I purchased a domain name through 1&1, but decided to have GoDaddy host the site.

1&1 customer service was pretty good, I was on hold for probably 2 minutes before they came to the rescue. While GoDaddy, the quickest I ever gotten answered was 7 minutes later, and when you're frustrated, that could feel like a loooong time :-) maybe I called at their busiest time.

But other than that, GoDaddy is pretty reasonable price-wise (reason why I chose to host w/ them instead of 1&1) and I saw some pretty nice site created by their easy site builder (Website Tonight).

Hope that helps.

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