This is much more difficult than switching registrars. Where I live, there is a duopoly for broadband internet; Verizon and Comcast. And Comcast is by far faste

This is much more difficult than switching registrars. Where I live, there is a duopoly for broadband internet; Verizon and Comcast. And Comcast is by far faster and provides more reliable service; Verizon FiOS is supposed to be reasonably fast, but for some reason, they only offer it in the suburbs, not in the city. If there were an alternative that were even remotely competitive, I would go with it. As it stands, Comcast is the only game in town unless I want to dramatically cut my connection speed for only a modest reduction in price. edit: Actually, I just checked. Even Verizon DSL is not available to me. I guess I live in a monopoly market. I've tried checking if RCN is available, but their system always chokes on my address (the street name has "Saint" in it, which is often abbreviated to "St" in databases, which confuses some address matching algorithms for obvious reasons).