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Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a compa
by aerovistae 6y ago
Recommendations for superior alternatives? I'm an indifferent GoDaddy user but would be happy to switch to something else since I've never liked them as a company.
- daneel_w 6y agoI have used https://joker.com/ https://joker.com/ for 20 years, and have yet to find a single thing to complain about.
- aviraldg 6y agoNameCheap (which I use) and Gandi are common recommendations on HN AFAIK.
- notyourwork 6y agoI've had great experience with Gandi over the last 10 years.
- Hoasi 6y agoGandi is fine. Their domains are slightly more expensive than others.
- 91edec 6y agoNamecheap
- Shared404 6y agoI like Porkbun personally.
- antihero 6y agoCloudFlare (yes they are a registrar now) or Gandi are my go-tos! Never had an issue. GoDaddy are just bad in every conceivable way.
- donarb 6y agoWow, I didn't know CF did registrations (makes sense though). And looking at their rates shows they don't markup prices. For example, most places charge $12 for a .com address. CloudFlare charges $8.03, which is their cost, they add nothing.
- antihero 6y agoYep, can't wait 'till they support .cc and whatnot.
- drummer 6y agoThe same cloudflare whose ceo decided to deplatform a client not too long ago?
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- bhartzer 6y agoEpik, Namecheap, Fabulous for domains.
- OzMikeRobertson 6y agoThanks for the support and being such a loyal customer bhartzer. Always good to hear from you. For those that don't know me, I work for Fabulous.com. I can confirm Fabulous has never and will never engage in activities as described by the OP. If anyone has any questions, needs assistance with anything relating to Fabulous, feel free to reach out. My email is mike@fabulous.com.
- ted0 6y agoHey Mike! Hope you're well.
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoI love http://domains.Google http://domains.Google You get free email forwarding (even wildcard), free domain privacy, free website forwarding (with ssl), Google infrastructure behind all of that and the authoritative DNS they offer. Cloudflare also offers a registrar service and its good.
- bitdotdash 6y agoDoes Cloudflare still require you to transfer in or can you actually buy domains from them directly now? The buy and then wait 90 days to transfer in thing is a hassle.
- tuananh 6y agoyou can buy now but the tld is limited
- ourcat 6y agoInteresting. I'd never considered Google for my domains. Any idea if the '£10/year' is every year? Or does it go up after the first year? Also, I found it weird that they promote a .app and .dev TLD as 'More Secure'.
- mattl 6y agoI think all domains under `dev` have HSTS turned on.
- ascorbic 6y agoThey call them more secure because the whole TLD is on the HSTS preload list, so no downgrade attacks.
- colejohnson66 6y agoWhich means that an SSL certificate is required
- colejohnson66 6y ago
- shafyy 6y agoDNSimple is great for domain names.
- adityapatadia 6y agoWe use AWS Route 53 for domain registration. Works like a charm.
- nucleardog 6y agoCan also recommend them. No race-to-the-bottom scammy upsell shit since... it's basically just there as a value-add on AWS. And you're piggy-backing on all the infrastructure/support/etc that people expect from AWS instead of a domain registrar where people are generally shopping pretty exclusively on price. And you can expect that they're not going to turn _into_ a scammy registar at any point since, well, it's AWS.
- tnr23 6y agoThey use Gandi under the hood. Using Gandi directly is a much better experience
- dublin 6y agoIf your servers are in AWS, then Route53 is a no-brainer - it lets you do things no other DNS host can do, and it's infinitely better plumbed into the AWS ecosystem (CloudFormation automation, etc.)
- miguelmota 6y agoI second Route 53 for domains. It’s straight to the point and clear cut unlike other registrars that try to upsell gimmicky features at every step.
- andawg 6y agoI use ipage for domains and hosting and never had a problem with it. I am looking at my past bill and I paid $96 for a year of hosting. I don't use it for much, just static HTML. I use ftp to push changes. Dead simple. Looking their site they have an intro deal going now to host for a year for $2/month
- pwdisswordfish4 6y ago$96 for static hosting is a crap deal.
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- Shorel 6y agoBasically everyone else is a superior alternative. I use gandi.net because every domain includes email hosting. And France privacy laws.
- axaxs 6y agoSame, but different reasons. I just like seeing 'No Bullshit' on their site, since that's basically what I'm thinking when looking for such services.
- IncRnd 6y agoI just checked-out gandi.net, and I found their page in defense of No Bullshit. What a nice page to see amidst the many other sites filled with Bullshit. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit "No Bullshit is our philosophy" "Above all, "no bullshit" is our golden rule—to treat our users how we want to be treated. It's a promise to respect your rights and to level with you about our shortcomings."
- ddingus 6y agoThat slogan has probably done them more good business than they know. Same. I like to see it myself and look for it each time I visit. I consider it a canary. When that go÷s away, time to evaluate things again.
- narwally 6y agoNo spam either. Their UI is also really transparent. You can even edit all of your DNS records as a single plain text file.
- D13Fd 6y agoI migrated everything to Namecheap a couple of years ago, they have been great. I’m happy not to be giving money to GoDaddy any longer.
- rileytg 6y agodnsimple has been a fantastic provider for me for at least 5 years. it’s just... simple.
- vgb2k18 6y agoDynadot.com, they've been around a long time, for me it's been the provider I always come back to.
- Lammy 6y agoBig fan of NearlyFreeSpeech.net and use them for any TLD they support, unfortunately not including some of the newer more esoteric ones like ".cool", but I'm sure that's probably in the works. I moved over from GoDaddy after GoDaddy pulled down seclists.org for Myspace with no due process: https://mashable.com/2007/01/25/myspace-godaddy/ https://mashable.com/2007/01/25/myspace-godaddy/ Versus: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse
- colejohnson66 6y agoHow do registrars “take down” domains? Is it a simple nameserver change that would then propagate over the next few hours?
- Lammy 6y agoYes, in the same way a registrar would redirect a domain to an “expired” page during the non-renewal grace period.
- dublin 6y agoFor DNS hosting, not just name registration, EasyDNS is far and away the best. Epik and Namecheap are also really good, and a bit cheaper, if you don't need all the services EasyDNS provides. Both EasyDNS and Epik have a strong commitment to supporting free speech (especially Epik, the DNS hoster for Gab).
- NateEag 6y agoI've been using EasyDNS for years. I'm a big fan. I've never had any issue at all, and their DNS hosting seems incredibly robust (I'm not qualified to really analyze it - there's a reason I don't do my own DNS).
- reaperducer 6y agoDirectNIC. Based in Louisiana. Been around forever. Fair prices. Can’t comment on its customer service, because in 23 years I've never had anything go wrong.
- OzMikeRobertson 6y agoThanks for the support and being such a loyal customer reaperducer. I work for Directnic. I can confirm Directnic has never and will never engage in activities as described by the OP. If you (or anyone) has any questions, needs assistance with anything relating to Directnic, feel free to reach out. My email is mrobertson@dnc.io.
- karlshea 6y agoI've been using Hover for years and like them.
- james_pm 6y agoAppreciate it! I can personally state for the record we don't do what is alleged. I also seriously doubt GoDaddy does it.
- Wintereise 6y agoI've been using https://internetbs.net/ https://internetbs.net/ for the better part of a decade now. They email me once a year that stuff is about to expire, I renew it. I've never had to interact with them otherwise about anything, which in this case means they're clearly doing something right.