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I'm using http://iwantmyname.com for http://gitignore.io and they have been great. They update their DNS records very quickly and I haven't had any problems with their service and right now they are $49.
Also using iwantmyname. Happiest I've ever been with a registrar.
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Do they offer proper DNS services?
I moved all of my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. I host my own DNS. Recently, I decided to take a stab at implementing DNSSEC, but one condition is that your registrar must support it[1], and Namecheap doesn't[2]. I'm in no rush, but it's a little disappointing. I have no idea if DNSSEC is an option when Namecheap hosts your DNS. They've also only recently added support for IPv6 glue records. Nonetheless, I'm hap…
Bonus points if you include some information that's actually actionable for those of us who host our own DNS servers but aren't DNS experts.
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Maybe that's the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn't have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight "deviant uses of the internet" to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi's service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it we…
I really appreciate you posting this information. I had considered Gandi in the past and would not have read their ToS; I'll stay away now. As for our friend jjblue, you can safely ignore his citation trolling. The rest of us appreciate the warning. There's no point in waiting for victim #1 before telling your friends about danger. Thanks again!
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I really appreciate you posting this information. I had considered Gandi in the past and would not have read their ToS; I'll stay away now. As for our friend jjblue, you can safely ignore his citation trolling. The rest of us appreciate the warning. There's no point in waiting for victim #1 before telling your friends about danger. Thanks again!
Deviant uses is defined as "spamming, phishing, hacking, cracking, or attempts at hacking or cracking". That's a pretty standard ToS right?
That's all from section 3.3 of the agreement. Making your ownership of your domain name contingent upon active monitoring and censorship to uphold ambiguous "moral standards" of a 3rd party is NOT a standard registrar ToS.
Competitor to namecheap here. [1] [2] We don't offer .io domains. Nor do we offer any of the TLD's that seem to be popular with some startups. Even though we could make money selling them. Like our competitors do. Although popular (with startups) they aren't mainstream with the public. If you become successful you will just end up buying (at a much higher price) the .com equivalent. Or end up having misdirected mail…
>My strong advice is to stay away from anything but .com for your startup. If you make it big enough to have to buy the .com from the current owner, then you are probably going to be able to buy it. When I discovered that new domains cost about 2 packs of cigarettes, I became a compulsive domain buyer. If the .com for my crazy idea isn't available, then I try .co, then basically whatever I can find. I use a combinati…
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Namecheap is an accredited domain registrar, they started out as an eNom reseller and still maintains that account.
They still register all of their domains through eNom.