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This is terrible. Anyone have any suggestions for a registrar to switch to from GoDaddy?

eli 16y ago
I've been happy with Namecheap and I believe they're running a promotion specifically for people switching from godaddy.
dchest 16y ago
See: - Namecheap promotion [HN discussion] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764 - Ask YC: Who's your favorite domain registrar and why? [2008] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561
acangiano 16y ago
NameCheap.
danieldk 16y ago
I have been with Gandi for years. They are a bit more expensive than some other other registrars, but offer good service, and donate proceeds to non-profit projects: http://en.gandi.net/supports/ http://en.gandi.net/supports/
- elliottcarlson 16y ago
  Not to mention they have excellent support for domains with different tld's and offer an SSL certificate free for one year with each domain.
X-Istence 16y ago
I recently moved to name.com. I absolutely love their minimalistic interface, and I like supporting local business (Denver)... So far no issues what so ever other than with GoDaddy and moving domains over because of issues with whois, but once there everything is fast, and simple. Unlike GoDaddy's interface.
- hayley 16y ago
  I'm a former customer of name.com. I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS. Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydomain.com to one of their ad-ridden pages. I can kind of see an argument for having that when a domain has just been purchased and there is no valid content yet. But doing that to an established site makes ME look like a spammer. tl;dr - if you're using name.com's DNS, you might want to see if they're hosting spam pages on whatever.yourdomain.com
  - calloc 16y ago
    I do my own DNS hosting, I've never used a registrars DNS services, I've never found them to be reliable enough, nor do they meet my needs in terms of being able to update records quickly or in programmatic way (such as hosting my own DynDNS like service, keeping a record updated for my home IP address).
dreww 16y ago
DNSimple (dnsimple.com) is great, also offering a promotion and 'escape hatch' from godaddy.

eli 16y ago

I've been happy with Namecheap and I believe they're running a promotion specifically for people switching from godaddy.

dchest 16y ago

See: - Namecheap promotion [HN discussion] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390764 - Ask YC: Who's your favorite domain registrar and why? [2008] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561

acangiano 16y ago

NameCheap.

danieldk 16y ago

I have been with Gandi for years. They are a bit more expensive than some other other registrars, but offer good service, and donate proceeds to non-profit projects: http://en.gandi.net/supports/ http://en.gandi.net/supports/

elliottcarlson 16y ago
Not to mention they have excellent support for domains with different tld's and offer an SSL certificate free for one year with each domain.

X-Istence 16y ago

I recently moved to name.com. I absolutely love their minimalistic interface, and I like supporting local business (Denver)... So far no issues what so ever other than with GoDaddy and moving domains over because of issues with whois, but once there everything is fast, and simple. Unlike GoDaddy's interface.

hayley 16y ago
I'm a former customer of name.com. I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS. Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydomain.com to one of their ad-ridden pages. I can kind of see an argument for having that when a domain has just been purchased and there is no valid content yet. But doing that to an established site makes ME look like a spammer. tl;dr - if you're using name.com's DNS, you might want to see if they're hosting spam pages on whatever.yourdomain.com
- calloc 16y ago
  I do my own DNS hosting, I've never used a registrars DNS services, I've never found them to be reliable enough, nor do they meet my needs in terms of being able to update records quickly or in programmatic way (such as hosting my own DynDNS like service, keeping a record updated for my home IP address).

dreww 16y ago

DNSimple (dnsimple.com) is great, also offering a promotion and 'escape hatch' from godaddy.