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My rule of thumb is that any organization playing-as-registrar, who is not deathly afraid of getting a reputation as a bad registrar, have no reason to not beco
by btown 4y ago
My rule of thumb is that any organization playing-as-registrar, who is not deathly afraid of getting a reputation as a bad registrar, have no reason to not become a bad registrar.
In practice, this means that organizations like Google and Cloudflare, for whom the registrar business is either a cost center or at best a drop in the bucket for their revenue (and likely the pet project of a small team that is almost certainly being reallocated away from it in this economic climate), aren't registrars I would use or recommend. They can be great for other services though, where there's alternatives if there should ever be a disruption to one's account!
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThey do need to keep dabbling as registrar in order to operate .dev. that's some incentive for them to not kill off the service.
- tedivm 4y agoBack in the 2000s it used to be common advice to tell people never host anything with their registrar- your registrar should basically just be your registrar and nothing else. This way issues with your hosting (or email) can be resolved by changing providers. I think it's time to start handing this advice out again.