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Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#22https://www.bookmyname.com/ is very cheap, they don’t make money, and has a HN friendly website.
I don’t know how is their security track record though.
Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#23iwantmyname.com, because I couldn’t find anywhere else that would sell .ms domains for cheap. Never had a problem with them
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#24I’m actually in the same boat. Looking for a suggestion for a registrar that will 100% respect legal, free speech, and will only take down a domain in response to a legal court order.
That excludes most examples people are providing.
Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#25I've been using Cloudflare, and it has been good so far. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
The only downside is that they don't have top-level domains that other registrars do, but it is worth checking out.
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#26Is there anything wrong with Namecheap? It was the standard option a decade ago. I'm still with them because I never had a reason to switch.
I went to use them today and their page was down. Crazy! First time I’ve seen them down in as many years as I’ve been using them.
Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#27I've been using Cloudflare, and it has been good so far. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ The only downside is that they don't have top-level domains that other registrars do, but it is worth checking out.
I would avoid CloudFlare as non-paying customer. Their free tier limit is 1k domains. Might sound like a lot, but if you run multiple subdomains (e.g. dev, stg, prod) in kubernetes using dynamic domain registration (e.g. external-dns), you'll hit that limit quickly.
To compare a popular service, Route53 (no affiliation) limit is 10k and they won't charge extra if you want to increase the limit, all you need to do is open a support ticket explaining the use case.
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#28Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#29Is there anything wrong with Namecheap? It was the standard option a decade ago. I'm still with them because I never had a reason to switch.
I went to use them today and their page was down. Crazy! First time I’ve seen them down in as many years as I’ve been using them.
I found it so unusual. Sure enough they're reporting an ongoing DDoS attack.
Re: Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
#30I've been using Cloudflare, and it has been good so far. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ The only downside is that they don't have top-level domains that other registrars do, but it is worth checking out.
I would avoid CloudFlare as non-paying customer. Their free tier limit is 1k domains. Might sound like a lot, but if you run multiple subdomains (e.g. dev, stg, prod) in kubernetes using dynamic domain registration (e.g. external-dns), you'll hit that limit quickly. To compare a popular service, Route53 (no affiliation) limit is 10k and they won't charge extra if you want to increase the limit, all you need to do is…
Hmm according to OP "A few years ago I bought two domain names on Epik.com", I doubt he wants to have more than 1k domains. Of course your use case doesn't fit the free-tier of CloudFlare but I wouldn't rule it out for all the other people that just want something that works from a legit company that cares about their users and the internet.