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Shameless plug. My new startup Coffee & Domains does domain registration, free private whois, and DNS control for $10 per year. https://www.coffeeanddomains.com
Any plans to allow purchases from Non-US countries? I just tried to buy a domain but can't fill out the form.
Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?
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What's cheaper than GoDaddy? All my .com and .net domains end up costing me $7.49. I'd love to know...
Cheap until you get roped into an auto-renewing thing with 3x the price you first paid. Why support a company like that? It's so slimy. Your cheap domains are effectively subsidized by GoDaddy preying on others.
I'd really like to switch, but one of these alternatives are going to need to really compete on price.
I never understood why GoDaddy has such a monopoly-like status - even in the startup scene. I've only used their services once (because someone transfered a domain to me and prefered to do this as GoDaddy-internal transfer), but the first thing I did was transfering the domain to another registrar (the one that I typically also use for my other domains). Reasons why I wouldn't use GoDaddy: GoDaddy is not really one o…
What's cheaper than GoDaddy? All my .com and .net domains end up costing me $7.49. I'd love to know...
If you're not hosting with them, then you're doing it right.
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I can't recommend DNSimple enough ( http://dnsimple.com ). Pretty straight forward pricing, nice one-click integration with stuff like Google Apps and they'll even give you a discount if you transfer domains off GoDaddy.
Looks nice, but it seems to have a significant price premium over GoDaddy (seems to be $14/domain/year + $120/year for DNS). Is the benefit worth the premium?
After dealing with registrars for a long time I've realized that paying extra $5 per domain per year is totally worth it if you don't have to deal with companies like GoDaddy.
I'm not familiar with the Amazon service, but if it's $1 per domain per month then you'd save $0.7 for every domain using DNSimple.
EDIT: I should link to another HN discussion on the subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753471. One comment that resonates by jbyers: "Read your registrar's terms. See if you still want to save that $6 a year".
The same thing happened with a Network Solutions hosting plan I had. They auto-renewed me when I had over one month before renewal. Their service had been horrible on Drupal sites. Just the DNS resolution to my hosting account was taking 2-3 seconds. I enlisted an up-time monitoring service and found that my site was down frequently even while I was paying for this renewal I did not want. Shame such a dominant compan…
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Looks nice, but it seems to have a significant price premium over GoDaddy (seems to be $14/domain/year + $120/year for DNS). Is the benefit worth the premium?
I'm not sure how many domains you handle, but in my case I have less than 10 domains so I pay $36 yearly + 8 per domain transfer from GoDaddy (or $14 as you mentioned). With one click you get stuff like Google Apps or Heroku setup for you. After dealing with registrars for a long time I've realized that paying extra $5 per domain per year is totally worth it if you don't have to deal with companies like GoDaddy. I'm…
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Are there any phones out there that can't be at least updated to Froyo now, whether officially or not? If you're geeky enough to want your own ssl cert then you're geeky enough to root your phone & install CyanogenMod.
I can't update my users' phones for them. Just pointing out that users stuck on older versions of Android, for whatever reason, may run into problems with the free cert. In the mail client, it will work if "TLS (if available)" is checked, but that's a departure from what other mail clients mean by that option.
Pay the protection money, get a string of bits which cost the vendor nothing to produce. Or choose between zero security or users' browsers whining about "self-signed certificate" every time they visit your site.