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Ugh. Any recommendations for a quality domain registrar? Might as well get started with the migration
by jddj 2y ago
Ugh.
Any recommendations for a quality domain registrar? Might as well get started with the migration
- dewey 2y agoI’ve been with Namecheap forever. It’s not super pretty UX wise but it works and boring is what I’m looking for in a domain registrar.
- ioblomov 2y agoEnom sounds similar. Been using it, with short default TTLs, for years.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- x0x0 2y agoThey're not competent. Data point: they sent me an email saying my domain would automatically renew in 30 days, and then renewed it in 2. While sure, I'm not upset that my domain renewed, I ended up moving to porkbun because I expect a registrar to accurately tell me dates and times. If you say something is happening in X days, I expect it to happen in X days.
- dewey 2y agoLabeling a whole company with millions of domains under management "not competent" because they sent one wrong email or there's a misunderstanding on how it works on the customer side? Hard to please everyone I guess.
- mfkp 2y agoI've been transferring my portfolio from namecheap over to porkbun. Much better customer service, better prices. https://porkbun.com https://porkbun.com
- demondemidi 2y agoHow do you know that won’t be sold to some other dumb org?
- jvan 2y agoPlease tell me what guarantee you would accept from any company that they won't eventually sell off a line of business or otherwise be acquired.
- imp0cat 2y agoAny company other than Google I might add. From Google, none.
- demondemidi 2y agoDing ding ding.
- mfkp 2y agoBecause selling domains is their core business. Not a google project that will be cancelled in a few years.
- gchamonlive 2y agoI'd recommend cloudflare for transparency.
- djbusby 2y agoOne thing that sucks when moving registrar is that some (Namecheap, Porkbun, Enom/Tucows) doesn't let you set DNS entries before migration. Move reg, updated NS and then add entries. So, my process now is to put DNS service OUTSIDE the registrar - so that switching one doesn't have to impact the others. Why these providers don't let me create the NS Zone before transfer confounds me.
- jsheard 2y agoPorkbun definitely lets you do that, they allow you to add an "external" domain which runs on their DNS (actually Cloudflare) but isn't registered through them, then you can seamlessly transfer the domain in to Porkbun later. IIRC Spaceship (Namecheaps soft-relaunch) lets you set up your DNS records as soon as you initiate a transfer to them, before it completes, so the records are ready as soon as the nameservers switch over. Not sure about the original Namecheap, I haven't used them for a while.
- nubinetwork 2y agoThey shouldn't publish a zone for a domain they don't control (yet). Regardless of who whois says manages the domain, if I were to query the new registrar's servers they could theoretically send people somewhere else than what was intended with the currently published zone information.
- djbusby 2y agoI don't want them to publish, I just want to create them before migration. Other registrar's had it for a while and Namecheap for sure still don't (maybe their new UI but they lost me years ago)
- account42 2y agoDNS is hierarchical so as long as the root servers point elsewhere it doesn't matter what they publish and once the root servers are updated then the new servers are the authoritive ones.
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- fourseventy 2y agoCloudflare
- bogwog 2y agoI tried cloudflare but am worried they're going to start restricting features or something because of how aggressively they try to upsell shit I don't need. They say they sell domains at cost, which is a red flag since it means people who only use them as a register are going to be the first to go when they start loading up the enshittification bandwagon. I don't care about the price of domains. They're relatively cheap even with the mark up from your typical registrar. What I care about is peace of mind that I won't lose my domain due to an incompetent registrar, or will have to scramble to transfer everything again because of reasons outside of my control. Cloudflare doesn't offer that. I've now decided to move to Namecheap. Idk how solid they are, but they seem to have been selling domains for a very long time.
- dboreham 2y agoIn my experience Cloudflare is not appropriate unless you plan to only host CF services on the Zone. E.g. no delegation allowed.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- dboreham 2y agoPorkbun here, and some AWS (which is a reseller of someone else iirc). Also we have a bunch of older domains at OpenSRS but tend not to use them for new work.
- ted_dunning 2y agoI have been very happy with iwantmyname.com
- popcalc 2y agohttp://infomaniak.ch http://infomaniak.ch
- johnloeber 2y agoI've been very happy with Dynadot. I don't like that domain hosting is just one of many products for Cloudflare and others (as we've seen come up for Google!) and have had bad experiences with Namecheap et al.