second that, been using them for the better part of decade, never any problems.

Me too. No issues after many years of namecheap.

Just to throw in a slightly differing opinion: I've been with Namecheap more than five years, and overall I've been very satisfied with them. However, I have had a couple of minor issues. Most recently, when making a minor change their support messed up something with my domain. They were slow to respond to my request that they fix it, and seemed far too confused about what was going on. The domain in question wasn't important to me, but if it had been I'd have been pretty pissed.

Another vote for NameCheap. Have had ~50 domains with them for nearly 5 years now, never a problem.

+1 for NameCheap.

(Not to beat a dead horse, but back when we could see the karma numbers for comments, it was possible to visibly "second" an endorsement comment by upvoting it, instead of posting separate +1 comments like this one ...)

Another vote for NameCheap. And to make this comment more useful...

I especially love how easy it is to transfer domain names between NameCheap users. I had purchased a domain name once with my personal account. Then I created a company and wanted the domain to be officially owned by that entity and not me. So I created another NameCheap account for that company, then transferred it over very easily.

Of course, it's possible other registrars offer such a frictionless transfer process between account holders too. I've only used NameCheap for this and can say I was pleased with the results.

+1 for namecheap

Also loving namecheap thought it sucks that they don't support all extensions, for example I have sampl.es which I cannot transfer from GoDaddy

Same here, although I've only been a customer for two years. Never had any problems with their website either, always fast and responsive.