DISCLAIMER: This is not a paid, promotional or affiliate-linked post. My intention to promote Namecheap.com is purely because of my excellent experience with them and I want to pass the benefit of their excellent service to my blog readers.
I joined Namecheap.com in 2008, almost by accident. They had started off their Christmas Twitter Trivia Contest that December and I decided to try my luck. I had planned to win a single domain name credit and transfer the domain to Name Cheap (they give you credits to either purchase, renew to transfer domains) for this blog so that I would not have to hunt around for that $10.00 to renew the domain for the following year. Needless to say, I ended up winning credits for 4 domains.
For the next couple of years, I had the opportunity to do business with them. My domain renewal was well covered for 4 years; so I had the flexibility to divert the fund towards other areas, such as hosting, design fees for my other projects, etc.
Namecheap proved to be an excellent domain registrar. No more I had to deal with the clutter at my former registrar (He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! – You Know Who 
). But that wasn’t the best part. Namecheap had freebies and deals that only an insane company could offer. Free Whois privacy, free SSL certificates, incredibly low cost hosting, the cheapest renewals… , the list goes on.
Namecheap’s control panel is so clean and easy to navigate that my 90 year old grandma could easily register a domain, set up her hosting and be online in minutes. Gone were the days of pages upon pages of up-sells and promotional sh*t. I knew then that Name Cheap was destined to become bigger and better.
So it did not come as a surprise when Name Cheap was voted the best domain registrar earlier in December, 2010 in an independent poll. People had already vouched for Name Cheap’s superiority in the industry on various blogs, forums and newsgroups, however, the poll finally gave them something to point to in order to justify their point.
Innovative Marketing
Why the need for Superbowl commercials when there is twitter? If you follow Name Cheap on Twitter (by the way, I highly recommend following them), you may notice that they very effectively use the twitter platform to market themselves and their products. Various twitter contests are conducted throughout the year in which popular electronic gadgets are given out as grand prices in addition to the hourly domain giveaways worth thousands of dollars. A contest is currently running in which $500 can be won per week and a grand price is worth $5000. You may wanna check that out here.
Of course, the big one is held two weeks prior to Christmas; The Namecheap Holiday Trivia Contest. Every hour, a trivia question is generated, which you need to answer in order to win domain credits. The top scorers win the grand prize; the latest and greatest electronic gadget in the market. Take a look at the contest page for more information. By the way, I was one of the grand prize winners in the 2010 contest.
I would be at a loss if I don’t mention the 24/7 dedicated customer support from Name Cheap. Various options exist for you, as a Name Cheap customer, to access their support; twitter, Facebook, Phone, Email or live-Chat on their home page. And don’t be surprised if you get a few extra advice for free. Name Cheap support is renowned for going out-of-their-way in order to help their client…and non-clients too.
So, if you are looking for extremely cheap domain and hosting coupled with excellent efficiency, tonnes of freebies, excellent customer support and the most important of all… down-to-earth attitude (even from their CEO), then look no further than Name Cheap.
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Hello Nick,
Great article, I totally agree with you as I experienced quite the same story (i.e. discovered Namecheap by accident 2 years ago).
I still have some domains stalling at another registrar and the reason is that Namecheap don’t accept incoming transfer for .eu and .ws at this time, but I hope that this will be available soon.
I also followed the 2010 Trivia Contest and won a bunch of domains, but unfortunately not a grand prize. I hope to be better next year
Regards,
David.
Comment by David S. — January 6, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
congratulations for winning the GRAND PRIZE (IPAD) …i wish i could win that too …btw i also participated and won two domains
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Comment by sms — January 7, 2011 @ 5:08 am
They do offer good support but they do not offer phone support contrary to your article. I think they are the only ICANN Accredited registrar in the U.S. that does not have a phone number you can actually reach them at.
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Comment by Benjamin Kerensa — January 7, 2011 @ 5:27 am
I guess we started to get to know Namecheap through the same twitter trivia contest
If I have to write my own experience regarding Namecheap, I doubt there will be any differences with yours.
And of course, Namecheap rocks!
Comment by nichive — January 7, 2011 @ 4:39 pm
Namecheap is by far the best domain registrar I have ever been to. Their reseller program is quite nice as well.
Comment by jamtraxx — January 7, 2011 @ 11:52 pm
I started using Namecheap in 2005. For the most part, I have been happy with their service. They used to have some problems with their whoisguard service (the privacy wouldn’t kick in until after a couple of hours, leaving you info exposed and kinda defeating the whole point of using whoisguard), but those have been fixed.
So, I was a happy customer… Until today. I noticed they removed the old design and replaced it with a new one.
First of all, it’s not compatible with a lot of browsers. It doesn’t work with slightly older versions of FireFox, Lunascape, K-meleon,…
Second of all, by changing the layout and using a ridiculous font-size they totally killed the usability of a lot of pages.
About an hour ago I emailed my account manager at M***** (other registrar. I won’t post their name here, so I can’t be accused of promoting that another registrar) to ask him for a discount if I move all of my namecheap domains over tot hem.
By trying to fix something that wasn’t broken, Namecheap will loose a 500+ domain account.
Comment by Andy — January 8, 2011 @ 9:34 am
Namecheap.com really rocks. They are far better innovate marketer online than any other domain registrar company.
Comment by NeazMH — January 8, 2011 @ 4:53 pm
Hi Andy,
Its sad to hear that the new Namecheap design is not to your liking. You can still access the old site at http://classic.namecheap.com/ I will contact one of the Namecheap guys to talk personally to you. Could you please email me your contact details from the Contact page.
Comment by Nick Rodriquez — January 8, 2011 @ 7:31 pm
hi Nick,
Thanks for the link. It’s good to see I can still use the old interface. I just hope it’s a permanent solution.
I already opened a ticket with them (waiting for a reply).
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Thanks.
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Comment by Komodo Dragon — February 3, 2011 @ 9:36 pm
Sounds like I need to check them out and see what they have going on.
Comment by College Sports — February 4, 2011 @ 9:26 am
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I have tried their service and they are superb service.
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Comment by Dodge Neon SRT4 — February 7, 2011 @ 2:49 am
I’ll have to keep taking a closer look at them, I have domain names at another registrar and unless its gonna be free to transfer them, I am stuck with what I got lol. Looking at namecheap, for now its not free
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Comment by used tires — February 10, 2011 @ 10:31 am
Many congratulations for winning the prize. And I really like your idea to share your experience.
Comment by High Quality Chocolates — March 22, 2011 @ 6:08 pm
In all the forum i participate in, namecheap is always recommended, but now i just have to stay with my host until it expires, then i will be ready to give namecheap a try.
Comment by Moneyhomeblog — March 31, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
i use namecheap on one of my other sites and as long as u never need their customer service they’re ok. decent pricing and very little down time
Comment by max — May 10, 2011 @ 10:21 am
While everyone buys with GoDaddy and whatnot, I use NameCheap. I love their domain interface as well. Every other registrar is very cluttered.
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Comment by Andrew — June 1, 2011 @ 3:54 pm
I will check it out in case I need to change my web hosting. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Robby — June 3, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
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Comment by RakeshMedia — August 11, 2011 @ 6:24 pm
I am also using Namecheap for all my domains and websites. It is great. Godaddy and Bob die in hell…
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