Many years ago, I didn’t know the PayPal and didn’t have Credit Card, so I had to register domains at some Chinese Registrars, as Hi CHina & 35.com via Alipay, the easy and popalar payment in China. Then I found registrars in China are too BAD, so I moved to Godaddy and Name.com.

Why Chinese Registrars are BAD?

1. Expensive. The .com/.net domain name cost about 20$ at most Chinese Domain Registrar while less than 11$/9$ at Godady or Name.com.
2. Hard to transfer away from Chinese Domain Registrar. Users should send a paper table with their copied ID card. It may takes one month to transfer out.
3. Not safe. As China is not a country rule by law, Chinese Domain Registrar may stop your DNS setting without any warning becouse of goverment order. So the domain is not really controlled by you, even the domain is not yours.

Where do I register and keep my domain now? Godaddy & Name.com. Why?

1. Famous & reliable.
2. Cheaper. Free whois privacy.
3. Powerful panel.

How to register / renew domains cheaper?

1. Different TLDs at different Registrar.
2. Register or renew with promotion code.
3. Transfer between different Registrar.
4. Some hosting privide free domain.