Seeing the news with Google domains, I’m looking to move registrars, and was wondering who everyone uses.
Namecheap. I’ve been using them for several years for various projects and have never had a problem with them.
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.
Namecheap
+1 been with Name heap for many years and have many domains worth them. Also very happy with their support.
Another +1 for namecheap here. Have a dozen or so domaions/projects with them.
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.
I use porkbun.
The prices are similar to google domains and the dns management interface is ok.
I like their sense of humour. The definitely don’t take themselves too seriously.
Been using porkbun as the registrar and cloudflare for Dns, no complaints. I like the cloudflare interface better and like having Dns and registrar separate.
I used porkbun with Cloudflare DNS, porkbun were cheaper for me than Google.
Porkbun is great. Definitely cheaper. A bit outdated UI but we all know that’s the kinda one you really trust.
Do they have dyndns support? That was what led me to google.
Keep in mind you can always use a different DNS provider who does support dynamic dns. For example you could use cloudflare (free) with a domain bought from Pork Bun.
Yeah, it’s just nice to consolidate where able.
Moved to Porkbun yesterday. No fuss, quick setup and pricing is good.
Cloudflare, the prices are just right, and the features they offer are hard to beat.
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.
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.
Cloudflare for supported TLDs and Hover for the rest
I’m out of the loop, what’s wrong with google domains?
it was sold to squarespace. https://www.androidpolice.com/google-domains-takeover-squarespace/
I use Namecheap personally. I really like it.
Namecheap has okay starting prices but man their renewal prices aren’t great compared to other registrars.
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.
Porkbun if you’re cheap and Njalla if you’re paranoid. Cloudflare if you do things that other registrars can’t do.
Have you used Njalla? I was considering them recently, but these reviews gave me serious pause:
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.
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.
Porkbun. I’ve been using since 4 years. Cheap and without errors
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.
I use Hover. They haven’t fucked me so far.
I’ve been using nearlyfreespeech.net for (looks) 14 years now. Their business aligns with my ideals and I’ve always been happy with their service.
Thanks for the post! I didn’t realize google was going out of the registrar business. I only have a couple domains with google (mostly stopped using all of google services so this was the final service I was using).
I really like cloudflare due to the at-cost renewal/registration so that’ll be where I am moving them to
