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Ask HN: What is your preferred alternative to GoDaddy?
With the recent news concerning GoDaddy, I plan to move all of my domains to a new registrar.
So I put to you this question: which registrar should that be?
- decadentcactus 15y agoNamecheap I reg'd one with Gandi but to be honest haven't used much of it, so can't say
- espadagroup 15y agoIn my experience Godaddy has been fine with just registering domains. I have my domains there but use PHPFog for my hosting.
- matan_a 15y agoI think that most people won't have a problem with any domain registrar as long as the price is decent, they don't cause any problems, and DNS management is sufficient. I personally use 1and1 for all my domains, but it's just because of the above reasons. When I feel i need a little more DNS zone magic, i set Amazon Route 53 as the nameservers and configure it there as needed.
- ohashi 15y agoIt's all dandy til it's not. And some companies really screw you over when it's not. Price should be the LAST concern on something like a domain name. Considering the difference is a few dollars and most people don't register more than a couple, it SHOULD be a non issue.
- whichdan 15y agoI've been happily using Moniker.com for five or six years now. They have really solid bulk domain management.
- runjake 15y agoname.com, as recommended to me by many on here.
- qxb 15y agoInternet.bs for me. Very cheap, straightforward management, quick to propagate changes.
- khakimov 15y ago+1 http://www.internetbs.net/ http://www.internetbs.net/ easy and fast solution for my domains.
- r4vik 15y agoGandi because you get full control of your zone file and SSL cert
- com4 15y agoGandi is a bit slow, they don't obfuscate your name with private registration, and it's a giant pain to change the name of the owner. (Sign up for a new account and transfer all domains to the new account)
- Mankhool 15y agoIn Canada, Blacksun.
- kennethologist 15y agoName.com bought about 5 domains and will move my other domains there from godaddy and 1and1, network solutions as they expire.
- pkamb 15y agoNFS: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
- karlzt 15y agoif you search HN you will find that Namecheap has good reputation. NFS is good too, but is a reseller of Public Domain Registry http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/accredited#accredited http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/a...
- riffmaster 15y agoName for international domains like .im and Namecheap for others
- Joakal 15y agoI use Jumba, a local registrar.
- MattBearman 15y agoAnyone looking for a UK based company, I use Heart Internet - http://heartinternet.com http://heartinternet.com - and they're always been great for me. I used to use their shared hosting before I moved over to Linode, and even that was good.
- leeHS 15y agoiwantmydomain.com I can't believe these guys are not mainstream yet. Hooked up to my Heroku app in 5 seconds, then setup gmail apps in another 5 seconds. I has zero complaints with these guys.
- iaskwhy 15y agohttps://www.coffeeanddomains.com https://www.coffeeanddomains.com as discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970659 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970659
- Dimitris 15y agodreamhost. super easy to use and they have awesome support!
- nye 15y agoInmotion - excellent support
- nye 15y agoInmotion - excellent support