I sat with Network Solutions since the beginning until I realized how over-priced and sucky they are. It's like you pay the fee every few years and don't think about it again. Then something happened that had me looking for a new registrar, yeah took that long.
When I started looking around I found that domain squatting is a thing. There's people that register even thousands of names. I imagine that could have been a way to fortune some years ago, but now, doesn't seem like a very good business plan.
BTW, I settled on porkbun.com, really like them, night and day difference. Registrars have come a long way over the years. I remember waiting days for full propagation before, with them it was like instant, don't know how they pull that off.