I’ve been using Cloudflare for my sites. They offer at-cost domain registration, and I’ve been pretty happy.
What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days?
Submitted 1 year ago by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I decided to go with Cloudflare. Thanks for the rec.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There are no more free domains anymore?
tegbains@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
EasyDNS. They are on or the largest independent registrars and DNS providers. When you call or make a ticket, you get competent engineering support. They also work with Let’s encrypt via DNS rest api as well.
treadful@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a blog on my RPi and bought a domain on Namecheap. Years later the project died and cancel the renovation of the domain.
Many months after, I self hosted some services and wanted to use the domain again. I tried to purchase it but Namecheap kept it as “security against losing the domain” but to recover it I was asked to pay much more that I paid before when using the service.
Came with another name and bought it from cloudflare instead.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Sounds like capitalism at work, pricing to suit demand :( Not a great idea to let a domain fall out of grace if there’s ever a chance you’ll want it again.
In work we still maintain domains for arms of the parent company that are long defunct. Less for us and more to prevent others registering.
I’ve had one personal domain go out of grace, but the reactivation price wasn’t too bad. Cheeky, yes - but not bad enough to get something new.
Could be worse, could end up at auction like hexbear did…
kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
This is what I moved to after Gandi started becoming shit and I have nothing bad to say about them yet.
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Their price seems cheap, but they slowly hike up the price over time. Their API is so bad that it’s a classic example of what a company doesn’t reinvent themselves and sit on their reputation and status quo.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Thankfully I don’t deal with enough domains to need to wrangle them with an API.
Appreciate the warning for if I ever I do though - what’s so bad about it?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This has the most upvotes so far so checked it out first.
I’m at the basket stage but don’t see an option to not add my details to the public database like I did on names.co.uk. Do you know if that’s an option.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The private domain registration service Withheld for Privacy is available for almost all domains Namecheap offers. Due to registry restrictions, It cannot be used with .ca, .ch, .cn, .co.in, .co.uk, .com.au, .com.es, .com.sg, .de, .es, .eu, .fr, .gg, .id, .in, .is, .li, .me.uk, .net.au, .nl, .nom.es, .nu, .nyc, .org.es, .org.au, .org.uk, .paris, .sg, .to, .uk, .us, .vote, .voto, .xn–3ds443g domains.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ditto on namecheap.
I will say that while GoDaddy is awful for web hosting their VPS customer service is like a VIP queue, and they’re great. Not the cheapest. I only keep GoDaddys shit webhosting because I have their VPS as well and I save a bit that way.
0x01@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Have had a lot of good years with gandi.net
atomicpeach@pawb.social 1 year ago
I’ve been using porkbun for a few years now and it’s been cheap, simple, and easy to use.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And now they’re partnering with Proton!
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
waffled between porkbun and spaceship before settling on the latter, but not sure if i made the right choice honestly lol