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Support EFF: Move Your Domain Day on Namecheap (1/22)

58 points by ted0 14y ago

electrotype 14y ago
How much will be the renewal fees?
- dangrossman 14y ago
  $10.69/year for .com without a coupon. It's a fair price for working with a good company that's stood up for its customers in court, whereas a certain top-selling budget registrar frequently does the opposite. http://www.namecheap.com/domains/domain-pricing.aspx http://www.namecheap.com/domains/domain-pricing.aspx
kylemaxwell 14y ago
I still have a domain or two on GoDaddy that I keep meaning to move. This is the impetus I needed, I think.
- benesch 14y ago
  Namecheap is a decent registrar, and I'm glad to see they support a free and open internet. But if you want a good registrar: [1] https://iwantmyname.com https://iwantmyname.com [2] http://www.gandi.net http://www.gandi.net iwantmyname has a refreshingly clean interface and absolutely no frills. Register a domain (tons of TLDs), set DNS. Done. gandi claims it's a "no bullshit" registrar. More features, like auto-setup of vanity nameservers, but less focused on domains. Both better than all the alternatives. You pay ~$5/year extra for the lack of features (how ironic), but it's well worth it. No intrusive interstitial ads, no sad excuses for DNS managers, no cluttered control panels, and no constant upsell attempts.
  - sgdesign 14y ago
    What about Hover? I've been hearing good things about it. [1] http://hover.com http://hover.com
  - dangrossman 14y ago
    Gandi is a little too good for those of us running anything other than a comment-free religious blog. The contract you agree to when purchasing a domain legally binds you to observe, uphold, and enforce on your visitors a code of ethics. That code involves, among other things, fighting "deviant uses of the internet" and "protecting public order and good moral standards". That's just the beginning of your extensive moral policing duties should you not want to give Gandi the right to steal your domain from you at any time. Good luck explaining that your post about hacking on a Raspberry Pi is not the type of hacking they prohibit you from discussing using a domain you purchased from them. There's virtually no way to run a forum, blog with open comments, or anything else enabling user-generated content without breaching your contract. I'm not making this up. I think their "no bullshit" policy is marketing bullshit considering the actual stuff they put in their TOS. The terms are ridiculous for the service they're providing -- commodity domain registration, which is the updating of tiny records in a database at Verisign. Read it yourself: https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pdf https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN....
    - benesch 14y ago
      While in practice I don't think it'd be much of an issue, that's really scary. Thanks for pointing that out.
subsystem 14y ago
Would love to switch, but for some reason they don't allow whois privacy on .ws domains, unlike a number of other registrars.
paulgb 14y ago
Namecheap is still a good registrar (I've been with them for nearly 7 years), but they've gone downhill a little lately. I see more ads than I used to when I go to change a DNS setting, including ones that look like application alerts but are really ads for hosting or SSL certificates.
- derefr 14y ago
  I had the same experience with Namecheap--I frequently have to change my records, but it was a deep dive past a lot of layers of fluff to get to that part of the control panel each time I wanted to do it. Oddly enough, though, the process became a lot more pleasant when I began using CloudFlare, purely as a side-effect: my domains are still registered with Namecheap, but since CloudFlare requires you to host your DNS records through them to do their magic (I grumbled at the time, I admit), you do all your little zone-record edits through their DNS control panel instead. And it's a nice control panel. Now I only have to deal with Namecheap when I actually need to renew/buy/transfer something, which seems about right.
codequickly 14y ago
I've transferred about half of my domains from godaddy to namecheap at the end of last year. It looks like I have a great excuse to transfer the rest of them now.
corford 14y ago
Damn. I just moved 4 domains to them earlier today, would have waited if I'd had known about this. In case it's useful for anyone else, I moved them because they're currently running a promo for transferred domains where they'll throw in a years whois privacy for free and a discounted SSL cert.
- tedivm 14y ago
  You could always donate two to six dollars to the EFF directly for the same effect- or round up to $10 just to one up them.
rmccue 14y ago
Unfortunately, doesn't include .io domains. Anyone know a good place that handles those?
- colmvp 14y ago
  I personally like: https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/
  - benesch 14y ago
    See dangrossman's comment below. [1] (I was shocked too.) iwantmyname [2] is great and supports .io registrations, but you'll pay a little extra for the clean interface. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085850 [2] http://iwantmyname.com http://iwantmyname.com
arn 14y ago
Still hoping/waiting for some sort of two-factor authentication at Namecheap. They don't offer it yet. They suggested they were looking into it in 2011, but nothing yet. GoDaddy offers it. :)
- tamar 14y ago
  It'll be ready soon.
ameen 14y ago
Not many know about http://www.badger.com http://www.badger.com. What I love them is that they're a no-frills registrar. Been pretty happy with them. P.S. Most of their front-end code is on Github.
omervk 14y ago
I'll just put this here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/39285063264/namecheap-com-domain-name-registrar-they-sent http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/39285063264/namecheap-com...
- tamar 14y ago
  Hey omer - I'm Namecheap's community manager and just want to clarify some things: I investigated this as soon as it was brought to our attention a few weeks ago. First, this is NOT Namecheap's control panel. This is Kayako, our support system, and only is created when one does not have a Namecheap account. Therefore, your account data on Namecheap is completely secure. Second, as soon as we were alerted to this being an issue, I brought it to Kayako's attention. They replied and told us that the information is stored in a hash. More info in these tweets: https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288304914151661568 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288304914151661568 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288305161737220096 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288305161737220096 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288306260644880384 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288306260644880384 We value customer privacy and security and hope that Kayako will resolve this as soon as possible.
lucian1900 14y ago
There are other good registrars. I use Gandi.

58 points by ted0 14y ago

electrotype 14y ago

How much will be the renewal fees?

dangrossman 14y ago
$10.69/year for .com without a coupon. It's a fair price for working with a good company that's stood up for its customers in court, whereas a certain top-selling budget registrar frequently does the opposite. http://www.namecheap.com/domains/domain-pricing.aspx http://www.namecheap.com/domains/domain-pricing.aspx

kylemaxwell 14y ago

I still have a domain or two on GoDaddy that I keep meaning to move. This is the impetus I needed, I think.

benesch 14y ago
Namecheap is a decent registrar, and I'm glad to see they support a free and open internet. But if you want a good registrar: [1] https://iwantmyname.com https://iwantmyname.com [2] http://www.gandi.net http://www.gandi.net iwantmyname has a refreshingly clean interface and absolutely no frills. Register a domain (tons of TLDs), set DNS. Done. gandi claims it's a "no bullshit" registrar. More features, like auto-setup of vanity nameservers, but less focused on domains. Both better than all the alternatives. You pay ~$5/year extra for the lack of features (how ironic), but it's well worth it. No intrusive interstitial ads, no sad excuses for DNS managers, no cluttered control panels, and no constant upsell attempts.
- sgdesign 14y ago
  What about Hover? I've been hearing good things about it. [1] http://hover.com http://hover.com
- dangrossman 14y ago
  Gandi is a little too good for those of us running anything other than a comment-free religious blog. The contract you agree to when purchasing a domain legally binds you to observe, uphold, and enforce on your visitors a code of ethics. That code involves, among other things, fighting "deviant uses of the internet" and "protecting public order and good moral standards". That's just the beginning of your extensive moral policing duties should you not want to give Gandi the right to steal your domain from you at any time. Good luck explaining that your post about hacking on a Raspberry Pi is not the type of hacking they prohibit you from discussing using a domain you purchased from them. There's virtually no way to run a forum, blog with open comments, or anything else enabling user-generated content without breaching your contract. I'm not making this up. I think their "no bullshit" policy is marketing bullshit considering the actual stuff they put in their TOS. The terms are ridiculous for the service they're providing -- commodity domain registration, which is the updating of tiny records in a database at Verisign. Read it yourself: https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pdf https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN....
  - benesch 14y ago
    While in practice I don't think it'd be much of an issue, that's really scary. Thanks for pointing that out.

subsystem 14y ago

Would love to switch, but for some reason they don't allow whois privacy on .ws domains, unlike a number of other registrars.

paulgb 14y ago

Namecheap is still a good registrar (I've been with them for nearly 7 years), but they've gone downhill a little lately. I see more ads than I used to when I go to change a DNS setting, including ones that look like application alerts but are really ads for hosting or SSL certificates.

derefr 14y ago
I had the same experience with Namecheap--I frequently have to change my records, but it was a deep dive past a lot of layers of fluff to get to that part of the control panel each time I wanted to do it. Oddly enough, though, the process became a lot more pleasant when I began using CloudFlare, purely as a side-effect: my domains are still registered with Namecheap, but since CloudFlare requires you to host your DNS records through them to do their magic (I grumbled at the time, I admit), you do all your little zone-record edits through their DNS control panel instead. And it's a nice control panel. Now I only have to deal with Namecheap when I actually need to renew/buy/transfer something, which seems about right.

codequickly 14y ago

I've transferred about half of my domains from godaddy to namecheap at the end of last year. It looks like I have a great excuse to transfer the rest of them now.

corford 14y ago

Damn. I just moved 4 domains to them earlier today, would have waited if I'd had known about this. In case it's useful for anyone else, I moved them because they're currently running a promo for transferred domains where they'll throw in a years whois privacy for free and a discounted SSL cert.

tedivm 14y ago
You could always donate two to six dollars to the EFF directly for the same effect- or round up to $10 just to one up them.

rmccue 14y ago

Unfortunately, doesn't include .io domains. Anyone know a good place that handles those?

colmvp 14y ago
I personally like: https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/
- benesch 14y ago
  See dangrossman's comment below. [1] (I was shocked too.) iwantmyname [2] is great and supports .io registrations, but you'll pay a little extra for the clean interface. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085850 [2] http://iwantmyname.com http://iwantmyname.com

arn 14y ago

Still hoping/waiting for some sort of two-factor authentication at Namecheap. They don't offer it yet. They suggested they were looking into it in 2011, but nothing yet. GoDaddy offers it. :)

tamar 14y ago
It'll be ready soon.

ameen 14y ago

Not many know about http://www.badger.com http://www.badger.com. What I love them is that they're a no-frills registrar. Been pretty happy with them. P.S. Most of their front-end code is on Github.

omervk 14y ago

I'll just put this here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/39285063264/namecheap-com-domain-name-registrar-they-sent http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/39285063264/namecheap-com...

tamar 14y ago
Hey omer - I'm Namecheap's community manager and just want to clarify some things: I investigated this as soon as it was brought to our attention a few weeks ago. First, this is NOT Namecheap's control panel. This is Kayako, our support system, and only is created when one does not have a Namecheap account. Therefore, your account data on Namecheap is completely secure. Second, as soon as we were alerted to this being an issue, I brought it to Kayako's attention. They replied and told us that the information is stored in a hash. More info in these tweets: https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288304914151661568 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288304914151661568 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288305161737220096 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288305161737220096 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288306260644880384 https://twitter.com/Kayako/status/288306260644880384 We value customer privacy and security and hope that Kayako will resolve this as soon as possible.

lucian1900 14y ago

There are other good registrars. I use Gandi.