haha i agree 1and1 is one of the worst companies i have ever dealt with. Took me about 7 months to get my domain transferred to godaddy. It was an old domain i bought a couple years back and forgot that i even had it. I forgot my password for my account and the email i used, they gave me some much problems and trouble to recover my password. Also they said i owed them $5 from a long time ago (i thought domain would automatically expire, but it doesn't), so the bastards sent me to collections, those bastards where rude as hell, charged me $27, $5 for 1and1 domain and $22 for collections agency. Then i tried recovering my password I faxed them multiple id, they kept losing everything i faxed, i had to fax it about 3 times before someone finally got it. Then they told me to wait 2 weeks, i waited and finally contacted them. They told me they have nothing on account and don't know anything about my situation, needless to say i had to go through about 20 people and 3 months to get my password back.
Finally when i got my password back, i decided i needed to transfer it to godaddy, oh man, this was another horror. Took 4 months to get my domain transferred, same thing. Kept losing my domain, most of the time no one knew wtf is going on, always where surprised when i asked about the status of my domain transfer. Agh, one of the worst companies, if not the worst.
NEVER GO WITH 1AND1, there is millions of horror stories online about them