I wouldn’t buy domains from Cloudflare from a risk mitigation perspective. At work I direct six figures of budget their way annually, but as a free-tier customer in my personal life I don’t trust them not to fuck up at some point and lock my account. If I register my domain elsewhere I can bring myself back online by moving the nameservers. If it’s registered at Cloudflare I’m fucked.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
Top answers from the last 39580202 times this was asked:
- Namecheap
- Porkbun
- Gandi
- Cloudflare
jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
folekaule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have one of my domains on Cloudflare and was thinking of moving the rest of them there. What makes it harder to move name servers away from Cloudflare than other places?
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’ll be fine to move them to Cloudflare.
What the other user is describing would be an extremely rare scenario, and you should be able to change registrars in that case anyway.
There’s really not much of any practical benefits of that kind of excessive “risk mitigation”.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t agree and it’s no extra work to do it the other way. And when one or the other goes fucky, you can recover immediately.
jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Your registrar (the place you buy your domains) are where you update your nameservers. If Cloudflare have locked you out then you won’t be able to change them. Other standard registrars will have far less cause, legitimate or not, to lock or disable your account, since they don’t host/proxy your content.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure what the consequences are for ignoring it, but it would violate the ICANN RAA to lock a person out of being able to transfer their domain except for legal reasons like evidence of fraud or a court order. Sure, they can terminate your account on their services but they can’t prevent you from transferral without violating their agreement with ICANN.
It would be a weird scenario that you’re describing that would be unusual and exceedingly rare. You would need to be directly connected to something highly illegal for that to happen, not just a normal user.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is the way. Never use the NS of your registrar.
vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Another +1 for name cheap, been using em for a decade now. Their deals are stellar and renewal prices are on par with any other competitors usually
scarilog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Transferred all my domains from nanecheap to CloudFlare and I’m saving like 1/3 of price on renewals.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moved to Porkbun, saving about the same. The price creep pisses me off.
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll throw in for namecheap. Been with them for a while with no complaints.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Gandi massively increased their prices 2 years ago.
idefix@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
For email hosting only. But yes, they are not as trustworthy as they once were
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like pair domains.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I was with Namecheap for years, and they’re totally fine. I am now with Cloudflare because they’re a bit cheaper and their API is well supported in various tools, and they also seem fine.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I use porkbun and you get cloudflare through them, not sure to what extent, porkbuns just cheaper, I like their ui, straightforward, everything you need on one screen.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Exactly this. Also it annoys me that Namecheap tries to automatically “top up funds” over a month before renewals are due. I think they’ve always done it but it wound me up enough this year to move to Cloudflare.
keckbug@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Counterpoint, I quite like this. I’m terrible at keeping payment details up to date, and I’ve got long renewal periods on my domains. The early renewal attempt allows me to get an email that my payment is expired or revoked (due to a stolen card number or something) and I have a month to go correct it.