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So as a domain owner you are completely at the mercy of your registrar? What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe?

by TekMol 8y ago

kevingrahl 8y ago
For private or business use? Privately I’m pretty happy with Namecheap, they never failed to provide the support I needed in a friendly and precise manner. For business purposes with high value domains MarkMonitor seems to be the industry leader.
- TekMol 8y ago
  Both seem to be US companies. What levarage do you have over them if they screw you? I would say none. Suing a company overseas is pretty much impossible.
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    Ah I see, beg your pardon, I misunderstood your question. If you’re looking for domain registrars located in Europe I can only suggest one as I don’t have much experience dealing with others. Epag [1] has always been nice to deal with. [1] - https://www.epag.de/en/ https://www.epag.de/en/
- kweks 8y ago
  I love namecheap - customer for over 10 years - but a recent incident has me rethinking my patronage. We recently received a "lawyer DDOS" - where a law firm sent multiple letters claiming /alleged/ trademark infringement. Without proof of identity, proof of subpoena, judge's order - whatever - namecheap rolled over on their WHOIS protection. There was no dialog, no email from legal, nothing. I was dismayed to see that someone can literally send one email, get your personal info, and impact your company. Very disappointed in namecheap.
  - automated_toast 8y ago
    I am also on namecheap and this freaks me out. can you provide more info?
    - ethanwillis 8y ago
      Read some of my comments, they did the same to me.
    - highclass 8y ago
      Read my comments too. Namecheap definitely is just as bad.
  - ethanwillis 8y ago
    EXACTLY what happened to me just a few months ago. Looks like they do this to everyone... Maybe we should all get together because individually there's not much that can be done legally. Edit: by exactly, I mean they got a subpoena for someone else, didn't respond to it correctly.. and just dumped all of my information to a bunch of third parties.
krn 8y ago
> What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe? I heard a lot of good things about German INWX[1], even though French Gandi[2] is more popular and is the registrar of ycombinator.com (and was the registrar of reddit.com until recently, before they moved to MarkMonitor). [1] https://www.inwx.de/en https://www.inwx.de/en [2] https://www.gandi.net/en https://www.gandi.net/en
- TimWolla 8y ago
  I can highly recommend INWX. What I like about them is that the service they provide is domains only (I don't consider their web hosting offers [1] seriously). Thus no conflict of interest and resources are focused on a good domain service. [1] https://www.inwx.de/en/hosting https://www.inwx.de/en/hosting

So as a domain owner you are completely at the mercy of your registrar? What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe?

by TekMol 8y ago

So as a domain owner you are completely at the mercy of your registrar? What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe?

kevingrahl 8y ago

For private or business use? Privately I’m pretty happy with Namecheap, they never failed to provide the support I needed in a friendly and precise manner. For business purposes with high value domains MarkMonitor seems to be the industry leader.

TekMol 8y ago
Both seem to be US companies. What levarage do you have over them if they screw you? I would say none. Suing a company overseas is pretty much impossible.
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  Ah I see, beg your pardon, I misunderstood your question. If you’re looking for domain registrars located in Europe I can only suggest one as I don’t have much experience dealing with others. Epag [1] has always been nice to deal with. [1] - https://www.epag.de/en/ https://www.epag.de/en/
kweks 8y ago
I love namecheap - customer for over 10 years - but a recent incident has me rethinking my patronage. We recently received a "lawyer DDOS" - where a law firm sent multiple letters claiming /alleged/ trademark infringement. Without proof of identity, proof of subpoena, judge's order - whatever - namecheap rolled over on their WHOIS protection. There was no dialog, no email from legal, nothing. I was dismayed to see that someone can literally send one email, get your personal info, and impact your company. Very disappointed in namecheap.
- automated_toast 8y ago
  I am also on namecheap and this freaks me out. can you provide more info?
  - ethanwillis 8y ago
    Read some of my comments, they did the same to me.
  - highclass 8y ago
    Read my comments too. Namecheap definitely is just as bad.
- ethanwillis 8y ago
  EXACTLY what happened to me just a few months ago. Looks like they do this to everyone... Maybe we should all get together because individually there's not much that can be done legally. Edit: by exactly, I mean they got a subpoena for someone else, didn't respond to it correctly.. and just dumped all of my information to a bunch of third parties.

krn 8y ago

> What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe? I heard a lot of good things about German INWX[1], even though French Gandi[2] is more popular and is the registrar of ycombinator.com (and was the registrar of reddit.com until recently, before they moved to MarkMonitor). [1] https://www.inwx.de/en https://www.inwx.de/en [2] https://www.gandi.net/en https://www.gandi.net/en

TimWolla 8y ago
I can highly recommend INWX. What I like about them is that the service they provide is domains only (I don't consider their web hosting offers [1] seriously). Thus no conflict of interest and resources are focused on a good domain service. [1] https://www.inwx.de/en/hosting https://www.inwx.de/en/hosting