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I enjoyed the post about cloudflare. Adding another perspective: the important aspects of domain registrars changes depending on what you plan to use them for.

I enjoyed the post about cloudflare. Adding another perspective: the important aspects of domain registrars changes depending on what you plan to use them for. You noted a specific kind of dns record, and also security. For dns records, you aren’t locked to a domain registrar. DNS records are offered by which nameserver you choose. (I apologize for being pedantic, but once you realize you can register their domain one place, and then serve dns records from another place…things get much easier.) Another thing to consider are domain disputes and privacy. You didn’t mention either, but they (can be) serious considerations. I’ve really appreciated www.tld-list.com to help identify which registrars offer the best value- including whois privacy. Regarding domain disputes, you might want to look into different hosts to see how they are handled. There isn’t (or does not seem to be) a specific standard regarding what is required to dispute a domain. We’ve all heard horror stories of a domain suddenly switching ownership due to a mysterious fax to the registrar. I appreciate www.namesilo.com because they don’t fluctuate on their .com prices, have reasonable renewal fees, and offer Whois privacy for free (when possible). I have 20+ domains with them, so that should give you some perspective of how little I know. ;) My affiliate link: https://www.namesilo.com/register.php?rid=e1d6e83hi https://www.namesilo.com/register.php?rid=e1d6e83hi One last comment: if your current issue is a dns record, then I’d recommend changing your nameserver to cloudflare or some other dns provider. This way, you don’t have to transfer your domain to a new registrar (which can be a hassle). Instead, you just change the nameserver record in your domain’s hover.com settings. Hope you figure it out!

brundolf 5y ago
Thanks for all the info! I ended up changing both (servers and registration) over to Cloudflare. It was annoying that proxies were on by default and I had to turn them off manually, and the website is kind of fiddly to be honest (I had to input my payment info three times), but overall I trust them to have good security practices, and they have a reasonable-enough track record when it comes to disputes and business dealings. I feel like I know what I'm getting, and all I really want is for my personal site and email to do what I need and not get compromised.
stevenicr 5y ago
I recently discovered tld-list.com - finally a way to sort by renewal price rather than the standard introduction price so many places show! This led me to porkbun (https://porkbun.com https://porkbun.com) - which I am considering using for some .top domains to try them out - if anyone has any experience with them please enlighten me! I do not like godaddy since they went stock marker years ago, and was moving all my domains to uniregistry - but then godaddy bought them out - and somehow made the support worse - and then gave all my .top domains to some company that doesn't do US wording and stuff very well - and jacked the price - so I'm letting them expire there and getting new ones. Given all the activism for cancelling online, I might try to find where strumfrunt got domaining from - really feel that domain names, dns, and pipe to /from the net should all be dumb-pipe / immune to X Y and Z pressures, but some of these places put PR reputation in the MSM as more important than principals and it's lame to deal with sometimes. my 3 cents
thiht 5y ago
> There isn’t (or does not seem to be) a specific standard regarding what is required to dispute a domain Glad you asked, actually there is! (kinda[1]) You can check UDRP[2] (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy). If you receive a dispute notice on a gTLD/newGTLD that doesn't use UDRP, you can redirect the lawyers to this procedure or complain to the ICANN. This is a good way to eliminate bogus complaints because an UDRP procedure is ~$1000 to initiate. [1]: UDRP is an ICANN procedure so it's not necessarily available on ccTLDs (2-letter TLDs), but these should have their own procedure (Afnic for .fr has Syreli for instance) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Resolution_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...

brundolf 5y ago

Thanks for all the info! I ended up changing both (servers and registration) over to Cloudflare. It was annoying that proxies were on by default and I had to turn them off manually, and the website is kind of fiddly to be honest (I had to input my payment info three times), but overall I trust them to have good security practices, and they have a reasonable-enough track record when it comes to disputes and business dealings. I feel like I know what I'm getting, and all I really want is for my personal site and email to do what I need and not get compromised.

stevenicr 5y ago

I recently discovered tld-list.com - finally a way to sort by renewal price rather than the standard introduction price so many places show! This led me to porkbun (https://porkbun.com https://porkbun.com) - which I am considering using for some .top domains to try them out - if anyone has any experience with them please enlighten me! I do not like godaddy since they went stock marker years ago, and was moving all my domains to uniregistry - but then godaddy bought them out - and somehow made the support worse - and then gave all my .top domains to some company that doesn't do US wording and stuff very well - and jacked the price - so I'm letting them expire there and getting new ones. Given all the activism for cancelling online, I might try to find where strumfrunt got domaining from - really feel that domain names, dns, and pipe to /from the net should all be dumb-pipe / immune to X Y and Z pressures, but some of these places put PR reputation in the MSM as more important than principals and it's lame to deal with sometimes. my 3 cents

thiht 5y ago

> There isn’t (or does not seem to be) a specific standard regarding what is required to dispute a domain Glad you asked, actually there is! (kinda[1]) You can check UDRP[2] (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy). If you receive a dispute notice on a gTLD/newGTLD that doesn't use UDRP, you can redirect the lawyers to this procedure or complain to the ICANN. This is a good way to eliminate bogus complaints because an UDRP procedure is ~$1000 to initiate. [1]: UDRP is an ICANN procedure so it's not necessarily available on ccTLDs (2-letter TLDs), but these should have their own procedure (Afnic for .fr has Syreli for instance) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Resolution_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...