What do you use for a domain registrar?
Since Google Domains is shutting down, I am looking for a new place to transfer my domains. What are others using for domain registration?
Since Google Domains is shutting down, I am looking for a new place to transfer my domains. What are others using for domain registration?
eosph, I’m about to migrate everything from Gandi to porkbun. So far the UI has been really good.
sporez, Current favorite and where most of my domains reside is Porkbun. Secondary choice would be cloudflare.
xtremeownage, Cloudflare currently.
Have used Google, Amazon, namecheap too.
Just. Don’t use godaddy
Yewb, Dreamhost is really great
Hanhula, Namesilo. Genuinely cheap, and fantastic service every time I've needed to ask something. Plus: free privacy!
ogg42, AWS all the way for DNS and registration.
Nomecks, Same. I use AWS since I'm using AWS for everything else, and I can easily script it all to work together.
PupBiru, (edited ) my go-to for anything they support is porkbun: they’re cheap, reliable, and technically competent
for backup for domains they don’t cover, 101domain has a huge selection
for actual DNS hosting, i use cloudflare (migrating from dnsimple) but also wouldn’t be against route53
Maximilious, I've been using namecheap for years and redirect DNS through cloudflare. I think my yearly renewal is around $25. I've been thinking of transferring to cloudflare, but their pricing model is really expensive for their other products and don't really want to feel pigeonholed if my price gets inflated above what I already pay.
redxef, OVH. With existing certbot integrations, a well documented API and not being too expensive I'm quiet happy with it.
RotaryKeyboard, I like having money, so I use porkbun.com.
PupBiru, +1 for porkbun! i don’t have a bad word to say about them: cheap, reliable, technically competent
I_Miss_Daniel, I use https://synergywholesale.com/domain-names/ in Australia, but I'm a reseller so I get pretty good rates.
dan, I like gandi.net. Their UI is pretty inoffensive.
FredOnline, Recently their prices have skyrocketed, Gandi are now poor value for money.
dan, Oh really? That's a shame. Do you have a better alternative?
FredOnline, The majority of my domains were with Gandi, they're now with Porkbun.
Also, check out this link for prices/offers, etc:
StuffToWrite, Thanks for that website, really useful!
Didn’t know this existed
chameleon, I've been happy with Gandi but their future looks bleak. Gandi was bought by Total Webhosting Solutions/now your.online a couple of months back, which is pretty bad news. They've been purchasing Dutch companies and increasing prices while letting their services turn to shit for a while now. The raised prices came in a few weeks ago, we've yet to see the services turn to shit but I am extremely confident it will happen.
Gandi is just the first international purchase by TWS, so not many people know it, and there are few relevant references on the English-speaking web as most of this was localized to the Netherlands. You'd have to search on Dutch tech news sources like tweakers.net and use some translation tool to find anything meaningful.
dan, Ah that's disappointing, I've been a pretty happy (occasional) user for years. Enshittification hits everything eventually :(
smokinjoe, Ahh damn it google. Why do I ever trust any of their products?
blivet, Yeah, I have a couple of domains registered with Google, and I remember people saying that it was likely they would shut down the service the way they have killed so many other products after people started to rely on them. At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if they canned Gmail.
Kurt, Porkbun worked well for a newb like me.
Dirk, I use selfhost.de (they register domains via united-domains for you) who are specialized on self-hosting in Germany and offer a wide variety of options on how to connect a domain using dynamic DNS.
sunaurus, Lately I've been registering domains directly at Cloudflare. If you're a Cloudflare user anyway then it's super convenient!
The only downside is that they don't support less popular TLDs (yet).
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