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I tallied up all the votes in a HN thread about registrars and settled on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Their payment system is weird (you fund your pool of money from

I tallied up all the votes in a HN thread about registrars and settled on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Their payment system is weird (you fund your pool of money from which charges are deducted), but otherwise it was quick, painless, and not full of creepy, sexualized imagery and cheesy, repetitive upselling techniques. GoDaddy is a bit cheaper if you spend the time to scrounge up coupon codes, but wow, NearlyFreeSpeech was the first time my domain registrar's website didn't give me a headache.

idlewords 15y ago
Usually that kind of payment system is there to avoid having to pay significant per-transaction fees, which are especially onerous for low-priced stuff.
guelo 15y ago
It's a shame, HN used to function as a super high quality recommendation resource for startup services like this. Now after they removed comment scores not so much, or at least not as easily.
seabee 15y ago
NFS was a GoDaddy reseller, last time I checked.
- josephb 15y ago
  According to the NFS FAQ they use Public Domain Registry. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/accredited#accredited http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/a...
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mst 15y ago
I once ended up in a ... discusssion ... with the owner of nfs.net about deployment of certain open source projects I'm involved with. It didn't end well, due to a couple of early misunderstandings that we failed to resolve before the conversation went of the rails. As such, I don't think I'd ever want to be a customer of theirs. However, I -do- believe that their service is competently delivered and extremely cost effective; every other user I've ever spoken to has been entirely happy, so I've put my own experience down to a combination of personality conflict and bad luck, and am happy to say their service is likely one very much worth considering if you fall into any of the markets they target.

idlewords 15y ago

Usually that kind of payment system is there to avoid having to pay significant per-transaction fees, which are especially onerous for low-priced stuff.

guelo 15y ago

It's a shame, HN used to function as a super high quality recommendation resource for startup services like this. Now after they removed comment scores not so much, or at least not as easily.

seabee 15y ago

NFS was a GoDaddy reseller, last time I checked.

josephb 15y ago
According to the NFS FAQ they use Public Domain Registry. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/accredited#accredited http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/a...

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mst 15y ago

I once ended up in a ... discusssion ... with the owner of nfs.net about deployment of certain open source projects I'm involved with. It didn't end well, due to a couple of early misunderstandings that we failed to resolve before the conversation went of the rails. As such, I don't think I'd ever want to be a customer of theirs. However, I -do- believe that their service is competently delivered and extremely cost effective; every other user I've ever spoken to has been entirely happy, so I've put my own experience down to a combination of personality conflict and bad luck, and am happy to say their service is likely one very much worth considering if you fall into any of the markets they target.