Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
Cloudflare (although they don't cover all the TLDs)
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#12What's a good alternative registrar based in the EU? What an unethical move, they rescind already paid contracts/accounts and the price hike is insane. The went from "no BS" to full of it. I intend to move all my domains. I also paid for the "premium" email service. But it went from 25€ per year to 86€ ! Domains are also getting a price hike and web hosting too. Time to move
I keep recommending iwantmyname, which is not Europe-based (NZ actually), but founded by some guys from Austria. I've been a customer for ten years now, and I haven't seen a nasty ReactJS redesign, or any other BS. Just a good registrar.
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#13What's a good alternative registrar based in the EU? What an unethical move, they rescind already paid contracts/accounts and the price hike is insane. The went from "no BS" to full of it. I intend to move all my domains. I also paid for the "premium" email service. But it went from 25€ per year to 86€ ! Domains are also getting a price hike and web hosting too. Time to move
I've been using OVH for over 10 years and I'm pretty happy with them.
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#14Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
Wedos. I migrated my domains from namecheap due to their problematic setting of glue records for IPv6.
I'd say Wedos is no-bs enough.
I hope referral is not a problem on HN: https://www.wedos.com/?ap=Fy1vRJ
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#15Is there a tangible advantage of using one registrar over the other?
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#16Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
NameSilo
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#17No forewarning, no post on the website, no justification, and the nasty news buried in the middle of unrelated text. It appears designed to deceive. “No bullshit” is no more. https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit That promise is what justified their slightly higher prices. With it broken, I have no reason not to transfer to a less expensive registrar. So that I’ve now done, and Gandi can try to win me back next year.
Existing customers will retain the free service for renewals done for the next month until they shut it down, and even then the cost of the new email service is a fraction of what you pay for Microsofts or Google custom domain emails.
I have a mailbox there for my domain so I hope they can introduce some easy way to just pre-pay for a longer period.
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#18The text in the link was sent to Gandi users via email today, although they purposefully buried the significant domain registration price increases with the GandiMail bs text. The actual price increases are listed here[0]. For example, currently a .com domain can be renewed for $17.75/year (tax inclusive - I personally renewed a .com domain for the maximum of 4 years tonight). After the increase this will be $23.99/y…
.com are $9.73 / year on PorkBun, and they renews at $9.73
Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
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#19Increasing their already high price feel very ironic considering that Laurent Chemla, one of the founder of Ghandi wrote a book (Confessions d'un voleur, literally “confessions of a thief”) in which he admits than domain names registrar are selling trivial stuff with a very high premium:
> Je dois livrer un chiffre qui, s’il n’est pas confidentiel, mérite cependant le détour. […] Le coût réel de l’enregistrement d’un nom dans la base de données mondiale, y compris le coût de fonctionnement d’une telle base, a été évalué en 1999 à... trente cents.
> […] Et parmi ceux que l’ICANN a choisis pour participer à ce jeu, il y a une petite SARL bien française, Gandi, créée pour l’occasion par quatre fous qui ne comprenaient pas que l’on puisse vendre aussi cher un objet somme toute totalement virtuel. Et moi je suis l’un de ces fous qui, depuis plus d’un an maintenant, vend du vent lui aussi. Ce que NSI vend toujours trente-cinq dollars, Gandi le vend douze euros après l’avoir acheté au prix de gros (six dollars) à NSI. Et ça rapporte énormément, de vendre du vent
summary: in 1999, the per-domain cost for a registrar was around $0.3, NSI sold it to its customers around $35, and had to sell it to $6 to its competitors, and Gandi sold it for twice as much, with almost zero expenses on their side.
source: http://www.confessions-voleur.net/confessions.pdf p123-125
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#20Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
PorkBun seems cheaper to me, and I haven't had an issue.