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 5 days ago by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de to [deleted]
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atomicpeach@pawb.social 5 days ago
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And now they’re partnering with Proton!
treadful@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days 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 4 days ago
I decided to go with Cloudflare. Thanks for the rec.
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 5 days 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 5 days ago
There are no more free domains anymore?
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
There are, but the process may be truly arcane – 1993 for the .us process found in RFC 1480 – but people have done it: web.archive.org/web/…/usdomain.html
tegbains@lemmy.ca 5 days 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.
thelsim@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Ionos 1&1 with their infinite forwarding addresses and subdomains, free email inbox, and low starting cost (usually $1).
0x01@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Have had a lot of good years with gandi.net
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Until they were bought twice and royally fucked up everything that was good since the 2000s.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago
www.namecheap.com/…/domain-privacy-service/
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
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It’s definitely a thing, but not for all domain types. Not sure why.