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Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

#51
Regardless of with whom, I recommend not using the same service you host with or use for development. Don't place yourself in the position to be held hostage -- whether deliberately or through neglect.

Some services allow you to designate another account as an "administrator" without giving up your control over the domain's ownership.

That said, don't forget to renew your registration! You are going to want to whitelist messages from whomever you register with.

This may vary with a more substantial presence and formalized agreements beyond random user account boilerplate.

Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I concur. Gandi.net has excellent support, predictable pricing, and a reasonably good admin interface. Also, their email reminders (e.g. to renew a domain or verify information) are pretty much plain text and straight to the point, which is all I want.

I'm a Gandi user and but I hate that they insist on leaving my email address in the WHOIS data.

I think that's only certain domain suffixes?

.com domains seem to be obfuscated okay these days...

e.g. https://v4.gandi.net/whois/details?search=davewasthere.com&s...

Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

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post #30

I'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…

Ha! I too am being charged for Route 53 for what, I have no idea. Very confusing service.

Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

#57

Namesilo 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

with hosting I agree, but I'd recommend vultr, so you can run openBSD :)

Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

#59
I live and work in China, so I use Aliyun, which is Alibaba's cloud arm, similar to what AWS is for Amazon. Aliyun itself bought 万网 (Net.cn aka HiChina) in 2013, and it's still a bit fractured, but works well enough.

For .com domains, it's ¥55 (~$8.8) per year with ¥20 discount for the first year (surprisingly transparent). One of the great things is the ability to pay ¥676 (~$107) for 10 years and forget about it.

For .cn domains, it's just ¥29 per year (also -¥20 first year), but you need to through the verification procedure to be able to use it, which requires a Chinese citizen or Chinese company credentials.

Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Gandi user and but I hate that they insist on leaving my email address in the WHOIS data.

I think that's only certain domain suffixes? .com domains seem to be obfuscated okay these days... e.g. https://v4.gandi.net/whois/details?search=davewasthere.com&s...

Hmmm, was the service updated?

I couldn't get my emails obfuscated on .com and .io addresses about 2~3 years ago. Just managed to get it done.

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