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1. My domains all predate Amazon becoming a registrar. I registered my first domain in 1997. I register them for 5-10 years at a time. There's no simplicity ben
by dangrossman 5y ago
1. My domains all predate Amazon becoming a registrar. I registered my first domain in 1997. I register them for 5-10 years at a time. There's no simplicity benefit in transferring and paying more.
2. Too many eggs in one basket. I prefer to minimize (a) the chances of losing an account/asset and (b) the impact if it happens. If Amazon drops me, or has a long-lasting outage, I can re-build everything I run on another host and point the domains there in an afternoon. Not so if Amazon also owns the domains and hosts the DNS.
- nkozyra 5y agoProbably not a good enough benefit in the age of letsencrypt but you do get free certs if you're with R53.
- movedx 5y agoNot to mention the dynamic alias records, automated certificate validations and auto-renewing, and the very excellent integrations with other AWS services. People like making life harder for themselves /shrug
- withinboredom 5y agoMost decent registrars have APIs allowing you to do all of this with just a few lines of code in a script.
- imwillofficial 5y agoIf disaster recovery or separation of duties makes you shrug, I’d recommend some basic risk management and security training.
- veeti 5y agoYou can use ACM for free without Route 53, it just takes manual effort to set up verification records.