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I use Namecheap for most of my domains, it quite sucks. I will admit that the DDNS functionality is nice (even supported by ddclient out of the box, if you ever

I use Namecheap for most of my domains, it quite sucks. I will admit that the DDNS functionality is nice (even supported by ddclient out of the box, if you ever need that), the selection of domains and everything else is as you'd expect, but the UI feels really clunky and is almost always slow for me. I did briefly use Porkbun and have to say that the minimalist UI that actually loads fast was a breath of fresh air and was so much less frustrating than Namecheap. I wonder what other good options for domains are out there. No comment on customer service in either case, though.

omnimus 2y ago
Just buy domain on namecheap and move DNS somewhere else. Most server providers have good free ones or even cloudflare. Problem solved.
chneu 2y ago
I've never used namecheap for anything except setting nameservers. I don't see why you'd use a registrar for anything else.
- KronisLV 2y ago
  I might not want to run my own DNS servers. I might also not want to set them to ones provided by just a single VPS provider for my use case. I've migrated between DigitalOcean, Scaleway, Hetzner, Time4VPS and Contabo in the past and I don't want to have my domains be tied to any one of them, much like I might not always want to have Cloudflare in the mix. For example, recently I migrated from Time4VPS to Contabo due to better prices and more RAM (I realized that most of the time my servers are near-idle, so some overprovisioning is perfectly fine as long as it leads to money savings), I could just change the A records for specific servers in NameCheap and the CNAME records that point to those for the actual apps picked up on that and it was a pretty trivial migration. Having the NameCheap DNS UI not suck would have made that even more pleasant, vs it being kind of slow and clunky. That move saved me somewhere between 400-800 EUR a year, which with the salaries here is pretty good!

omnimus 2y ago

Just buy domain on namecheap and move DNS somewhere else. Most server providers have good free ones or even cloudflare. Problem solved.

chneu 2y ago

I've never used namecheap for anything except setting nameservers. I don't see why you'd use a registrar for anything else.

KronisLV 2y ago
I might not want to run my own DNS servers. I might also not want to set them to ones provided by just a single VPS provider for my use case. I've migrated between DigitalOcean, Scaleway, Hetzner, Time4VPS and Contabo in the past and I don't want to have my domains be tied to any one of them, much like I might not always want to have Cloudflare in the mix. For example, recently I migrated from Time4VPS to Contabo due to better prices and more RAM (I realized that most of the time my servers are near-idle, so some overprovisioning is perfectly fine as long as it leads to money savings), I could just change the A records for specific servers in NameCheap and the CNAME records that point to those for the actual apps picked up on that and it was a pretty trivial migration. Having the NameCheap DNS UI not suck would have made that even more pleasant, vs it being kind of slow and clunky. That move saved me somewhere between 400-800 EUR a year, which with the salaries here is pretty good!