Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by scrrr » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:19 AM UTC

Hm I have a question: What would it take to register the domain myself, without going through goDaddy and others?

Can't one set up a DNS-Server and start propagating records, while perhaps informing the authority that you are using a (previously available) domain now?

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by zandor » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:25 AM UTC

I'm very happy using http://dyndns.com for a couple of my domains.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by Xuzz » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:27 AM UTC

seldo wrote: post #54

waratuman wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

again, I love namecheap. All domains are with them

I've been using them for well over a decade. No nonsense, low prices, interface miles better than GoDaddy.

Yet another NameCheap recommendation. Pretty awesome, and a usable -- if ugly -- UI.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by sireat » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:29 AM UTC

dolinsky wrote: post #37

sahillavingia wrote: post #2

http://godaddy.com/ - Cheap (esp. for just a year, renewals are a bit more) but their interface sucks. http://namecheap.com/ - Almost as cheap, and has a much better interface. Those are the two I use exclusively, minus some for ccTLD-specific domains.

A very important reason why I will continue to use namecheap... when a domain of mine expired, it cost me nothing to recover it via namecheap. I had a similar experience with a domain I had registered with godaddy expiring and it cost me $90 for the same recovery of a domain name. I transferred my remaining domains that I had on godaddy to namecheap and haven't looked back.

Similarly, I had some domains which had expired for 2 days, and Namecheap let me renew them at no charge. I am pretty sure at GoDaddy the same thing would have cost at least $10 extra(wouldn't surprise if it is actually $90).

On the other hand, GoDaddy renewals are roughly $3 cheaper than Namecheap, because many GoDaddy coupons work for renewals, but I can never find good coupons for Namecheap renewals.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by Jim_Neath » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:52 AM UTC

I've been using namecheap.com for about 7 years and not once have I had an issue with them.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by zumda » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 8:56 AM UTC

trampsymphony wrote: post #5

Gandi.net is my favorite. Decent prices, big selection of ccTLDs, great UI.

+1 for Gandi. Great UI, easy to configure, and no problems until now.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by ahemphill » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:28 AM UTC

fakelvis wrote: post #69

Any suggestions for registrars of domains that aren't .com/.co.uk/.net/etc.? I notice that a couple of those mentioned (Namecheap.com, Name.com and Gandi.net) offer this service, but is there a specialist registrar anywhere, or are these good enough? (I'm looking to register a number of .nl domains and have no idea where to look in terms of quality registrars.)

http://domainsite.com is my go-to for many ccTLDs.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by bl4k » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:28 AM UTC

lsc wrote: post #61

bl4k wrote: post #13

http://joker.com or enom.com for domains http://easydns.com for DNS (don't be cheap on DNS - most that registrars offer is slow/cheap/bad/down)

I've been using joker.com since the first .com crash, and they've been a reliable, no-nonsense host the entire time. it's about $12 a year per .com or .net, but as I'm not a domainer, the extra few bucks doesn't matter much. what I like is that they don't try to spend a lot of effort up selling you. I can go on their website and do something and be reasonably assured I won't be incurring extra charges.

Same - I have been using the joker + easydns combo for as long as I can remember with both my own projects and client projects. Across all of that usage I have never had a problem.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by auxbuss » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:30 AM UTC

trampsymphony wrote: post #5

Gandi.net is my favorite. Decent prices, big selection of ccTLDs, great UI.

I bought a domain from gandi.net recently and was very impressed with its ease of use and the speed that changes occurred. All I wanted to do was point the domain at a linode instance and everything was live within minutes. Very fast propagation. Early days, but impressed so far.

Re: Ask HN: recommendations for domain registrars

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Post by trizk » Thu, Oct 07, 2010, 9:31 AM UTC

Personally I prefer Godaddy. The interface needs some work but I have found that by using them I get really low propagation delays. Their service is pretty flexible facilitating stuff like privacy and configuring your domains to host their own nameservers.