""" I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?""" I hope this list

""" I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?""" I hope this list is complete: 1) Cheap beats a lot of things. 2) They give you minimal trouble if you only use their registration services (I hear that their other offerings are terrible). 3) Popular and well known also attracts people -- "I need a domain name, hmm, this company sounds familiar, and almost everyone else is using it". 4) Domain registration is not something you're going to thoroughly evaluate. It's a 5 min process that doesn't cost that much anyway. 5) A hacker guy feels "clever" when he can navigate through all their extra offerings, specials, trap checkboxes etc and just order what he needs, like he somehow "beat the system". 6) Popular and hugely successful means they are going to stick around. People have been burned by web hosting/registrars/similar services that closed business after a while.