GoDaddy. Not because I agree with their policies, or their constant up-sells, or their spam. But because they are cheap, in my experience have great telephone support, and are the registrar most likely to have directions for setting up custom DNS settings with other sites (simply as a result of their popularity, they tend to be the one that tutorials are written to).
Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
11–20 of 32 posts
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#12I haven't tried the others, but DirectNIC has been fine for me.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#13Uniregistry! Great ui, just ignore the terrible brokers.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#14Amazon Route53 (which is backed by Gandi). Not the cheapest but the convenience of managing my domain in the same place as my DNS and other cloud services and the powerful access control capabilities of AWS make me willing to spend a dollar or two more per domain per year.
Edit: having the domain scriptable / accessible via the AWS API and CLI is a nice feature as well.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#15Uniregistry! Great ui, just ignore the terrible brokers.
I too use Uniregistry, decent price and decent UI. Not sure what you mean by "terrible brokers"? Are you referring to the founders history of domain trading?
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#16GoDaddy. Not because I agree with their policies, or their constant up-sells, or their spam. But because they are cheap, in my experience have great telephone support, and are the registrar most likely to have directions for setting up custom DNS settings with other sites (simply as a result of their popularity, they tend to be the one that tutorials are written to).
+1. For some reason, only GoDaddy can expire all your domains on a specific date (for example 12/31) so that you don't have to renew your domain names at random times. Seems fairly trivial to implement and is a MASSIVE annoyance-saver for customers. For example, pay $12/yr domain expires on 12/31 of this year (instead of 3/4) so maybe on 12/29, you can look at your list of domains and figure out which ones you want to renew.
But Google domains win for the free privacy guard (GoDaddy charges $25/yr for domain & privacy, Google domains is $12/yr)
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#17i and 1 is good
then I park the domain at http://startmydomain.com
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#18Namecheap.
I know buying a domain is not a complex thing nowadays at most registrars, but it was one of the best/smoothest webshop experience I ever had.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#19I quite like Hover. I moved from Namecheap awhile back because of the old Namecheap UI. Only found out later that Hover is owned by Tucows, who also owns Ting, which coincidentally is my data provider of choice, and whom I also love.
Re: Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you prefer?
#20Namecheap. I know buying a domain is not a complex thing nowadays at most registrars, but it was one of the best/smoothest webshop experience I ever had.
Their support is as bad as it gets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347525