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After some positive research, I just purchased two domains from Hover. This is unacceptable however and I will be moving them away. What registrar would anyone

After some positive research, I just purchased two domains from Hover. This is unacceptable however and I will be moving them away. What registrar would anyone say is the most security focused and/or government resistant? Maybe it should be a 2011 AskHN?

AdamGibbins 15y ago
I can't vouch for "security focused" - but Gandi.net have so far never let me down. They're based in France, so not susceptible to US law (dependent on the TLD you use of course) and have a huge variety of TLDs. Can't recommend Gandi enough, they do exactly what they say on the tin - "no bullshit".
- jarin 15y ago
  Gandi is pretty awesome, but just be aware that your credit card company might freeze your card the first time you buy from them (apparently buying domain names in other countries is a fraud trigger) :D
  - Maxious 15y ago
    Never had that problem with Gandi but buying digital goods from Facebook froze my card. Apparently they were a hive for credit card thief testing at that point in time because of the low value of virtual gifts (1 US cent?).
  - christefano 15y ago
    This happened to me, too (twice!), but I now use PayPal instead of my credit card and my bank no longer freezes my account.
- geocar 15y ago
  I've had other positive experiences with Gandi.net: They hooked one of their VPS servers up with a BGP feed so I could announce my AS there for testing a new Anycast service.
- gregsadetsky 15y ago
  Gandi is great and resilient. I know from personal communication with them that the Yes Men recommend using their domain services (they also favor joker.com, which is based in Germany -- I've had a good experience there as well, although Joker doesn't offer VPS services like Gandi).
- AdamGibbins 15y ago
  Gandi also have excellent free DNS hosting services. With an excellent control panel including grouping and raw BIND config.
- stfp 15y ago
  Gandi is super awesome ! One quick thing though: since last year they have a US subsidiary (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi), which might or might not make them more susceptible to US law.
shantanubala 15y ago
I absolutely love NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration (and also cheap hosting). I wouldn't say they're security focused, but they allow you to be totally anonymous in your registration, and have a policy of hosting anything that isn't illegal.
clobber 15y ago
Moniker
jjcm 15y ago
Name.com is great. They don't try to obfuscate the UI to make it more user friendly. Straight access to the DNS records, simple clean design. Here's an old link to a comment I had discussing them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590
- brodd 15y ago
  That very thread convinced me to switch to name.com six months ago. They're great.
  - dmit 15y ago
    Switched to Name.com around that time too. The website stripped special characters from my password during registration and I couldn't understand why it wouldn't let me log in since the limitation wasn't mentioned anywhere. Had to confirm with customer support. Take that as you will. But I like how they send you an email on every failed auth attempt.
jjcm 15y ago
Here's a thread discussing DNS registrars from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439
yawniek 15y ago
007names.com is doing good here

AdamGibbins 15y ago

I can't vouch for "security focused" - but Gandi.net have so far never let me down. They're based in France, so not susceptible to US law (dependent on the TLD you use of course) and have a huge variety of TLDs. Can't recommend Gandi enough, they do exactly what they say on the tin - "no bullshit".

jarin 15y ago
Gandi is pretty awesome, but just be aware that your credit card company might freeze your card the first time you buy from them (apparently buying domain names in other countries is a fraud trigger) :D
- Maxious 15y ago
  Never had that problem with Gandi but buying digital goods from Facebook froze my card. Apparently they were a hive for credit card thief testing at that point in time because of the low value of virtual gifts (1 US cent?).
- christefano 15y ago
  This happened to me, too (twice!), but I now use PayPal instead of my credit card and my bank no longer freezes my account.
geocar 15y ago
I've had other positive experiences with Gandi.net: They hooked one of their VPS servers up with a BGP feed so I could announce my AS there for testing a new Anycast service.
gregsadetsky 15y ago
Gandi is great and resilient. I know from personal communication with them that the Yes Men recommend using their domain services (they also favor joker.com, which is based in Germany -- I've had a good experience there as well, although Joker doesn't offer VPS services like Gandi).
AdamGibbins 15y ago
Gandi also have excellent free DNS hosting services. With an excellent control panel including grouping and raw BIND config.
stfp 15y ago
Gandi is super awesome ! One quick thing though: since last year they have a US subsidiary (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi), which might or might not make them more susceptible to US law.

shantanubala 15y ago

I absolutely love NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration (and also cheap hosting). I wouldn't say they're security focused, but they allow you to be totally anonymous in your registration, and have a policy of hosting anything that isn't illegal.

clobber 15y ago

Moniker

jjcm 15y ago

Name.com is great. They don't try to obfuscate the UI to make it more user friendly. Straight access to the DNS records, simple clean design. Here's an old link to a comment I had discussing them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590

brodd 15y ago
That very thread convinced me to switch to name.com six months ago. They're great.
- dmit 15y ago
  Switched to Name.com around that time too. The website stripped special characters from my password during registration and I couldn't understand why it wouldn't let me log in since the limitation wasn't mentioned anywhere. Had to confirm with customer support. Take that as you will. But I like how they send you an email on every failed auth attempt.

jjcm 15y ago

Here's a thread discussing DNS registrars from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439

yawniek 15y ago

007names.com is doing good here