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Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by sandy_mountains » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 12:31 AM UTC

rogerkirkness wrote: post #2

Public service announcement after doing my own research: if you use Google Cloud, you can move to GCP Cloud Domains, which seems like it will still exist.

Where did you see that? I’ve been trying to figure out whether Google Cloud Domains is impacted by this change myself.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by zhte415 » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 12:34 AM UTC

porkbun.com does what you want.

I noted several in the recent Gandi thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 I was noting principally European-based registrars:

inwx.de (DE)

BookMyName.com (FR - LOL modern interface, but part of Scaleway)

netim.com (FR)

freethought.uk (UK)

https://www.nic.ch/registrars (CH, a list of Swiss registrars)

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by menshiki » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:14 AM UTC

Cloudflare Registrar has the best prices since they literally don't make any money on selling domains. They also fulfill all your requirements. I recently transferred my domain from Hover to Cloudflare. No issues and I can save some money. Hover is fine but their prices have been getting more and more expensive.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by menshiki » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:16 AM UTC

pfooti wrote: post #6

i like hover.

Had a domain with them for 2-3 years, every year they rise the price by $1-2.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by guraf » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:54 AM UTC

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #10

I have experience with porkbun and namecheap. I recommend porkbun. Mostly because they have the best prices and they work. Namecheap works, but the renewal prices get jacked up and I don't appreciate it. In addition to that, I remember reading here on HN about namecheap screwing with someone's DNS records and blocking/banning someone because a twitter user complained about the registrant being "problematic" or someth…

Namecheap is known to drop "problematic" users without notice and their website is filled with dark patterns.

I was banned with no explanation around the time they banned all Russians customers. I have no ties with the country but I have a Russia first name so I have to wonder...

I have no idea why people keep recommending them around here.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by jameshiew » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 6:48 AM UTC

menshiki wrote: post #13

Cloudflare Registrar has the best prices since they literally don't make any money on selling domains. They also fulfill all your requirements. I recently transferred my domain from Hover to Cloudflare. No issues and I can save some money. Hover is fine but their prices have been getting more and more expensive.

Cloudflare is straightforward to use but watch out, they don’t let you use custom nameservers, which is very unusual for a domain registrar. As great as Cloudflare’s nameservers are, this was a dealbreaker for me and I eventually moved all my domains off of there.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for a New Domain Registrar?

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Post by jameshiew » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 6:54 AM UTC

ehPReth wrote: post #5

Thoughts on Cloudflare?

Great but only so long as you want to use their nameservers. I had a domain with them that I wanted to use with AWS Route 53 nameservers which I was unable to - then I had to wait the standard ~60 days before I could transfer it out which caused a headache in the meantime.