Hopefully I clicked all the right buttons and links… but it seems that my domain transfers are in progress. All should be approved, accepted, and now it’s just the wait period for the actual transfer to occur.
Hopefully all will go smoothly and without hiccups or service interruptions.
Stuff From Hsoi 
I have been thinking of switching as well. Where did you decide to go to?
Just about all my hosting (save this blog, which is presently at wordpress.com) has been done with machighway.com. I’ve used them for many many years (maybe over a decade now that I think about it) and am quite a happy customer.
They have registrar services, tho I think ultimately through someone else (don’t know the exact setup). But I just went with them because it was the easiest thing for me to do. Centralize everything to minimize my hassle, plus a little discount. The prospect of shopping around for a new registrar made me groan (hence part of the inertia), so when I saw MacHighway had services well… given the years of service and how happy I am? I just opted to keep with what I know makes me happy. 🙂
You don’t need to host with them to register through them.