Yeah, those haven't been around since '88.

Costs a lot to keep a hat purty white. You can't just throw it in the laundry.

I first heard about them a year ago from a buddy when I was looking to move from register.com. I stayed with Register one more year, but a couple of weeks ago it was time to renew again and I asked my buddy if he still liked Namecheap. If anything, he loved them even more than he did before, so I jumped.

I don't have a ton of experience with registrars, this being only my third since 1998 (grin), but they seem fine to me so far.

Yeah, they do DNS for you if you want them to, and they even support Dynamic DNS, which was a bonus for me. (I hear name.com also supports it)
The sucky part's gonna be re-entering all that zone info for all 152 domains. Make sure you copy all your info off the old DNS servers first, so it goes faster.
(I just switched to NameCheap last week, myself)

Yeah, I remember how bad it was just months ago. I put my mom on a Samsung Captivate, but after playing with the interface (which seemed somewhat vanilla-y) I ended up going with HTC. (I felt bad about it when she asked why I didn't get the same phone) I think they're all getting better (3.5 Sense feels much better than 2.x Sense, btw) now, but like I said, you can get ROMs that don't have them at all.

The biggest concern is to not get any phone with a locked bootloader unless you already know the community has a working way around it. As you don't have to worry about that with your phone, you're ahead of the game :)

Some of us do like these UIs. I happen to like Sense, and that's why I bought my Inspire 4G (aka Desire HD).
It's running a ROM (RCMix3D Runny 4.0) that is Android 2.3.5 (which is later than official for my phone) and retains Sense 3.5 (which is also later than official).
I could have easily picked a ROM without Sense as well, like MIUI or Cm7, etc.
And yeah, there's people working to port ICS to the Desire HD line, too. Haven't decided if I want it, yet. :)

"You cannot go against nature, for if you do
go against nature, that's part of nature too!"

Timothy's one of the few editors left from the old days; don't scare him off.

Think about it: are there any CNet properties you can't do without, that do things no other sources can? (Can you even name any CNet properties besides cnet.com and download.com? Without looking, I can't)

They need us a lot more than we need them. But they certainly don't seem to respect that, or us, if they want to sneak this software into the homes of our less-wary family members, friends, and coworkers. (And they do have to sneak it, because very few people would willingly seek out some of this stuff to further clutter their computers and potentially track their surfing habits, etc.)

Let them know you won't stand for it -- tweet them, tell them on Facebook or G+ and so on. And remind them that they're so poorly differentiated from other publishers right now that you might have a hard time being convinced to bother switching back, the longer they take to cut stuff like this out.