I’ve been using porkbun for a few years now and it’s been cheap, simple, and easy to use.
What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days?
Submitted 3 months ago by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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atomicpeach@pawb.social 3 months ago
kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And now they’re partnering with Proton!
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I’ve been using Cloudflare for my sites. They offer at-cost domain registration, and I’ve been pretty happy.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I decided to go with Cloudflare. Thanks for the rec.
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
waffled between porkbun and spaceship before settling on the latter, but not sure if i made the right choice honestly lol
kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 months ago
There are no more free domains anymore?
tegbains@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.
0x01@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Have had a lot of good years with gandi.net
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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 3 months 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?
foggy@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
This is what I moved to after Gandi started becoming shit and I have nothing bad to say about them yet.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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 3 months ago
www.namecheap.com/…/domain-privacy-service/
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
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It’s definitely a thing, but not for all domain types. Not sure why.