GoDaddy has always been like this, too – I remember helping people with downtime caused by their services 20 years ago (good job, business guy who picked them because he liked the soft-core pinup photos). You will never regret moving to a more competent company.
GoDaddy Rant
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#42I've never had a good experience using a registrar's DNS service for production. Point it at Cloudflare or HE or something.
Cloudflare is a registrar these days - if you’re using them for DNS I’d consider doing both to reduce the number of businesses you’re critically dependent on.
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#43GoDaddy has never been a good domain registrar. They have horrible practices. Sell our data. And buy the domain you did a lookup for in their website and try to sell it to you for more money. Not a service to use in so many ways if you are looking for something dependent. Namecheap is good. Their customer support has been reliable in two instances I needed it. And I know you shouldn't use GoDaddy and Google domains.…
Hmmm I have all my domains on Google at the moment... what's the story with not using them?
I don't think google invokes confidence when it comes to customer support. Especially when it comes to occupying a small space on the internet.
Not to mention, I would be linking another thing with google. As an indieweb enthusiast, it just doesn't align with me. I also recommend against them because of privacy.
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#44As others have already written: If you're stuck on GoDaddy, decouple and use a different DNS. Cloudflare is pretty good for that. Adding my vote for Namecheap for all the reasons given. I use their DNS as well, and it has worked well for me. I'm big on self-support, but the few times I've needed help from Namecheap they've been there for me.
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#45I lately got a lot of YouTube ads for GoDaddy and it’s hilarious that their main proposition is to “Make your business look more professional with custom domain emails and website” professional!? Your name is GoDaddy and you want to look professional?
I don't find the name itself to be unprofessional, but rather everything else about the company.
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#46Just point the nameservers to Cloudflare or wherever you are hosting your website.
When it comes time to renew, or god forbid do anything else, you'll still have to deal with GoDaddy the company.
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#47Registrar != nameserver, although they tend to provide one, they also tend to be complete crap IME. Have a look at your hosting provider (which hopefully is not also your registrar). e.g I use Linode's nameservers which are pretty reliable and have a straightforward UI. All you need to do is point your registrar to a different name server.
Gandi’s bundled DNS seems pretty OK, am I missing anything? Aside from the fact that you have to submit to Gandi’s prices first.
Bundling DNS with hosting is fine, bundling registration with hosting may be dangerous as per sibling comment.
It doesn't matter too much which side the DNS server is on, although the registrar provided ones tend to be less reliable. The potential for getting into trouble comes when the company that controls your domain ownership also does the hosting, because if they decide to ban you based on content or false flags or whatever, then you may also lose access to your domain name giving you no way to switch to an alternative. If the registrar is separate you can just pick up a different, possibly more fair hosting provider and point your domain at it.
The only guys I trust to do both are nearlyfreespeech.net, and although they aren't going to throw themselves under a bus for you if you are up to obviously illegal stuff, they are principled and do have a lot of experience pushing back against bogus law suits or DMCAs from people trying to exploit the system to get stuff they don't like taken down.
RE Gandi, It's been a long time but I always found their pricing pretty steep. Try out linode, stuff like nameservers are free, their VPS options are not infinitely configurable like gandis, but they are also simpler and way cheaper anyway. I think with Gandi you are paying a high premium for independently customisable resources.
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#48Try using a different, dedicated DNS provider first - no need to switch registrars. For example you could try (shameless plug) https://nanelo.com If you want, I can migrate everything for you and hook you up with a free account for now.
hey - very cool service. but no API ? im not in the market right now, but i have been in the past. your pricing is pretty good for early stage (before people might have to move to bunny.net or nsone at scale). but no API is a blocker. just FYI.
Hey! Great point - an API is currently in the works and will be available in all plans pretty soon!