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What registrar would you recommend instead?
by beachwood23 6y ago
What registrar would you recommend instead?
- fgonzag 6y agonamecheap has actually been a really good registrar, contrary to what the name suggests.
- StavrosK 6y agoI'm not very confident about Namecheap, given how long it took them to add 2FA. It seems to me that if they cared about security they wouldn't have waited literally years to do it.
- Erlich_Bachman 6y agoInstead of compromizing cryptocurrency services, they support paying for their services in cryptocurrency. That's arguably a better strategy for engaging with the target audience of crypto enthusiasts ;)
- SparkyMcUnicorn 6y agoCloudlfare does domains at cost, and I use them for every TLD they support. I've had great experience with porkbun, and no major complaints with namecheap.
- orthecreedence 6y agoNearlyfreespeech is more of a host than a registrar, but I feel they generally have really good practices and procedures areound security. I certainly trust them more than Godaddy. That said, they don't support a lot of .wacky suffixes other registrars might.
- donmcronald 6y agoNamecheap and Porkbun are pretty good. Namecheap is bigger, so it's possible to get support people that aren't amazing. Porkbun is pretty small and I feel like there's less room for underperforming support staff when you have less than 10 of them. Porkbun has an extra "domain password protection" option where you can require and extra password retrieving an auth code for domain transfer. I'm not sure how much use that is though. Once someone is into the account to the point they can change NS, the real world impact is similar to having the domain transferred away (and recovered).
- markdown 6y agoCloudflare.
- ForHackernews 6y agogandi.net has always been outstanding.
- glerk 6y agoSecond for gandi - I had very good experience with them, although prices are a bit higher than namecheap or porkbun.
- _hyn3 6y agoEasyDNS. It's been around since 1998 and is a founder-owned company, and the founder wrote the book on managing mission-critical domains: https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Mission-Critical-Demystifying-nameservers-ebook/dp/B07F71QMFM https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Mission-Critical-Demystifyin... And they do offer registry lock (on a limited number of TLD's.)