davezan - 4:18 am on Dec 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

These are just my personal observations:

1. Those who charge high (like $35/year for .com) offer 24/7 toll-free phone support. I hardly see chose charging $7-$10 a year doing the same.

2. I've seen a few who charge $7-$10 yet offer toll-free phone support for biz hours only. I only know 2, however, that does whatever domain changes you want to do, while I've yet to know how others' domain management tools do.

3. Those who charge a lot are able to pay their in-house support people to handle more potentially complex issues.

All in all, why registrar A charges high and registrar B charges low yet both offer more or less the same things along with domain names come down to one common thing: their respective business models.

But then, many people really don't care about anything else except to get the results they want based on what they're willing to pay.