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Here's the list that i post every time someone asks this. There are plenty of other ones, but these are the "tried and true" top list. * Gandi.net * Namec

by mtogo 15y ago

Here's the list that i post every time someone asks this. There are plenty of other ones, but these are the "tried and true" top list. * Gandi.net * Namecheap * Name.com (Some very sleazy practices, see child) * Moniker

jackowayed 15y ago
Name.com is pretty evil too. They opt you in to a "service" that displays ads from your domain (where they keep the revenue, of course), and say that you are responsible for ensuring that the content is legal See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
- mtogo 15y ago
  Thanks, I've updated the post.
- stchangg 15y ago
  I just bought a domain from Name.com yesterday (in an effort to escape from GoDaddy) and I'm surprised at how nasty their interface is. These big registrars really try to make their users suffer.
honeyman 15y ago
One more vote from me to Moniker — their control panel might be a little bit more awkward and buggy than it should be, but the services are stable and non-disturbing. And in general, it is usual a good idea to have separate service providers for domain name registering and for hosting.
jackowayed 15y ago
I'm almost extremely happy with Dreamhost as a registrar. (I got a year of hosting from them for $10 during one of their quite-common sales, and then let the hosting go but got to keep them as a registrar.) Their interface is a little clunky but reasonably nice, and they make some stuff, like setting up Google Apps, super-easy. Unfortunately, their password recovery scheme is to email me my password in plaintext, and I'm really not comfortable having my main domain that controls my email and online presence protected by bad security, so I'm moving off of them very soon, at least for danieljackoway.com
mekoka 15y ago
A vote for Moniker from me as well, having settled for them 3 years ago, after a few years with 1and1 and some with Godaddy and having tried various other registrars. I use their control panel once every couple of months and although it doesn't have the "pretty" element to it, it's quite an easy and intuitive tool to work with and I even dare say it, is the most functional domain management tool I've seen. At a glance you can see which domain is locked, private, auto-renewed, etc and changing any of this is just a matter of selecting a couple of domains from the list and applying the action you want in a batch. For example, you want to transfer 5 domains away: 1- go to the domains manager 2- from the list, check each domain you wish to transfer away 3- click on the Transfer Domains Out action 4- simply follow the flow and provide the extra info where required. You could be done in less than a minute.

by mtogo 15y ago

jackowayed 15y ago

Name.com is pretty evil too. They opt you in to a "service" that displays ads from your domain (where they keep the revenue, of course), and say that you are responsible for ensuring that the content is legal See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...

mtogo 15y ago
Thanks, I've updated the post.
stchangg 15y ago
I just bought a domain from Name.com yesterday (in an effort to escape from GoDaddy) and I'm surprised at how nasty their interface is. These big registrars really try to make their users suffer.

honeyman 15y ago

One more vote from me to Moniker — their control panel might be a little bit more awkward and buggy than it should be, but the services are stable and non-disturbing. And in general, it is usual a good idea to have separate service providers for domain name registering and for hosting.

jackowayed 15y ago

I'm almost extremely happy with Dreamhost as a registrar. (I got a year of hosting from them for $10 during one of their quite-common sales, and then let the hosting go but got to keep them as a registrar.) Their interface is a little clunky but reasonably nice, and they make some stuff, like setting up Google Apps, super-easy. Unfortunately, their password recovery scheme is to email me my password in plaintext, and I'm really not comfortable having my main domain that controls my email and online presence protected by bad security, so I'm moving off of them very soon, at least for danieljackoway.com

mekoka 15y ago

A vote for Moniker from me as well, having settled for them 3 years ago, after a few years with 1and1 and some with Godaddy and having tried various other registrars. I use their control panel once every couple of months and although it doesn't have the "pretty" element to it, it's quite an easy and intuitive tool to work with and I even dare say it, is the most functional domain management tool I've seen. At a glance you can see which domain is locked, private, auto-renewed, etc and changing any of this is just a matter of selecting a couple of domains from the list and applying the action you want in a batch. For example, you want to transfer 5 domains away: 1- go to the domains manager 2- from the list, check each domain you wish to transfer away 3- click on the Transfer Domains Out action 4- simply follow the flow and provide the extra info where required. You could be done in less than a minute.