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I recently talked to a potential client about a major project that started out as an internal discussion about how to get off GoDaddy. I think there were GoDaddy whois results showing up in Google that they thought presented them in a bad light.


How does a whois record matter to a company? Do customers look that up? And why would NameCheap being the vendor matter at all? Is something like Lycos better?


Right. It's hard to imagine anyone clueful enough to do a whois who wasn't also aware that the registrar is a commodity service.


I can't imagine "NameCheap" giving a better impression. Network Solution is usually the go to registrar for my client who want a "premium" provider.


The registrar for a NameCheap domain will show up as eNom, which is reasonably reputable. NameCheap is a budget reseller for eNom.




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