Ask HN: What is your preferred alternative to GoDaddy?

17 pointsjconnop14y ago21 comments

With the recent news concerning GoDaddy, I plan to move all of my domains to a new registrar.

So I put to you this question: which registrar should that be?

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r4vik14y ago· 1 in thread

Gandi because you get full control of your zone file and SSL cert

com414y ago

Gandi is a bit slow, they don't obfuscate your name with private registration, and it's a giant pain to change the name of the owner. (Sign up for a new account and transfer all domains to the new account)

qxb14y ago· 1 in thread

Internet.bs for me. Very cheap, straightforward management, quick to propagate changes.

khakimov14y ago

+1 http://www.internetbs.net/ easy and fast solution for my domains.

matan_a14y ago· 1 in thread

I think that most people won't have a problem with any domain registrar as long as the price is decent, they don't cause any problems, and DNS management is sufficient.

I personally use 1and1 for all my domains, but it's just because of the above reasons.

When I feel i need a little more DNS zone magic, i set Amazon Route 53 as the nameservers and configure it there as needed.

ohashi14y ago

It's all dandy til it's not. And some companies really screw you over when it's not.

Price should be the LAST concern on something like a domain name. Considering the difference is a few dollars and most people don't register more than a couple, it SHOULD be a non issue.

decadentcactus14y ago

Namecheap

I reg'd one with Gandi but to be honest haven't used much of it, so can't say

karlzt14y ago

if you search HN you will find that Namecheap has good reputation.

NFS is good too, but is a reseller of Public Domain Registry http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/a...

pkamb14y ago

NFS: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

MattBearman14y ago

Anyone looking for a UK based company, I use Heart Internet - http://heartinternet.com - and they're always been great for me. I used to use their shared hosting before I moved over to Linode, and even that was good.

iaskwhy14y ago

https://www.coffeeanddomains.com as discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970659

kennethologist14y ago

Name.com bought about 5 domains and will move my other domains there from godaddy and 1and1, network solutions as they expire.

espadagroup14y ago

In my experience Godaddy has been fine with just registering domains. I have my domains there but use PHPFog for my hosting.

whichdan14y ago

I've been happily using Moniker.com for five or six years now. They have really solid bulk domain management.

leeHS14y ago

iwantmydomain.com I can't believe these guys are not mainstream yet. Hooked up to my Heroku app in 5 seconds, then setup gmail apps in another 5 seconds. I has zero complaints with these guys.

riffmaster14y ago

Name for international domains like .im and Namecheap for others

Dimitris14y ago

dreamhost. super easy to use and they have awesome support!

Mankhool14y ago

In Canada, Blacksun.

runjake14y ago

name.com, as recommended to me by many on here.

Joakal14y ago

I use Jumba, a local registrar.

nye14y ago

Inmotion - excellent support

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