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

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Post by pfg »

Cacti wrote: post #56
_diyu wrote: 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.

There's a fee of $0.50 per hosted zone and month for Route 53, in addition to the $0.40 per million queries. This is optional if you don't want to use Route 53 for DNS, so you can still use a free option like Cloudflare instead.

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

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Post by alexandernst »

SlowBro wrote: post #50
kotrunga wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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...

I wouldn’t go with namecheap, this is why: https://medium.com/@alexandernst/from-successful-to-zero-tha...

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

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Post by sudders »

kawera wrote: post #7

Gandi.net for the last 14 years. Not the cheapest but good service and no upsell.

I use gandi as well for all my domains (about 100). But ever since they switched to the new v5 platform. I've been getting very inconsistent problems. I had to migrate all the domains to the new platform, but every so often I find some domains that haven't been migrated. All on the same account with different handles, which makes it hard to find the ones that haven't been migrated

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

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Post by jsnell »

SenHeng wrote: post #60
davewasthere wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's probably due to the GDPR. My understanding is that a lot of registrars are removing all personal information from WHOIS due to GDPR concerns.

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

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Post by tmikaeld »

alexandernst wrote: post #62
SlowBro wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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...

I wouldn’t go with namecheap, this is why: https://medium.com/@alexandernst/from-successful-to-zero-tha...

Thanks, this is not the first such story I've read. Should be noted though that we have had similar issues with country registrar's. Especially Germany that deny certain name servers for no reason

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

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Post by 15characterslon »

https://www.inwx.com. I am using them for about 5-10 years now (had ~30 different domains over time) and I was never disappointed.

- Pricing is fair and uncomplicated. https://www.inwx.com/en/domain/pricelist

- Lots of extra features, e.g. whois privacy, glue records.

- DNS hosting (in case you need it) is included, DNS servers are located in 5 different datacenters. (Although I prefer Cloudflare because they are the fastest according to https://www.dnsperf.com .)

- You have full control over your domain. It's even possible to update tech-c and zone-c (many domain providers do not allow this).

- You can manage everything through their web interface and an API. (Many domain providers I've had to use require you to contact support for things like custom name servers, domain transfer, change of domain contacts, and so on, which is completely insane.)

The only exception I've found is DNSSEC, if you want to use it you need to contact support and send them your values.

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

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Post by SlowBro »

alexandernst wrote: post #62
SlowBro wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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...

I wouldn’t go with namecheap, this is why: https://medium.com/@alexandernst/from-successful-to-zero-tha...

I can imagine painful story can be told about every company out there. No one gives perfect service. No one.

That said, who is recommended instead?

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