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Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by amrit_b »

oneJob wrote: post #2

Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…

I am using iwantmyname for .io domains. They are charging 59 USD per year. Gandi.net is charging $35 only! Will transfer the domain soon.. Thanks for the info!

Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by KingMob »

oneJob wrote: post #2

Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…

I've used Gandi, and they're ok. I can't tell if it's just my experience, or some weird issue with using American CCs with a French company, but I tend to have a lot of issues setting up automatic payment for renewal. It essentially means I have to manually pay every few months, which is annoying.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by archimedespi »

Just don't use GoDaddy. Just NO. They've been way overcharging people forever, and their services suck. The two registrars I'd recommend are Namecheap and Google Domains.

Yes, Namecheap's site is slow. But their support has been great and they're cheap. (also they have really cheap $1/year whois privacy)

Google Domains is nice too, almost everything is $12/year.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by Diti »

sinatra wrote: post #11

If you trust Google, you can consider https://domains.google.com/registrar too. It's fairly straight-forward, no nickel and dime, you get private registration for free, and I am quite confident that it'll be hard for someone to use social engineering to steal my domain from there.

It is restricted to US citizens only.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by jordanpg »

pavlov wrote: post #27

For some domains like .io, it's possible and convenient to buy domains from the TLD registrar directly [1]. No need to involve a reseller in the middle. Otherwise I like EuroDNS [2]. They have decent service and a pretty good web UI overall, compared to some of the other companies. [1] https://www.nic.io [2] https://www.eurodns.com

What are the other "domain[s] like .io"?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

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Post by curiousfab »

My domains are at Gandi and Hetzner. I do my own DNS with three VPSs in three physical locations on two continents.

Gandi and Hetzner both offer 2FA to secure your domains, this is something I find very important, especially with one of my domains having gained quite a value to make it interesting enough a target for a possible theft, and another being so dear to me after more than a decade of use, that I couldn't do without it any more :)

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