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I'm glad to see he's transferring to hover.com. I moved my domains there a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I didn't have issues with NS but had
by bjitty 13y ago
I'm glad to see he's transferring to hover.com. I moved my domains there a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I didn't have issues with NS but had a lot of issues with Register.com doing shady things like this.
Hover.com is about first domain registrar I've used that didn't feel shady as far as milking every last dollar they could out of me. Trying to up sell, etc.
- llamataboot 13y agonamecheap is also great IMHO
- joshkehn 13y agogandi.net is great
- adders 13y agoi highly recommend gandi to everyone. Very good service, probably the best Europe based registration companies around.
- rom16384 13y agoSeconded. They are a bit more expensive, but to me it's worth it. On the negative side their control panel is subpar, but there are tutorials to side-step that.
- xenophonf 13y agoI'll jump on the Gandi bandwagon. Great customer service, communications when things go down, support for IPv6 and DNSSEC, an easy-to-understand API, reasonable prices. I am really happy with them. Just transferred the last of my domains from GoDaddy last month, and I'll be off Dotster before the end of this month. (I left Network Solutions a long time ago, and good riddance.)
- k3oni 13y agoWould as well recommend Namecheap.com, really professional.
- arn 13y agoI liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime. So don't use their dns, otherwise you are locked in. which is kinda shitty.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime. That doesn't make any sense. As long as you set up the proper records in your new DNS provider prior to switching nameservers, there'll be no interruption. It sounds like you switched nameservers first, assuming the records would just transfer over?
- arn 13y agoNamecheap controls both the domain name settings and the dns (if you use theirs). The moment you switch the nameservers for the domain, they immediately purge the records from their DNS. So, when you point to new nameservers, anyone pointing to namecheap's dns during propagation will get SERVFAIL. It sounds absurd... but I've gone back and forth with support about it, with no solution.
- yid 13y agoInteresting tip. I'm taking away the fact that I should transfer the nameservers away immediately after buying/transferring a domain (for Cloudfront, I presume?). Other than that, and ColdFusion hacks aside, my experience with them has also been fantastic.
- ceejayoz 13y agoAh, that makes more sense. Haven't used their DNS - do they let you drop the TTL, at least?
- blueskin_ 13y ago+1 for Namecheap, although I don't use their own DNS.
- dpcan 13y agoI agree. The few domains I have there, I'm really happy about. I love how it really focuses on domains first. However, with the email service, google apps, and web forwarding, I'm a little concerned they'll start up-selling ssl, hosting, seo, website builders, etc, etc, etc, etc. I think it would be hard NOT to do this as a domain registrar given how it probably feels like you're just leaving money on the table by not selling all these other related services.