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

  • hoodlem@hoodlem.meEnglish
    7·
    2 years 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·
      2 years 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.

  • tekeous@apollo.townEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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·
        2 years 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
          11·
          2 years 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it, but if you’re seeing a significant number of people making the same complaints about support or having domains withdrawn from them, it certainly makes me suspicious.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.

  • cyanide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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
      1·
      2 years 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.

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m probably gonna go cloudflare because that’s what I’ve had the best experience with besides Google Domains

  • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I use porkbun.

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

    • greg@greg.cityEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Please everyone, whatever you do, listen to this comment.

  • Nosource@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I use primarily Hover, I want to like Cloudflare but I don’t like that they require using Cloudflare’s nameservers in order to use the registrar.

      • werm098@werm.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 years 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.