Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by herbst » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 9:58 AM UTC

mariushn wrote: post #81

_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…

gandi.net provides email hosting too, 5 users, included in price. Most other registrars, including namecheap, charge extra.

Namecheap does free forwarding tho. Something some others are missing.

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

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Post by herbst » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 10:00 AM UTC

gremlinsinc wrote: post #84

I don't know why so many people love namecheap... Name silo is 8.90/year and it comes with free privacy. Any domain provider who doesn't have free privacy, or a bundle for < $9.00 isn't worth it. I've been w/ namesilo for a few years and they're top-notch, and have a good api as well.

Namecheap does provide free privacy and (i assume you talk. Com) is usually around $9.66 or so.

I agree that their API is horrible tho.

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

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Post by mariushn » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 10:58 AM UTC

herbst wrote: post #101

mariushn wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gandi.net provides email hosting too, 5 users, included in price. Most other registrars, including namecheap, charge extra.

Namecheap does free forwarding tho. Something some others are missing.

Not forwarding. Email hosting. That is, access it over web, POP3, IMAP, send email via SMTP...

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

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Post by dazc » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 3:01 PM UTC

sudders wrote: post #65

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

Totally agree on the new platform - absolutely dreadful.

Otherwise, best I have used - and I've been through all the usual suspects.

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

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Post by ojuara » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

Namecheap. A friend told me that there is really cheap. :P

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

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Post by matthewheath » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

misterhtmlcss wrote: post #95

jsnell wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation, coming into force on May 25th in the EU.

https://www.eugdpr.org for more information.

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

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Post by cyberpip » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 7:27 PM UTC

Surprised no mention of http://www.freenom.com/ yet. Granted, I'd doubt anyone would want to run a business domain off this, but it's great for little projects and personal sites/experiments.

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

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Post by dsacco » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:40 PM UTC

I used to use name.com and iwantmyname.com.

Now I use domains.google because it's simple to manage DNS records, the user interface is very clear and straightforward, and it's automatically integrated with my existing GSuite account.

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

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Post by HelenePhisher » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 3:50 PM UTC

I use OVH for all of my domains because you can register probably any TLD on the planet with them. It is quite cheap as well - and they offer free (minimal) hosting and email forwarders as well. DNSSec and full control of everything.

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

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Post by TaylorGood » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC

pdonis wrote: post #13

I 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…

Second this. I have more than sixty domains held at Dreamhost. Going on my 10th year. Their live chat for support is phenomenal.