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Which do you recommend?
by tarr11 2mo ago
Which do you recommend?
- SoftTalker 2mo agoI've never had a problem with Namecheap but I'm not sure they are really any better as I've never had a problem with GoDaddy either.
- kennywinker 2mo agoNamecheap got bought by private equity fairly recently, so i switched away from them. Wouldn’t recommend starting with them just in time for the enshittification to start.
- lolinder 2mo agoTheir prices had already been going up for a few years before that, which finally pushed me off them starting around August of last year. I'm about to swap my final few domains over this month before they renew. Porkbun has been great so far. Easy to use, refreshingly minimal, and good prices.
- sebastiennight 2mo agoMy understanding is that both GoDaddy and Namecheap used to do domain front running[0] at the time I was registering my first handful of commercial domains, so I've always avoided even using their search engines. I wonder if the practice still exists. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting#Domain_name_front_running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting#Domain_name_fro...
- glitchy99 2mo agoMy bank automatically blocks payments to Namecheap. When I had domains with them, I had to call and give prior approval for the exact amount I would be paying. My bank claimed it was because of a high number of fraudulent charges.
- IAmGraydon 2mo agoWeird. I've been a customer for 15 years and never had any such problem.
- 5701652400 2mo agosquarespace is legit. GCP cloud domains are moved to them.
- lolinder 2mo agoI'd honestly be careful with squarespace. They are owned by private equity, advertise on countless YouTube channels, and at the same time their core market is under a looming threat from the AI companies. You need your domain registrar to be stable and predictable. Their profile is not that.
- 5701652400 2mo agowhich one then?
- lolinder 2mo agoPorkbun has been good to me and a lot of others.
- arjie 2mo agoNever had any trouble with them, but also moving away from them is unnecessarily hard (the code sometimes takes a day to arrive) and they cover the entire interface with their paid hosting stuff which makes them a poor registrar. I ended up on them because of Google Domains selling off but got off them because very annoying to use.
- 5701652400 2mo agohm, tbh for me Squarespace is the most professional and ad-free UI (compare to Godaddy, and others)
- s13k 2mo agoporkbun
- neverusingit 2mo agoStupid fucking name
- Dylan16807 2mo agoYou made an account just to complain that a company's name is a random noun?
- conception 2mo agoporkbun are great
- Drakim 2mo agoI also recommend porkbun
- cute_boi 2mo agoIs it better than cloudflare?
- lolinder 2mo agoDepends on what you mean by better. I chose Porkbun because it's a small company with good prices, a good vibe, and all the tools that I need. Cloudflare was never going to be on the table because I don't want to feed the beast that is already swallowing the entire internet.
- K0IN 2mo agoi use it too,can only recommend, also funny website btw.
- inigyou 2mo agoNever use the same company for your hosting or CDN and your domain, and avoid cloudflare in general. That's because if they don't like your website being on your CDN, and they suspend your account, you'll lose your domain. If your domain is at Porkbun you can change it to point to a different IP address. And avoid Cloudflare because they're centralising the internet.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoHas this actually happened to anyone on Cloudflare Domains? If they don’t give you access, you can escalate to the ICANN.
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- qurren 2mo agoAWS Route53 or Namecheap
- konart 2mo agoI'm quite comfortable with Netim
- rationalist 2mo agoDynadot. One of the largest registrars, and very competitive pricing like Namecheap. They also have very good features.
- IAmGraydon 2mo agoCloudflare
- belorn 2mo agoI would recommend a registrar that would explain to the customer why they would not want a .me domain for anything critical unless the person lives in Montenegro and trust the Government of Montenegro to maintain a good and trust worthy registry. Otherwise just use which ever registrar is cheapest and who you think will handle any quirks or shenanigans that registries may do to domains you own, and which own system and processes hold high enough standard for you.
- FabCH 2mo agoWhat’s with the shade on Montenegro? .me is a perfectly normal domain. And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC.
- wwalexander 2mo agoccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable. The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains. In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a private company called ID.me, whose domain name AND company name are now forever tied to the whims of the government of Montenegro.
- FabCH 2mo agoI mean, the government of Montenegro is a reasonable European democracy on its, admittedly slow, way to join the EU and is a NATO member. It’s not really any different than this website we are now on being at the whim of the US government.
- inigyou 2mo agoIt's very different. If the USA soon starts cancelling politically inconvenient domains, European ones will be safe. Just like Nazi propaganda domains would be censored in Europe, but are safe in the US. Every domain has a country. It's as if every non-ccTLD was actually underneath .us. For legacy reasons .com .org etc were grandfathered in. gTLDs are also under .us for corrupt reasons.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoI’ve been happy with Gandi.net for years now. They’re based in France.
- FabCH 2mo agoFYI - Gandi was great, but they got bought by private equity a few years back and the price skyrocketed and service went downhill super fast after the buyout.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoOh. I haven’t had to renew in a few years. Any EU-based alternative you suggest for when my next renewal comes up?
- FabCH 2mo agoIf EU++ is ok, Infomaniak.
- wwalexander 2mo agoCloudflare
- pbgcp2026 2mo ago.onion This is only thing left, really. (Yes, yes – I do understand it's a hidden service. :-))