http://www.wolf-howl.com/reviews/1an...-hosting-sucks
Read the comments. Lot's of people with bad experiences. I'm in the middle of transferring a domain from 1and1 to another registrar and it looks like 1&1 is resisting, even though their site let me initiate a transfer of the domain with little resistance. They now say that they are waiting for the other registrar to request the transfer, and the other registrar says that it sent the request 4 days ago. I've transfer several other domains to this registrar with no issues so I'm betting 1&1 is the problem.