Google Domains (if you're in the US) or AWS Route 53. They cost about the same ($12/year for most domains, including private registration) but AWS charges extra (about $6/year) if you host your DNS with Route 53 as well.
Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#62Thank you all for your words of wisdom. Appreciated !!
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#63Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$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, comme…
Hi, AJ from Gandi here. To my knowledge, we don't shut down anything unless we are required to by law or there's spamming involved.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#64Noooooo!!!! 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$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…
I too use Gandi, but am not as happy as I used to be with them. I bought a domain from them a while back with private registration; a few weeks later I found out that private registration was not available for that TLD, and my details were publicly visible, making the domain unusable to me. I emailed Gandi, and they told me there was nothing they could do; they were not willing to refund my money, even though their s…
Hi, AJ from Gandi here. Do you have the ticket number from the subject line of the support email? If we made a mistake like that, we should make it right.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#65Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…
I had a terrible recent experience with Gandi, bad enough that after transferring a handful of client domains to them from GoDaddy, I turned around and transferred them to another registrar at my own expense. Gandi support is worse than useless. They have no idea what they're doing, they can only read from a script, and the only way to contact them is by email with a nice long turnaround time. Even the tiny little re…
Hi, AJ from Gandi. That sounds terrible, and not like us at all. Do you think you could provide the ticket number from the subject line of the support email so we can investigate further?
For the record: we can provide a callback upon request, and we have live chat support as well.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#66Noooooo!!!! 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.
Hi, if you were paying through our international payment processor, you should give it another try, as we have a payment processor in the US now.
And if you were paying through our US processor, I'd love to have the support ticket number to look into it, as we're really working to eliminate such payment issues.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure almost every service in existence reserves the right to terminate your service for "fairly vague reasons".
Yet only Gandi explicitly reserves the right to terminate your service for such odd things as discussing hacking, hosting a racist blog comment, or hosting a Keurig coffee maker review that explains how to bypass the K-Cup DRM. Generally, other registrars do not police the content of your domains except to comply with court orders. Gandi's service agreement is very much not boilerplate.
AFAIK it's a translation of the French contract. But we've seen this comment enough times that our legal team is now reviewing it.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, comme…
Hi, AJ from Gandi here. To my knowledge, we don't shut down anything unless we are required to by law or there's spamming involved.
Would you buy a car from a dealer that required you to sign a contract stating they could take your car back if you carry a passenger who says something racist? Would you do so even if they promise they don't enforce that clause, when there's ten other dealers in your town that don't make you sign anything like that?
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#69As a company, we own a lot of domains, so we like to spread the load. We use lots of registrars. Of the major ones, I'd say Namecheap and Gandi are the best. We also use DNSimple who are good but have since moved to "I Want My Name" for the newest ones since they don't require you to upgrade your account the more domains you buy (they price their services into the domain cost instead, which works better for us). All…
Hello from Gandi! Thanks for the recommendation. You should contact our corporate services team, as they might be able to make this happen for you :)
gandi.net/corporate
Re: Ask HN: What is the best recommended domain name registration site?
#70Got all of my domains at https://www.inwx.de/en and couldn't be happier.
Usually, they're even on the cheaper side of the spectrum too and for the one support case i've had with them they've been good and fast to reply.
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