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Ask HN: What's the current best domain host?
I've got domains on 1and1, GoDaddy and NameCheap. I don't like any of them due to various reasons including clunky user experience, hidden fees, very slow or no support. I want to consolidate them all onto one host.
Looking for recommendations of modern domain hosts that provide a good user experience and competitive pricing.
Don't need hosting, just domains.
- dieselgate 4y agoI get my domains from Dreamhost. It works well for my needs - host with a few different places including Digital Ocean and GitHub pages fwiw
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- fIREpOK 4y agoNamecheap.com isn't bad...I think that $10 is kinda expensive for a domain though.
- simpleintheory 4y agoThe issue is that ICANN already wants the $8/year cost, so if they’re to make any margin at all…
- fIREpOK 4y agofor sure
- quickthrower2 4y agoplus one for namecheap, out of habit rather than a specific reason, but no reason to change
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoPlus points for being willing to experiment with Handshake names.
- DerekBickerton 4y agohttps://njal.la/ https://njal.la/ https://www.gandi.net/en-US https://www.gandi.net/en-US
- dev_0 4y ago[dead]
- brunnock 4y agoI've been using https://domains.google/ https://domains.google/ for years. $12/year/domain. Email forwarding is included. I don't even know if they charge extra for anything else.
- detourdog 4y agoI have been with network solutions for registration from the beginning and panix.com cheap-web for primary dns. http://www.panix.com/web/ http://www.panix.com/web/ They are actual unix sysadmins and very easy to deal with.
- nathants 4y agoaws.
- Leftium 4y agoI have been moving all my domains to https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar I think they charge you their cost for domains hoping you'll pay for their other services later. Overall it's been a good experience. Sometimes you have to use CloudFlare rules instead of simpler settings at other registrars.
- imirzadeh 4y agoSame experience! CF is great. Their free tier is so good I can't believe people use other clouds for personal/small projects. The integration of products is also seamless: dns/ssl/workers/pages/storage for free!
- aeharding 4y agoI’m being bitten by this right now. Registered a domain in personal account, want to move to a different cloudflare account and I can’t since that’s completely unsupported. The recommendation is to transfer out to external registrar, wait 60 days, transfer back in. Can’t even change the name servers, since that’s not configurable with cloudflare. And I can’t move the domain out of cloudflare so I can change nameservers for 60 days because I just registered the domain… Support very unhelpful, situation sucks.
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- tkiolp4 4y agoNo problems with gandi.net so far. Very friendly customer service as well.
- is_true 4y agoI use two companies: name.com and one local provider, mostly because the local provider has an offer and when you move a domain to them the renewal costs USD2.
- codegeek 4y ago1and1 and Godaddy are absolute trash. But what's your issue with Namecheap ? They have solid support and yes domains are a bit pricey may be compared to another registrar but when I look at domain registrar, I care mostly about Support and reliability.
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- romanhn 4y agoI registered my last domain with Porkbun based on HN recommendations. No complaints.
- trumbitta2 4y agohttps://dnsimple.com/ https://dnsimple.com/ Hands down, blindfolded, and drunk
- mhdhn 4y agoI could not figure out how much one .com domain costs. Fail
- trumbitta2 4y agohttps://dnsimple.com/tlds https://dnsimple.com/tlds
- schwartzworld 4y agoI've never had a problem with Hover