Seeing the news with Google domains, I’m looking to move registrars, and was wondering who everyone uses.

  • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I use porkbun.

    The prices are similar to google domains and the dns management interface is ok.

  • cyanide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Cloudflare for a while now, Namecheap before that. Both have been good to me, but I prefer Cloudflare more for their various other services, so it made sense to move the domains there as well.

    • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I just switched everything over to cloud flare the other day. I already ran most my services through them so it just made sense. The very next day Google sold their domain biz.

      • werm098@werm.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for this comment, I hadn’t compared pricing in a while and just assumed Name”cheap” was cheap haha! Looks like I might switch to CloudFlare (where I manage DNS anyways) and/or porkbun which others have suggested.

  • hoodlem@hoodlem.meEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Namecheap. I’ve been using them for several years for various projects and have never had a problem with them.

    • DontTakeMySky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same here. My only complaint was the slow adoption of hardware MFA tokens, and the limited DNSSEC support on some TLDs but that’s mostly resolved now.

  • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I have used NameCheap for a long time and they have been great. I use AWS Route53 and Cloudflare for some zone hosting and both of their domain registration services are fine but usually not the cheapest out there.

    • orionstein@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m basically in the exact same boat. Used namecheap forever, and sometimes use route 53. They both work well

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Namecheap has been good so far. They even provides free DNS service when everyone was still charging for DNS. We have cloudflare now that provides better free DNS service, but for domain registrar I’m still loyal to namecheap.

  • ivy@fedi196.gay
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m using porkbun for my instance and it’s been great
    my domain renewal was half google domain’s offering price

    • Romdeau4@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      +1 for pork bun! Everything is easy and cheap. I don’t really ask for much more from a registrar

    • zhenbo_endle@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      +1 for porkbun. I haven’t compared the prices carefully, but I really enjoyed their convenience. I have very little knowledge about that stuff, but I had no trouble using porkbun tools

  • tekeous@apollo.townEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Porkbun if you’re cheap and Njalla if you’re paranoid. Cloudflare if you do things that other registrars can’t do.

      • tekeous@apollo.townEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t really think Trustpilot is a good place to get info, a la Yelp.

        I can vouch for Njalla as one of the more privacy respecting providers(they require zero personal info and allow you to pay in crypto). Other providers said a .gg domain requires WHOIS data to be published, Njalla didn’t give a shit and gave me WHOIS privacy anyway. Even their name servers spell out “you can get no info”. Also, Pirate Bay uses them lmao

        Downsides would be being billed in euro, higher cost, and they require you to pay into your account then they use your account “credit” to pay for your domains, but remember, they operate in “cash”. They don’t know you and they don’t know your card info, so they can’t just bill your card when your renewal comes up.

        For privacy and overall service they get a 10/10 from me. Porkbun is cheaper if you’re not paranoid.

        • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          I don’t really think Trustpilot is a good place to get info, a la Yelp.

          Hard disagree on that, I’ve found it invaluable as a tool for assessing the safety of a company. Sure you’re going to get some idiots who simply don’t know how to use the tool and go online to bitch about it, but if you’re seeing a significant number of people making the same complaints about support or having domains withdrawn from them, it certainly makes me suspicious.

          Thank you for your reply though, it’s good to hear that some people are having success. My understanding from the reading I’ve done online is that they used to be a lot better but have fallen in quality over the last 2 years.