GoDaddy top registrar, eNom tops for big players: Survey
GoDaddy cleaned up in the 2006 Reglike Survey, but eNom was most popular among the biggest domain name owners.
[Editors note: this is the second in a series of posts with results from the 2006 Reglike survey. The complete results of the survey will be posted soon.]
GoDaddy is the world’s biggest domain name registrar- and for good reason. It initially attracted clients to its low prices but offers great additional services and good account security features. Given that price and security are the chief concerns of domain name owners, it’s only fitting that GoDaddy ranked number one on all of our survey questions regarding registrars.
Still, these results tell only part of the story. If you only consider the responses of domain name owners that have 1,000 or more domains, eNom tops each result by a sizable margin. I use both GoDaddy and eNom equally. You have to appreciate the ease of using eNom. It takes regarding 15 seconds to register a domain at eNom; it takes a number of minutes at GoDaddy. GoDaddy recently added a feature to keep a credit card on file, but you still have to go through pages of upsells and confirmations ahead of ordering a domain. eNom also makes it extremely easy to push domains to other accounts. GoDaddy’s process is cumbersome and requires you to have the complete Whois information of the person receiving the domain.
Here are the results of the registrar questions in the 2006 Reglike survey for the entire survey population:
Which registrar do you think has the best account management interface?
GoDaddy 33%
eNom 22%
Register.com 20%
Network Solutions 10%
Dotster 6%
DirectNic 4%
Moniker 3%
Tucows (OpenSRS) 2%
(30% of domainers with 1,000+ domains voted for eNom)
Which registrar do you think makes it easiest to “push” domains to a fresh user?
GoDaddy 26%
eNom 26%
Register.com 20%
Network Solutions 11%
Dotster 7%
Tucows (OpenSRS) 4%
DirectNic 4%
Moniker 3%
(30% of domainers with 1,000+ domains voted for eNom)
Which registrar do you think is best overall?
GoDaddy 28%
eNom 20%
Register.com 18%
Network Solutions 9%
Moniker 8%
Dotster 7%
Tucows (OpenSRS) 5%
DirectNic 5%
(29% of domainers with 1,000+ domains voted for eNom)
Check back soon for more survey results.
