Today, I get an email from them saying that three of my domains have been canceled and I have to pay a redemption fee to get them back. I email support with a, "Uh, wtf guys?" and they say my CC was declined when they tried to auto-renew (wtf? their crappy backend told me that change that gone through!) and that I had a grace period but didn't renew -- I save all my emails and never got one from them about these domains (I get a ton of email from these guys, but often have noticed that it's sort of random -- some domains will generate an email when they auto-renew, some won't ... but whatever, it had never been a problem before).

So now I can't afford to stay with GoDaddy and risk losing a more important domain (like, railsforum.com), so I need to transfer to a more reliable registrar.

Two questions: 1. Any suggestions for registrars with competitive pricing, good support, and that don't suck? and 2. Bonus points if it is easy to transfer ~50 domains. It'll be a pain in the butt do have to do these each individually.

I have considered just opening a reseller account via Tucows OpenSRS and selling domains to myself. Seems like that is what Facebook does... anyone have any experience doing that?

Thanks!