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0 pointskkapelon2y ago0 comments

any suggestion on where should I keep my domains then?

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Brajeshwar2y ago· 7 in thread

NameCheap.com, Name.com, and other domain registrars are good options. There are too many options. I use three of them for all my domains.

DNS is taken care by Cloudflare (this can also be by AWS Route53).

Emails, hosts, and others can be with Google, Proton, Fastmail, AWS, et al.

putnambr2y ago

Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy. DNS propagation, domain 'locking', etc. is so much easier to manage and faster using registrars who care about their business. Hover comes to mind, recently I've transferred everything to CloudFlare.

Brajeshwar2y ago

Ah! Will think over this. I have too many domains and I might need to pick a good one for some of the primary ones that I do not want to lose.

I have heard good things about Cloudflare as a registrar. In-fact, I suggest them to a friend who uses it. However, I user Cloudflare for DNS for most of my domains. SO, I won't move the domains registration to them.

reaperducer2y ago

Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy.

DirectNIC. Based on Louisiana. Very professional. Been around forever.

Not the cheapest registrar, which is a feature, not a bug.

If your registrar is competing based on nothing but cost, it has to make up the money by cutting elsewhere.

no_wizard2y ago

I've heard through the grapevine that Namecheap will buy and resell domains based on what you search. does anyone know if there is veracity to this claim?

alyandon2y ago

Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.

Brajeshwar2y ago

I hope my experiences continues. I have had, so far, no issues. In-fact, I have recovered quite a few lost domains, forgotten renewals etc with the help of their support team.

I have heard (know two founders) and I had experienced that domain grabbing-on-search with Godaddy! I won't go anywhere near them.

qingcharles2y ago

How many searches do they have a day? 100,000? A million? I don't even know how they would determine what to buy?

qingcharles2y ago

I've been registering domains since 1993 (when dot coms were free!). I use Namecheap almost exclusively now, except for very weird IDN edge cases such as emoji domains that most providers balk on.

Namecheap support seems good, even though they are working out of a warzone.

beckler2y ago

I migrated all my domains from Google Domains to Porkbun when it was announced that Squarespace was gonna buy the former.

I've been quite happy with Porkbun so far!

pc862y ago

Anywhere you don't also have email, DNS, etc. There are literally hundreds of domain registrars.

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11 comments · 4 top-level

Brajeshwar2y ago· 7 in thread

NameCheap.com, Name.com, and other domain registrars are good options. There are too many options. I use three of them for all my domains.

DNS is taken care by Cloudflare (this can also be by AWS Route53).

Emails, hosts, and others can be with Google, Proton, Fastmail, AWS, et al.

putnambr2y ago

Brajeshwar2y ago

Ah! Will think over this. I have too many domains and I might need to pick a good one for some of the primary ones that I do not want to lose.

reaperducer2y ago

Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy.

DirectNIC. Based on Louisiana. Very professional. Been around forever.

Not the cheapest registrar, which is a feature, not a bug.

If your registrar is competing based on nothing but cost, it has to make up the money by cutting elsewhere.

no_wizard2y ago

I've heard through the grapevine that Namecheap will buy and resell domains based on what you search. does anyone know if there is veracity to this claim?

alyandon2y ago

Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.

Brajeshwar2y ago

I hope my experiences continues. I have had, so far, no issues. In-fact, I have recovered quite a few lost domains, forgotten renewals etc with the help of their support team.

I have heard (know two founders) and I had experienced that domain grabbing-on-search with Godaddy! I won't go anywhere near them.

qingcharles2y ago

How many searches do they have a day? 100,000? A million? I don't even know how they would determine what to buy?

qingcharles2y ago

I've been registering domains since 1993 (when dot coms were free!). I use Namecheap almost exclusively now, except for very weird IDN edge cases such as emoji domains that most providers balk on.

Namecheap support seems good, even though they are working out of a warzone.

beckler2y ago

I migrated all my domains from Google Domains to Porkbun when it was announced that Squarespace was gonna buy the former.

I've been quite happy with Porkbun so far!

pc862y ago

Anywhere you don't also have email, DNS, etc. There are literally hundreds of domain registrars.

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