It is hard to believe the author because he uses a referral id in his link to Namecheap without a disclosure:
"www.namecheap.com/?aid=88&rid=136544"
Having saying that, I don't know if Namecheap is better or worse than Godaddy.
Having saying that, I don't know if Namecheap is better or worse than Godaddy.
If you can point out namecheap doing something like this: http://nodaddy.com/mystory.html, then I'd agree with your second point.