Two best Domain Registrars in India - Godaddy vs Bigrock

What is domain Name (aka TLD-Top level domain)?

It’s a name to your online presence in the vast online world in simple words. As you have your name for identification, similarly domain is the identity of your blog or website. I won’t go into much detail on definition of domain, but if you are curious, read on Wikipedia

It is not mandatory to have a personal domain to start your blog or website. You can start on a free subdomain like 'yoursitename.blogspot.com' or ‘yoursitename.wordpress.com’ but there are certain benefits of having a personalized domain name. Few of them are…

1.       It gives a more professional name to your website/blog.

2.       It increases trust among the readers.

3.       If you want to move your blog from free service to your own hosting, it is possible without loosing the traffic and readers.

4.       It’s good for SEO (search engine optimization).

Domains are available in various extensions called as generic (gTLD) like .com, .net, .org etc and country code (specific) TLDs (ccTLD) like .in, .us, .uk etc.
Domains can be purchased at a nominal charge of Rs. 500 - Rs. 1500 per year depending on the extension. Domains are registered at Registrars.
All domains are controlled by a organization called ICANN and we recommend you to register domain with some ICANN verified registrar.

Now let’s compare two best domain registrars. Specially for Indian webmasters.

(Green highlighted column refers to better among the two) 

	Godaddy	Bigrock
ICANN Accredited	Yes	Yes
Cost	Starting from <Rs. 500	Starting from <Rs. 500
Private Registrtion	Extra charge for Privacy	Free Private registration
DNS Manager	Free upto 100 zone records	Free upto 500 zone records
Domain Forwarding	Yes	Yes
Subdomain Forwarding	Advanced	Basic
Free webpage	Free one page website	No
Free email accounts	1 email account (1GB) + 100 free email forward accounts	2 email accounts (100mb each) + 10 forward accounts.
	Free Email Features
Inbox size	1 GB - 1 account	2 accounts of 100 mb each
IMAP Support	No	Yes
Push enabled	Not applicable	Yes
Daily email quota	No fixed quota via webmail	100 emails per account
Free SMTP relays	250 per day	Not available
Webmail client	Good	Good
Customer Service	Good	Awesome
	Customer service Features
India based	Yes	Yes
Methods	Email and phone	Email, phone, twitter & facebook.
Toll free number	Yes	Yes
24*7 support	Yes	Yes
Email response delay	Long	Prompt reply.
Solution to problem	Fast	Faster
Payment modes	Credit/debit cards, Netbanking, Good as Gold service of Godaddy, Paypal and Alipay	Credit/debit Card, Net banking, Bigrock fund, direct NEFT transfer, Cash on Delivery (unique feature), Paypal, Check and draft.
Offers	A lot of offers every day	Limited offers.

Now its your turn to decide with which registrar you wanna go.

Post your comments and tell us what you think of these two registrars. Share your experience. Also let us know if we have missed any point so that we will add here.