iwantmyname.com is great. I've used them for several companies - clean, simple UI, good prices, many TLDs, auto renewal, and helpful support team.
Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#42Interesting that so many recommend Gandi, I wonder if there is some timezone-bias in play. Anyways, you probably should consider actually reading the ToS for the companies you are planning to do business with. I think at least Gandi has fairly vague terms on which they can terminate the service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388928
I'm pretty sure almost every service in existence reserves the right to terminate your service for "fairly vague reasons".
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#43Interesting that so many recommend Gandi, I wonder if there is some timezone-bias in play. Anyways, you probably should consider actually reading the ToS for the companies you are planning to do business with. I think at least Gandi has fairly vague terms on which they can terminate the service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388928
NearlyFreeSpeech.net puts some effort into their libertarian approach:
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse
In the end though, every company is going to reserve the option of termination for any reason:
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET reserves the right at any time and for any reason,
including but not limited to your violation of these TACOS, to limit,
suspend, or terminate your use of the Services and to discard any of your Content.Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#44GoDaddy has had a lot of social engineering scandals, I wouldn't ever do any business with them. Been with namecheap for quite a while, had no issues.
I have used Namecheap for two years. I have had no problems either.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#45I used mydomain.com and namecheap.com. Both worked well. Namecheap has fancy looking front page and terrible looking control panel, but nothing really bad about it, it's usable.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#46namesilo.com -NameSilo is good too.
I have been using them for a while. They don't charge you exorbitant renewal rates like some others do. Fuss free registar.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#47namecheap has been great for me. Don't use GoDaddy they are scum.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#48I used namecheap for a while, they are pretty decent. I switched to https://www.namesilo.com about a year ago because namesilo doesn't charge you extra for domain privacy.
Namesilo keeps pricing very low, simple and straightforward ($8.99/yr for .com). I haven't had any problems with them so far.
Stay far away from GoDaddy, they try and lure you in with discounted pricing then jack up the price on certain features later on. They are constantly trying to up sell you something else and they make transferring your domain away unnecessarily complex. At least that was the case when I last used them.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#49For some domains like .io, it's possible and convenient to buy domains from the TLD registrar directly [1]. No need to involve a reseller in the middle. Otherwise I like EuroDNS [2]. They have decent service and a pretty good web UI overall, compared to some of the other companies. [1] https://www.nic.io [2] https://www.eurodns.com
What are the other "domain[s] like .io"?
Many of the odd national ones like .to, .as, .ac, .sh ...
These are country codes where the state that controls the land doesn't have an interest in managing the domain, so it's been sold to a 3rd party company.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#50Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…
I would never register a domain name with Gandi. They essentially reserve the right to terminate your service if anything on your site is morally upsetting to them. Given most registrars have no policies about what you host on your domain except that they'll comply with court orders, why would you give the right to police the content of your site to Gandi?
Given almost every site has some kind of UCG -- forums, comments, reviews -- it's impossible to guarantee compliance with Gandi's service agreement. Hacker News could not be hosted on their service given the content of some of the discussions here.
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> You acknowledge and accept that, in accordance with Our Ethics the use of any of Gandi services associated to Your Gandi Account:
> * it is expressly forbidden for use in any way that engages or participates in practices that are deviant, abusive, illegal, or prejudicial; and
> * must be appropriate to the age and sensibility of each of the persons that any of the Content is destined for, directly or indirectly, published or made available to via the technical solutions used
> ...
> You acknowledge that the following elements are considered as constituting material breaches of Your contractual obligations:
> * if We are made aware of, or discover that You provide, or are engaged in, in any way, directly or indirectly, through Our services:
> * any provocation or encouragement to commit crimes or offenses, and particularly crimes against humanity or encouragement of racial hatred;
> * activity or Content of racist, xenophobic, or negative character;
> * activity or Content of pedophile character, or that is liable to constitute or be associated with, either directly or indirectly to it;
> * child pornography, or the trivialization of such acts or encouragement of violence, suicide, or the use, production, or distribution of illegal substances, or acts of terrorism;