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NearlyFreeSpeech is, IMO, the only registrar worth using. It is simple, and the site is clean to a fault. There is zero advertising or service upselling - each
by Legion 16y ago
NearlyFreeSpeech is, IMO, the only registrar worth using.
It is simple, and the site is clean to a fault. There is zero advertising or service upselling - each page contains what it needs to and nothing else.
They're not the place to go to get cute with your TLDs, but for the standard TLDs, I refuse to go anywhere else. Even well-liked registrars like NameCheap are a big pile of spam in comparison.
- rms 16y agoThey're $8.99/year now? I can't believe I am still using namecheap. I watched NearlyFreeSpeech go to bat for a friend that was being sued over a trademark dispute. Even though he was prevented from using the domain commercially in a court of law, NearlyFreeSpeech still registers it for him and lets him have a blank page. The people suing him were pissed off.
- russell_h 16y agoWhile the domain costs $8.99/year, you have to "deposit" money to your account that the cost is subtracted from, and if you do it with a credit card there is a small fee associated. I think you can deposit $10.00, from which they take $1.00, then they give you a $0.25 "rebate", leaving you with $0.26 in your account once you've paid for the domain. It varies depending on how much you deposit, but in general I just think of it as more like $10.00/year for a domain. That being said, I'd pay a lot more than that just for their clean (although slightly dated looking) interface. I'll be switching the rest of my domains to them in another month or so.
- nikcub 16y agoThat all sounds very complicated what ever happen to paying for things
- philh 16y agonearlyfreespeech is primarily a hosting service, with the distinction that you only pay for the storage and bandwidth that you actually use. So the way they bill you is, you put say $20 into your account with them and they'll deduct small amounts at a time from that. I guess most people using their registrar service also use them as a host, so it makes sense to pay for it in the same way.
- showsover 16y agoI'm quite content with versio.nl (sadly only for dutch-speaking folk). It costs me around 8~9€ for a .com domain for a year, and around 15€ for a year of hosting (1.5G space, 20G bandwidth, 25 subdomains, etc). /notanemployee
- ewams 16y agoDoes their DNS do MX records? It only mentions A, AAAA, and SRV.
- shii 16y agoI'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I was able to quickly and painlessly update my MX records for all the domains I have with them to my Google Apps setup. I recently noticed that Google Apps even setup a custom how-to page for NFSN users: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=54719 http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=54719
- _delirium 16y agoTheir control panel lets you add: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SRV, TXT, and PTR
- larrys 16y agoThey aren't a registrar. They are a reseller for a registrar located in India. Don't confuse resellers with registrars.
- bodhi 16y agoLast time I checked, about a year or so ago, they weren't very keen on people using them only as a registrar. Not "you'll get your account terminated", just a "please don't do this if you don't have to". That said, I've got a domain (or two?) registered there. Yes, I do feel guilty about it!
- soult 16y agoYou are probably referring to this[1] FAQ entry. As I understand it they provide domain registration on a cost-recovery basis and thus have no incentive to answer support requests for customers who only use NFSN for domain registration. I wouldn't conclude that this means "please don't do this if you don't have to". When you use NFSN for domain registration, you will probably also pay for whois privacy ($3.65/year) and DNS services. DNS services for domains registered with NFSN are $1.22/year, but if you host the website for that domain at NFSN you will only pay $0.41/year. So they do actually earn money on domain-only customers and they also give you an incentive to use them not just for domain registration. 1: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#gp_domains https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#gp_domains
- xyzzyb 16y agoHow about hover.com? Simply fantastic documentation and support. The phone number, should you call it, even connects to a real person.