Some domain registrars are better than others. The one you registered your domain with two years ago might have turned into a monster by now. Perhaps their fees have gone up, or have failed to come down in line with everyone else's. Perhaps everything was fine until you needed help with something, and found that you have to pay a ridiculous fee for telephone support, or that you end up waiting in a queue for half an hour. Worse still, there might be no telephone support at all, and your emails don’t get answered for three days.

If this sounds familiar, it's time to change domain registrar. There are other reasons to switch as well: you might want to be able to administrate all of your Domain Names from one account. Switching registrars is not difficult, and a couple of registrars, including DomainMonster.com, don't charge you anything extra to transfer your domain into, out of, or between their accounts.

By Natalie Catchpole