I've used Dynadot for many years -- no BS, no upsell, reliable, easy to use. Also gandi.net for certain TLDs that Dynadot doesn't cover.
Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
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Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#42I took Paul Graham's advice a number of years ago and went with EasyDNS:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150565
And I think it's also a good idea to use separate hosting companies and registrars.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#43Porkbun - cheap, fast and support is quick to reply. AFAIK their policy is to charge $1 above the cost price for the domain. Free whois protection as well. Interface is fairly intuitive and as a beginner at the time, they answered all of my questions to the degree of detail I needed.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#44I’m surprised no one has mentioned uniregistry. Their interface is great and they offer both DNS and private registration for free.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#45I use Namecheap to register my domains and Google Cloud Platform to host my DNS.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#46joker.com - it is a Swiss company, and presumably would be harder to have my domains taken away than if it were a US company (not that I am expecting any such thing! but...). No tricks on pricing, the UI is decent but could be better organized, offer easy registration of just about any TLD, and they offer 2FA.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#47Google domains. Very simple to use and good integration with blogger.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#48Namesilo for the following reasons: (1) pricing does not change (goes lower once you hit 50+); (2) free privacy and (3) free 100 email forwarding per domain. Have not tested their DNS yet.
For hosting, you guys really need to get on DigitalOcean instead of doing the shared hosting. For $5/mo, you can put 10,000 domains/websites there with Letsencrypt (free SSL) instead of paying $5/mo/domain
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#49Surprised that there has only been a couple of mentions of Namesilo. Cheap, straightforward/easy interface, but still plenty of options. Don't think there is any cheaper reputable registrar is there?
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#50I'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.
+2 for namecheap. After an unbelievably horrid experience with 1and1 I switched over to NC and their support has been simply a breath of fresh air. Fast support, knowledgeable reps, everything (usually) works, at a good price.
Pry NC out of my cold dead hands...