Ask HN: How to bulk transfer ~50 domains? (+ Registrar suggestions?)

So, I've been using GoDaddy without incident for about 6 or 7 years. About 2 months ago, my credit card was compromised, so I got a new CC number. I immediately updated all of domains at GoDaddy to use the new number (about 50 of them).

Today, I get an email from them saying that three of my domains have been canceled and I have to pay a redemption fee to get them back. I email support with a, "Uh, wtf guys?" and they say my CC was declined when they tried to auto-renew (wtf? their crappy backend told me that change that gone through!) and that I had a grace period but didn't renew -- I save all my emails and never got one from them about these domains (I get a ton of email from these guys, but often have noticed that it's sort of random -- some domains will generate an email when they auto-renew, some won't ... but whatever, it had never been a problem before).

So now I can't afford to stay with GoDaddy and risk losing a more important domain (like, railsforum.com), so I need to transfer to a more reliable registrar.

Two questions: 1. Any suggestions for registrars with competitive pricing, good support, and that don't suck? and 2. Bonus points if it is easy to transfer ~50 domains. It'll be a pain in the butt do have to do these each individually.

I have considered just opening a reseller account via Tucows OpenSRS and selling domains to myself. Seems like that is what Facebook does... anyone have any experience doing that?

Thanks!

His complaint is with the company and he wishes to move to a new one.

i've heard good things about 1and1 as well, although i admittedly use godaddy because i only own a few names.

Well, the reason is I just no longer trust their software. Only getting email updates about auto-renewals for some, but not all of my domains was never a big deal, but another apparent mistake (their software not updating my CC across all my domains -- some have auto-renewed without incident on the new card since I made the change, but it appears not all were updated when I used their bulk account info change tool) has sort of made it a big deal.

So I just don't trust their software anymore, and want to find a new registrar.

1and1's entire interface is an unholy pain in the ass. I'm quite fond of DynaDot, actually, and switched to them as registrar of choice, transferring about 50 domains to them from assorted others and haven't had any problems.