Hover.com, great user interface with no bloated advertisements. Moved there from GoDaddy years ago.
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#32I use iwantmyname for the reasons mentioned by the others. I originally met a bunch of the team at a hackathon in Wellington, New Zealand which is where they're based. They're a nice lot with no upsell and reliable service. As mentioned in another comment, they focus on doing on thing well which is nice.
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#33hover.com, super simple and easy to use.
And it's tucows! Great interface, great company. Private registration by default.
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#34Currently use Namesilo.com for free Whois privacy. I used to use Namecheap but they charged extra for Whoisguard, and I wasn't happy that they pulled the Daily Stormer (yes I hate Nazis, but IMO censorship should be handled by court orders not CEO's opinions.) Used Gandi.net back in the day, had no complaints other than the price.
I switched from Namecheap to Namesilo and been very happy - same solid price all the time, plus included free guard.
If a disgruntled employee knows your domain name, they can call Namecheap and claim its theirs. I had such trouble at one of my companies - while they didn't get a hold of the domain, upon validating company name, address and domain name, Namecheap opened the ticket for them and kept our domain on hold for 30 days before the situation got resolved. They did not shut it down, but we were unable to access it or change any DNS records. From my understanding, anyone upset at you enough can contact them and claim the domain is theirs and you stole it from them. That experience made me move out to Namesilo for USA domains, and Marcaria for international.
Source: I'm holding about 50 domains in general since circa 1999.
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#35InterNIC only allows registration through Network Solutions. I don't understand the question?
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#36I use Dreamhost for almost all of my domains. I have been hosting with them since 2003 and for simple hosting needs they have been just what I need, no hassle, no attempts to sell me other products I don't need, and reasonably responsive tech support in the (pretty rare) cases when I've needed it. Based on that hosting experience I started moving my registrations to them as well (mainly from GoDaddy but a few from Ne…
I have also been with Dreamhost for years and register domains and use shared hosting with them for a few websites. I have nothing but good things to say and I think it's really cool that they are Employee Owned.
Ten or so years ago when I was in high school and I put up a PHP web proxy at Dreamhost so that I could browse blocked sites on the school desktops. It ended up on some web proxy list and got flooded with traffic. I got the most kind email for such a blatant ToS violation:
> I've had to disable your domain due to it almost crashing the server because someone was hammering the proxy you put up there. We do not permit public proxy scripts on shared webservers; please remove the software. You may reenable the domain with non-proxy content if you wish.
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#37eNom
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#38eNom (although prices have been slowly climbing over the years but I don't think that's unique to them specifically)
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#39namecheap. switched during last the major godaddy fiasco. cheap enough, easy enough.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#40I've used a few registrars over the years in different ways. About 10 years ago I used pair.com because they also had PHP hosting and that's all I knew at the time. I did little with them. I think for a very brief period I actually used godaddy for one or two domains. A few years later I used gandi.net because they were "no BS" domain name registration, which I think was a direct reaction to having a hard time using…
+1 for namecheap.