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That was quick. I just had a renewal coming up, so I took the opportunity to transfer out. Originally, I was going to try Cloudflare, due to their at-cost pric
by schemescape 3y ago
That was quick. I just had a renewal coming up, so I took the opportunity to transfer out.
Originally, I was going to try Cloudflare, due to their at-cost pricing, but they didn’t allow transferring domains without first moving DNS (and maybe more? I couldn’t tell) to Cloudflare. I didn’t really understand the implications (would I have to use their CDN?), so I bailed out part way through. Edit: sounds like it’s just DNS: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/
I ended up going with Porkbun, based on recommendations here. Their interface is a blast from the past, but their documentation is pretty good. The only issue I encountered is that they don’t support wildcard email forwarding like Google Domains, so I had to inventory the email addresses I’d been using and setup manual forwards for each.
Overall, I wish Google Domains was still a thing. It was easy to use and cheap, and I thought it would stand the test of time.
Edit to add: Google Domains’s UI/instructions for transferring out were great. What a shame the service is going away!
- _joel 3y agoJust keep the NS set to the original DNS? I've done that with cloudflare before and not needed to transfer in the whole DNS.
- schemescape 3y agoThe Cloudflare FAQ says you have to set the authoritative name servers to Cloudflare’s: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/#what-happens-to-my-nameservers-when-i-transfer-my-domain-to-cloudflare https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/#what-happen... If that’s not the case, then I’m definitely misunderstanding something about DNS!
- bandergirl 3y agoThat's correct, you cannot change the name servers of a domain purchased on Cloudflare, but you don't have to use their proxy. I have yet to see a DNS zone manager as good as CloudFlare, so I've been using it anyway for the past 10 years for all of my domains.
- schemescape 3y agoThanks! In retrospect, that doesn’t seem like a big deal. I guess I’m effectively paying $1/year for the option of being able to change authoritative name servers to whatever I want (and the privilege of using Porkbun’s presumably worse interface). I’ll admit I was already a little biased against Cloudflare because one time I got caught by their infinite captcha (maybe due to my OS not being up to date because it was an old computer? I’ll never know…).
- Eisenstein 3y agoYou just reminded me about wildcard email forwarding. If squarespace turns that off I am screwed. Do you know any providers which will keep it?
- peddling-brink 3y agoCloudflare supports it.
- kstrauser 3y agoNamecheap has it for free on domains registered there.
- josephb 3y agohttps://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/ https://mxroute.com/ https://mxroute.com/ Are two providers that I've used to catch-all and forward to an external mailbox.
- peddling-brink 3y agoMy only dislike about porkbun is their domain search. Google domains had amazing search, as might be expected.