[deanhills]

1and1 requires 2 year purchase at the time of checkout, we can see the offer is to trick visitors. They actually selling the domain at 15.98$/ 2 year. Even we consider the average it is 7.99$/year. They just fooling the buyers.

Agreed.  I've heard the odd good feedback, but also members at other Forums who have had bad experiences with 1and1.  Once there's a problem, it is difficult to get out of it as support isn't that good. Backup for transferring domains out of 1and1 can also provide problems. Always good when one plans to keep one's domains for a long while to use a domain registrar with a good reputation such as namecheap or name silo.

For example, I went with another unfamiliar domain registrar, domain electronic, four years ago. The price was very low to begin with, something like 5 US$, it then went up to normal average for a dot.net - like 12 US$ - I was OK with that. But then last year the reseller completely disappeared and I then had to contact the main registrar to get access - the turnaround to my inquiry took probably two months. At the time I made my inquiry luckily it was to change the name servers - if it had been to renew the domains I'd have lost them. I now only have limited access to those two domains where I'm only able to renew the domains and change the name servers. When I try to transfer them, I'm not allowed to do that. I guess I could write to the top domain registrar but that's a big pain to do. Guess that teaches me not to go only for cheap price, but for long term quality support as well - hence why Namecheap works for me. It's slightly more expensive than the cheapest, but it's more consistent in not having big increases in the domains and service and support are more than good - it's excellent.