (and I doubt it's an issue for 99.99% of their customers), I need to URL frame/stealth forward my domain to another URL. Unfortunately, the forwarding frame border and spacing messes up the destination page formatting. The destination site is a total POS, but the non-profit organization I'm pro-bono administering for wants to stick with it, so I'm stuck with what they have.
I also previously registered it with Name.com, Internetbs and NameSecure. Internetbs and NameSecure both stealth forward with no issues. Name.com had the same stealth forwarding issues as NameSilo. Bear in mind, this is forwarding for a crappy, screwed up site. Name.com and NameSilo stealth forwarding will probably work perfectly with 99.99% of all websites they register.
I also had a NameCheap account just to see what their interface was like. It's similar to Name.com and NameSilo, fast and intuitive, but I never actually registered a domain with them. One thing I didn't care for, they are not really a registrar; NameCheap is an Enom reseller.
Registrars I would recommend overall based on features and pricing are Name.com, Internetbs, NameCheap (really Enom) and NameSilo.
The best, most intuitive account interfaces are NameSilo, Name.com and NameCheap.
The best pricing would have to be NameSilo and Internetbs, and they both offer free whois privacy for life. Name.com does offer free whois privacy, but you have to find a damn coupon code every year to get it = pain is the ass.
On a side note, I like the fact NameSilo and Internetbs just specialize in domain registrations. They don't offer web hosting or any other similar services, just the registrations.
So, for me, I'm sticking with Internetbs due to my URL forwarding issues, but I still highly recommend NameSilo, probably more than all the others -- super cheap, intuitive account interface, free whois privacy for life. :thumbup: