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It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes. Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b)
by schemescape 3y ago
It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes.
Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b) mail forwarding, and c) self-service subdomains? (Maybe the last two are standard—I have no idea since I’ve always used Google Domains)
- justinclift 3y agoEasyDNS (easydns.com) has been good for us. They're also not one of the places that easily rolls over to fake legal notices, which reduces one potential stress vector as well.
- matthasfun 3y agoThis is exactly what I am here looking for. I have 18 domains. 14 have mail forwarding, 2 have dedicated emails through Google workspaces and 2 are forwards to another domain. I’m not paying an extra 144$ a year for the domains PLUS whatever additional fees I’ll run into after this to follow this to Squarespace. I know email forwarding isn’t the standard because Hover charges you 5$ per year per domain just for email forwarding. So frustrating.
- scrollaway 3y agoCloudflare does email forwarding for free. Just swap your nameservers to cloudflare’s.
- radus 3y agoI’ve used namecheap for many years and have started using porkbun recently. Both have given me no problems, have reasonable prices and have those features.
- schemescape 3y agoLooks like Namecheap is $15/year. That’s a 25% increase over Google Domains, although not a huge amount in absolute terms. Porkbun advertises $10/year, which would be great, if true.
- scrollaway 3y agoI use Gandi which has all the TLDs, with Cloudflare as my nameserver. This setup means I get reasonable prices with a single point of purchase for all my domains, but also get a decent UI and API to manage the DNS. Cloudflare email makes mail forwarding incredibly easy too. You get this as well in this setup.
- yett 3y agoThey are increasing prices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-price-increase.pdf https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-p...
- scrollaway 3y agoI know. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything better than Gandi, which actually has all the TLDs I need. Every registrar out there just has some subset. Having a single point of payment is a big deal for me; if it costs me 50 euros extra a year to not have to deal with three different UIs, logins, accounts etc it's well worth it.
- noja 3y agoMaybe Netim? https://www.netim.com/en https://www.netim.com/en
- scrollaway 3y agoThanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?
- noja 3y agoNot yet. I am about to switch. My domain bill will jump by more than 50% (comparing Gandi after 13 July 2023 with Netim for prices on renewals), and Netim came up top for an EU company doing renewals.
- newusertoday 3y agoyou can use cloudflare for all three.
- schemescape 3y agoLooks like Cloudflare doesn’t mark up domain registration pricing? Thanks for the suggestion!
- tebbers 3y agoCloudflare is even cheaper than Google AFAIK. I already use them for my main domains and will probably move all my other Google domains over there as well.
- schemescape 3y agoOne potential issue I see is that Cloudflare doesn’t allow changing to non-Cloudflare name servers. Not an issue for me, but worth noting since this is fairly unusual, as far as I’ve seen.