Comment on Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why?

• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it possible to do that? Afaik they don’t allow to use different name servers if they’re registrars

  I had the domain on a registrar that didn’t allow changing name servers (Tophost for 6 euro per year) and I had to “hop” with ovh for 60 days before having cloudflare for a registrar as they didn’t allow to transfer the domain with different NS

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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cloudflare doesn’t allow me to change my name servers? What blasphemy! I had never considered this, I thought it would be allowed by default. Where can I read about this?

    I’m looking for a cheap domain registrar with terraform support

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the main reason why their domains are so cheap. Their thinking is that since you have to use Cloudflare services to use the domain, you may look at the paid services and decide to pay for one, or suggest it at your workplace.

      They charge wholesale price for domains, so they make $0 profit on them. Effectively it’s a loss leader to hook you into the ecosystem. That’s the same reason why VMware ESXi used to be free for home labs - users would become advocates for it and use it professionally.

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      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll paste the comment I made earlier:

        Oh boy, I was unaware of the fact that I can’t use my own nameservers with cloudflare. Definitely not going to recommend them anymore

        Which registrar do you suggest with good API support? Most of my infrastructure uses Terraform and Salt

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