I ended up moving to one of the many IYD resellers since the 8.88 price point was the cheapest at the time. Their interface is nice and easy to use and I also get free URL forwarding and email forwarding these days as well.
These days of course 8.88 doesn't really rate. I did a study recently of domain name registration prices for an article I was writing and they're not even in the top 10 any more.
As a general observation though, anyone selling at under $6.75 is doing so at a loss - and even more of a l
oss if they then have to provide any customer service to you. Take a good hard look at what you are signing up for and read the fine print. A prime example of this is a certain reseller offering domains for $5.95 each. They seldom respond to emails, have a marketing policy built around spam, and they make up for the loss on domain name sales by automatically signing you up for $40/mo worth of "value added" services per domain.
Ouch.