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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?
#72I registered it here and there over the years. My first registrar was a local german firm, they were a bit on the cheaper side in both features and price. Atm I'm moving to OVH domains, which are sometimes a tad more expensive but I want everything under one roof and OVH is european + offers an API that is somewhat widely supported.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#73GoDaddy has improved significantly over the last few years. It's nice to have everything in one place.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#74I found Hetzner's domain robot to be easy to use and cheap:
https://www.hetzner.com/registrationrobot
The major downside is the limited range of TLD's it allows you to register: .de, .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .eu and .at (other domains are available through Hetzner's normal webshop)
With domain robot have full control over handles, name server entries, auth codes, etc. Annual fees are low (from EUR 3.28 to EUR 12.90) and don't increase year over year. The only additional cost are if you use their name servers (0.50 Euro/year).
Automation is only available through email interface.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#75GoDaddy has improved significantly over the last few years. It's nice to have everything in one place.
Never, ever, ever, ever again. I'll make sure my great grandchildren will know better than to ever get entangled with GoDaddy. I'm not going to tell my whole story but the tl;dr is their whole existence revolves around upselling, hard-selling, and outright deceiving, all to extract max dollars from you.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#76Gandi & DNSimple.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#77I'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…
Also a big fan of Namecheap.
I too used Gandi at some point, but had an issue which led to a lot of BS. In short, and while not their fault, my credit card expired and that caused a few domains (5 or 6 -- all related) to go into quarantine. It was bad timing.
While their fee for registering the domains was not that high, getting them out of quarantine would have cost me $50 or 75 per domain. I transferred them out to IWantMyName (a NZ registrar, great service + works really well) _without_ having to pay any quarantine fees and just renewed them there for a year. Gandi refused to waive the quarantine fee saying "it was impossible", which was BS. My credit card had expired two days before.
I get that nothing is for free in this world, but if it would've been me in their situation, I would have waived the fee on this one occasion. Years later, I still retain those domains through IWMN.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#78Currently I use namecheap for their simplicity and speed yet they have all the options if you need them. Tried GoDaddy and went away screaming since they have some super shady practices. Willing to try Google Domains since I use GCP a lot but its not available to me as of now.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#79Internet.bs for their low prices and simple email notifications of expiry dates.
Re: Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
#80Earlier 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...
Anecdotally, I've ran into a lot of stuff over the years that I've needed namecheap's support with and they'll stay with you on a live chat session as long as it takes to make sure everything is getting resolved.