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As a namecheap customer I completely support the greenfield approach to what it means to be a registrar. However, what I want from a registrar is to be the best
by noodlesUK 3y ago
As a namecheap customer I completely support the greenfield approach to what it means to be a registrar. However, what I want from a registrar is to be the best registrar. I don’t want hosting, email, or other services, I want a great DNS interface with an API that I can scope permissions on, and cheap and predictable name registration. That is it.
- jtriangle 3y agoI don't think it has to be an either/or thing, solong as a registrar isn't employing all sorts of dark patterns and ruining UX for the sake of upsell opportunities.
- bharrison 3y agoI'm with you, including NC customership and excluding a want of registrars to provide even DNS, let alone mail and hosting. That said, GoDaddy makes about half of it's annual revenue from it's 'core' business (domain name sales) over again in 'apps and commerce' (stuff you and I don't, but clearly many other less enlightened people want). The 'A&C' segment grew 13% in 2023 as opposed to 2% of core business.
- layer8 3y agoIt's also better to decouple one's email and hosting from the domain registrar, in terms of risk clustering.
- 14u2c 3y agoWhy not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.
- rpgwaiter 3y agoCF has such a limited TLD selection. I know it's growing all the time, but sites like namecheap seemingly support every TLD as soon as it comes out.