Tell HN: Avoid Fasthosts for registering domains

Such a shame, once a great company, taken over recently by the notorious 1&1 who have a long history of making clients suffer extremely poor support, also make it incredibly hard to cancel services (you actually have to log into a separate login panel to cancel services).

Well, thinking of registering a domain with Fasthosts? Think again, they will lock down the domain so you cannot transfer it out to another registrar for 60 days, this is on all domains including .uk where there is no requirement or reason for this?

It gets worse : phone support promises resolutions manually which never happen, emails unresponded to for days.

It's a major shame as Fasthosts used to be one of the best UK registrars but since the changeover they have turned into just another registrar to avoid. Up there now with 1&1...