This is unfortunately not a great way to compare providers. After all, who are the people who will come to this site, and leave reviews? Mostly people who had

This is unfortunately not a great way to compare providers. After all, who are the people who will come to this site, and leave reviews? Mostly people who had a seriously negative experience, and are keen to fight back by smearing the provider. Perhaps obviously, larger providers will have more of these. People with normal experiences -- e.g., "it just works" -- will have no reason to find a review site and leave a review, so even though the larger providers will also have lots more of these, you won't see them. I'm not saying that GoDaddy etc. are wonderful; I left them a few years ago because I don't like the founder, but I never had a problem with the service; it just worked, and it was inexpensive. A more valuable way to compare (if a representative survey isn't practical) would be to show a walk-through of the various common actions to take at a registrar -- and rate those for usability, price, etc.. I'd be interested to see how registrars vary not just for initial registration price, but also renewal price; for how difficult it is to transfer a domain to another registrar; etc..