Please check it out and contribute, if you have any experience with domain registrations!
People with normal experiences -- e.g., "it just works" -- will have no reason to find a review site and leave a review, so even though the larger providers will also have lots more of these, you won't see them.
I'm not saying that GoDaddy etc. are wonderful; I left them a few years ago because I don't like the founder, but I never had a problem with the service; it just worked, and it was inexpensive.
A more valuable way to compare (if a representative survey isn't practical) would be to show a walk-through of the various common actions to take at a registrar -- and rate those for usability, price, etc.. I'd be interested to see how registrars vary not just for initial registration price, but also renewal price; for how difficult it is to transfer a domain to another registrar; etc..
I started the review section as a counter point to the main page, which is purely about comparing prices. For the points in your last paragraph, I fully intend to blog about them where possible. For the time being, I hope that at least some people would share some of those experiences in the review description!
I think that even having a place for people to complain is useful. If your company is doing a fantastic job, outside of extreme cases, there will be very little complaints. Yes, there may be negative bias, but negative bias will also more heavily manifest the worse the company (generally, don't quote me on that, it's not a theorem or anything)
somewhat in contrast to what has posted -- I actually went to the site and wanted to leave a review for gandhi -- they're actually a great provider, and working with them has been great, and been a breeze. Was glad to see they have 5/5, it's well-deserved.
Left a review, wish you would add an anonymous option
I'm so happy to see other people adding reviews to figure out the best tools/services/software to use. Hit me up if I can help out in any way. :)
Unique, new, or innovative? No
Better than current solutions for finding reviews on domain registrars? No
A simple attempt to earn affiliate commissions with a review site? Yes -- this concept has been around forever in the affiliate world.
Not sure why this link is on hacker news...
My personal advice would be to spend your personal time on something actually productive.
Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.
Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.
Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives.
When someone is learning, help them learn more.
When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is.
But don't be gratuitously negative.