Is there a tangible advantage of using one registrar over the other?
Pricing, stability and security. As per usual.
What makes a domain registration unstable or insecure?
Gandi.net – Pricing Update
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#93I moved over to Porkbun from Gandi a few years back and they've been way better and no-nonsense for sure.
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#94I'd switched registrars to Gandi as a form of protest when the US seized the domains of a UK travel agency that advertised tours of Cub. Because Gandi is based in France, it is not subject to US extraterritorial overreach. I stayed despite their higher prices because of good security like using FIDO U2F keys, so less likely to have an account hijacked, as I self-host my email and that is probably the single biggest p…
Swiss companies have a history of telling the US gov to pound dust. There's a list of Swiss based registrars (that provide .ch domains) maintained by the .ch NIC:
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
They got me, I thought the price hikes were specifically for things I didn't care about, because of all of the gandimail stuff. Without HN I wouldn't have even noticed. Looking at my last invoice, I paid ~£26/year for a .info domain. If I'm reading this right, it's now ~£36/yr. That's a ~40% increase. Glad I renewed for nine years last year.
> Glad I renewed for nine years last year. Given the speed with which Gandi is circling down the drain I won't be surprised if they annul that renewal at some point later on.
They can't. The registration expiration date is managed at the registry (and they've already paid the registry for all of those years).
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#96Hi, Tutanota team here. In case you're looking for a new mailbox, Tutanota might be an option. We've also had a pricing update recently, but legacy users are allowed to keep what they have in full. Plus, we have a 50% offer running at the moment: https://tutanota.com/blog/announcement-new-prices
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#98Is there a tangible advantage of using one registrar over the other?
I haven't noticed much, managing my own domains and some low traffic third parties. I have experience with namecheap, 101domains, gandi, godaddy, and others I can't remember from the top of my head. The most tangible for me is the web interface they give you - I like gandi's the most, and there are some shitty providers that don't even have one. Otherwise they are similar, they reserve the domain for you, let you set it up and provide nameservers so that you don't have to host those. Another difference is how much their website, and their renewal flow makes you hate life with all the dark patterns they employ. Godaddy and 101 were quite horrible in this regard, I really needed to double-check before paying that they haven't slipped in a value-add that I don't need, but would cost me nevertheless. Again, gandi is one of the better ones in this regard too.
Gandi also has a nice API to manage the domains. I use that with a simple shell script to have my own dynamic DNS.
So if your usage is as limited as mine, no major differences really.
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#99Any reccomended alternatives? I've used them because they seemed the most reputable in the murky world of domain name providers.
Quoting myself from the previous thread... my requirements are no 1. glaring technical issues, 2. u2f support. > Based on advice here I just tried Porkbun. A not-quite-professional website that prefers making jokes to fixing layout bugs, I try to sign up and the symbols in my password cause it to fail with a 403 (!!). I'm super scared about their technical abilities and general security. Are we going to see another G…
INWX AG are based in Switzerland and Germany, and offer MFA.
(They call it "Mobile TAN" which is the phrase often used in german to describe SMS-based MFA but has slowly expanded to also describe U2F/Fido/etc.)
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#100The 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.
I love Porkbun too. I don't generally praise companies online, but their prices and UX are just so good and effortless...