I am planning to register a domain and would love to hear if this group has any recommendations.
Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
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Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#2I use namecheap. Works well for my purposes, but I only have a dozen domains.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#3I recommend GoDaddy with coupon code for cheapest option.
Name.com and NameCheap are great registrars. Their clean user interface, tools and customer service make it worth the little higher price point.
Do NOT register at Register.com, Network Solutions, 1&1 as you will get price gouged and have a generally poorer experience.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#4Switched from Godaddy to Namecheap recently and I'm happy with my decision.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#5Not Godaddy.com. They always try to upsell other services and they have terrible customer service.
My recommendation would be www.brandstack.com. It's awesome and they make the process so simple (as it should be).
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#6Not Godaddy.com. They always try to upsell other services and they have terrible customer service. My recommendation would be www.brandstack.com. It's awesome and they make the process so simple (as it should be).
I'm quite happy with godaddy.com. Yes, the checkout process leans towards a day-glo gauntlet, but it's not that big a deal.
Easy to manage domains, and with one exception from a tech guy who insisted on just making shit up, pleasant helpful customer service.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#7Namesecure.com has worked for me for the past 10 years ;)
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#8Going beyond shady sales practices and bad customer service, I've actually had several registrars (and/or individual registrar employees) try to steal domains from me in the past, In some cases, I had to resort to lawsuits to get my domains back. I own a few thousand domains (no, I'm not a domain squatter), and all of the domains I've had trouble with were very valuable. The worst instance was over a two-letter .com domain. It took almost two years to get it back.
I will not use Register.com, Network Solutions, or InterCosmos Media/DirectNIC ever again. I occasionally use GoDaddy as part of a multi-pronged backorder strategy, but I get my domains out of there as quickly as possible. I will never do straightforward new registrations there again. They did some of the most egregious stuff.
I use several registrars that have been mentioned, but I still haven't found one that I consider both really good and cheap.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#9I've used a number of different registrars, and the one I keep coming back to again and again is DreamHost. I don't know whether you need to host with them to use them to register domains, but ... here's what I love about them: DreamHost makes it really really easy to move your domains away from DreamHost. That sounds counter-intuitive (if they're so good, why would I want to move them away?), but it isn't. When you set up an account with GoDaddy (or other registration services), if you later decide that you want to change your registrar, they have a CRAZY process that you have to go through where you have to get an e-mailed code, that you then have to enter back into a random form at GoDaddy's site, and then you have to do something else, and only THEN do you get the authorization codes to actually move your registration. At DreamHost, those auth codes are one click away. And that's the kind of thing they do: They make it easy to work with them. And if you ever decide you need to move on, they make it easy to stop working with them.
So, yeah. I don't get any kickback or referral for referencing them. But you should absolutely check out http://dreamhost.com.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain registration site would you recommend?
#10Going beyond shady sales practices and bad customer service, I've actually had several registrars (and/or individual registrar employees) try to steal domains from me in the past, In some cases, I had to resort to lawsuits to get my domains back. I own a few thousand domains (no, I'm not a domain squatter), and all of the domains I've had trouble with were very valuable. The worst instance was over a two-letter .com…
I use several registrars that have been mentioned, but I still haven't found one that I consider both really good and cheap.
Do you mind sharing which registrar you've found really good without necessarily being cheap?