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I've been with Namecheap for most of my domains for a couple years now. One of the surprisingly awesome extras: Dynamic DNS No more need for DynDNS or another

by dmarble 15y ago

I've been with Namecheap for most of my domains for a couple years now. One of the surprisingly awesome extras: Dynamic DNS No more need for DynDNS or another third-party DNS service for this simple but useful feature! Once enabled for a domain, you can simply use an update client to regularly update the IP Namecheap servers point to. See Namecheap's knowledgebase articles to enable and use it: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/category.aspx/11/dynamic-dns http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/category.aspx... Update clients: ddclient (unixy) - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient inadyn (unixy) - http://www.inatech.eu/inadyn/ http://www.inatech.eu/inadyn/ Namecheap's DNS update client (Windows) - http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/28/11/do-you-provide-any-dynamic-dns-clients http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...

smilliken 15y ago
Second the recommendation for NameCheap dynamic DNS. In my experience it's much more reliable than no-ip and dyndns. Also, if you have dd-wrt installed on your router, the firmware comes with a dynamic dns client that works well with NameCheap.
3dFlatLander 15y ago
I'm a big fan of their free e-mail forwarding and customer support (they got a domain back for me that I had let expire out of its grace period). But, I'm surprised so many people tolerated godaddy for this long just because of their control panel. Every time I have to go in there and help a client/friend, I begin to feel like an idiot almost immediately. It's impossible to find anything intuitively and I feel like their design changes every few months. Namecheaps panel isn't pretty by a long shot, but it's so clutter free I just don't care.
- loumf 15y ago
  Not to defend them, but GoDaddy's iPad app is pretty good, and I use that rather than their control panel whenever I can. I am fed up with them for other reasons, so this comes at a good time.

by dmarble 15y ago

smilliken 15y ago

Second the recommendation for NameCheap dynamic DNS. In my experience it's much more reliable than no-ip and dyndns. Also, if you have dd-wrt installed on your router, the firmware comes with a dynamic dns client that works well with NameCheap.

3dFlatLander 15y ago

I'm a big fan of their free e-mail forwarding and customer support (they got a domain back for me that I had let expire out of its grace period). But, I'm surprised so many people tolerated godaddy for this long just because of their control panel. Every time I have to go in there and help a client/friend, I begin to feel like an idiot almost immediately. It's impossible to find anything intuitively and I feel like their design changes every few months. Namecheaps panel isn't pretty by a long shot, but it's so clutter free I just don't care.

loumf 15y ago
Not to defend them, but GoDaddy's iPad app is pretty good, and I use that rather than their control panel whenever I can. I am fed up with them for other reasons, so this comes at a good time.