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Ask HN: What's the best Domain Registrar?
I've been looking for a good new domain registrar. I know that a lot of people distrust Go Daddy these days. But who are the good domain registrars?
- Tzunamitom 15y agoA friend of mine runs http://www.namecheap.com http://www.namecheap.com - I have massive respect for them after they ran an anti-Go Daddy campaign when Bob Parsons posted the elephant killing video, and again when he supported SOPA...
- jnt8686 15y agoI'm assuming you have massive respect for their clever use of a PR opportunity?
- Tzunamitom 15y agoNo. I have massive respect for their clever use of two PR opportunities.
- Tzunamitom 15y agoAnd I do love elephants.
- fagatini 15y agohttp://nearlyfreespeech.net http://nearlyfreespeech.net is good I hear.
- GoofyGewber 15y agohttp://lithiumhosting.com/ http://lithiumhosting.com/ Love it.
- kappaknight 15y agoNamecheap.com seems like a good option. However, I have a few international TLDs that they don't manage, so I ended up going with Name.com (http://name.com http://name.com). They too ran an anti GoDaddy campaign and the service seems straight forward enough w/o all the stupid upsells that GD does.
- mirsadm 15y agoI've been using namecheap.com for a while and they are, in general, pretty good. One issue I have noticed is that their redirecting service seems to be pretty unreliable. It appears to work 2/3rd of the time. The other 1/3 it gives off all sorts of errors.
- joshontheweb 15y agoHover.com and ghandi.net aren't the cheapest but they are easy to use and don't bombard you with up sells and ads
- staunch 15y agoBeen using 1and1.com for years. Cheap. No complaints.
- rush-tea 15y agoi love 1and1 as well
- staunch 15y agoBeen using 1and1.com for years. Cheap. No complaints.
- joealba 15y agoIf you want a registrar and DNS host, I've had great luck with http://dnsimple.com http://dnsimple.com Great customer support, and they're always adding new features. And having 3rd party DNS hosting separate from your server provider makes switching providers easier.
- molsongolden 15y agoI just started using Name.com and it seems great so far.
- kenna 15y agoMoniker is my favorite hands down: http://moniker.com http://moniker.com They are also a favorite of domainers for their features and support. In my opinion they have unmatched security, and will fight to keep your privacy when using whois protection (unlike another popular registrar listed here as an alternative to GoDaddy, from my own personal experience).
- cmatthias 15y agoPlus, their control panel pages to assign custom nameservers doesn't work half the time! (or at least, it didn't in 2010 when I used them). And, should you instead choose their DNS service, they'll throw in some free 3-4 hour total outages with no explanation from customer service! [1] My recommendation would be to stay as far away from Moniker as you possibly can. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=moniker+dns+outage https://www.google.com/search?q=moniker+dns+outage
- dcassiano 15y agodynadot.com is a good option. Cheap and always do promotions for customers.
- mchannon 15y agoDefinitely not the most full-featured, but dot.tk sells .tk domains for free.