Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why?

Recently moved over to porkbun after dealing with a couple billing issues with namecheap and not getting the best customer service. Been pretty happy so far.

I've been moving my stuff over to Porkbun from Gandi after Gandi updated their ToS and changed their pricing structure.

CloudFlare

Namecheap for registrar and Cloudflare for the name servers. Always keep those services separated so if one dies, you can still get into the other service to fix it.

Cloudflare and Namecheap. I would use Cloudflare because of cost

Google Domains because I have a Google account and buying a domain on it was easy when I needed it. I'm still on Google Domains but you've reminded me I need to continue the transfer to Cloudflare before I get forced over to Square Space because they don't support Dynamic DNS.

Cloudflare.

Cloudflare for support (tooling), Njal.la for privacy (run by the pirate bay founder), porkbun for a happy medium and for the cool kids.

I have mine on Namecheap, but i’ve moved the nameserver to Cloudflare. Been using them for a while, can’t complain at all. Am also paying for their email service on the same domain

njal.la

Namecheap because I pay 88 cents a year for my domain.

Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.

Namecheap because they've lived up to their name. The DNS for my domains is all on Cloudflare though as I can automate my letsencrypt renewal that way that I couldn't on plain old namecheap.

Cloudflare, because my understanding is that they typically renew at basically cost, and that’s where most of my other DNS stuff is anyway.

I typically buy domains at whatever registrar is cheapest at the time for initial purchase, which most recently was namecheap IIRC.

Namecheap bc I typed where to buy cheap domains and that was the first one.

Namecheap since I have been using them since the 00s and never had any problems.

Cloudflare cause they already had my DNS and google domains was on its way to the google graveyard. Not sure how privacy respecting they are but they do offer some kind of partial whois redaction. Surely better than google though?

Namecheap.

It wasn't GoDaddy.

Gandi.net

GDRP and anonymous hosting. Pretty great.

I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for a very long time. They're a small, reliable, outfit that's been around forever and definitely respects your privacy.

Porkbun because it was super easy, one of the cheapest, and has rest good guides for noobs for how to connect various hosting sites (like, using Google sites but owning the domain from porkbun)

Porkbun asks for your ID now so that might not be "privacy-respecting" but their CS is very helpful from my experience.

I have domains in Netim and Spaceship, and I have no problems with either so far.

Porkbun

Not kosher and offered best price

Njal.la. They buy the domain for you and let you control it. They also don't give whois information by default.

Previously Gandi, but they've jacked up their prices and cut features, so in the process of moving to AWS Route53.

My main requirements are:

• Competitively priced (doesn't need to be the absolute cheapest, but the feature set better justify the price)
• Able to manage domain with Terraform (I've got 10 domains, and copy-pasting DNSSEC keys around gets old really fast)
• Not be CloudFlare (fuck those guys in particular)

Namecheap because it’s easy and quick to use. They have good prices on new domains as well. Their prices are less attractive in renewals though, so I’d suggest transferring your domain after buying it to Cloudflare or NameSilo or PorkBun or the like.

I rent a domain from namesilo

The first registrar I used was DomainSite, around 20 years ago. They still exist but are called Name.com now. They're a pretty good registrar.

I have most of my domains at Porkbun these days. They're great too, and a bit cheaper.

In terms or privacy-respecting, most registrars will mask your WHOIS info for free, to comply with laws like GDPR. Never pay for "WHOIS privacy".

OVH, reasonably priced, API for DNS management and existing certbot integration

I'm not super knowledgeable on this, but I chose Dynadot because it's cheap and WHOIS privacy is included.

Some European ones because the domains have European TLDs. .eu for example is only available by EU registrars IINM. But also, I do my best to keep the money local where I can.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Was on Google cause I just initially was setting them up there. Moved to cloudflare the day they added dev tlds.

What privacy concerns do you have? I'm all for privacy, but I don't really see where registrars are a delicate topic in that. The most that comes to mind is that some (most?) have a service where they do not give out your name and address for whois requests, but instead the details of the registrar (namecheap has that for example).

I originally used namecheap but moved over to porkbun about 2 years ago now. I've really enjoyed their service since the move. The two instances where I needed to contact support were great. Issues were resolved very quick and responses weren't days apart like namecheap.

I'm using my local registrar. 10 years ago, when I registered my first domain, it was one of few options I was familiar with, and they had offered a discount. I could find something cheaper, but we're talking about 8EUR/year. It doesn't really matter.

Initally some local site, then I transferred to GoDaddy, then to OVH (since GD is shit). One is still at Cloudflare (tried to move there, but they don't support al TLDs that I use, like ".eu").

For DNS I use Cloudflare. They provide a layer of privacy, i.e. your server IPs don't get exposed directly.

Ghandi.net because a paranoid DNS expert told me he uses it

Namecheap because cheap

I use Hostpoint.

They were recommended by Protonmail, and meet my privacy concerns.

I currently use gandi but I'm planning on moving to cloudflare. Not in too much of a rush since I did a 10 year lease.

I started with Porkbun, but I also have some domains on Gandi because they offer a CC TLD I wanted.

Chose Namecheap just for domain and later ionos and their mail service for my 2nd.

Namesilo, cheap and never had issues

OVH because it's European

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Contabo, since I also rented a VPS with them at the time. Really great service, complete dns control. Can only recommend

OVH because cheap enough for me, europe based and reliable.

Veebimajutus. They are a local registrar in my country and I like to support local businesses.

porkbun is good and cheap

https://www.inwx.de/

No particular reason. They seem pretty alright.

cloudflare takes 0% commision, but its cloudflare

Easydns.ca, no privacy issues. Nothing about me personally in the who's db (.net tld)

INWX because it's a local provider which seems decent.

Internet.bs because it's cheap and had a cctld I wanted

I stick with the big name registrars and then just use the cheapest for that TLD.

Currently using Infomaniak.com and I'm really liking it. They are a bit pricy compared to other registrars but

• they have solid privacy policy
• their servers use renewable energy
• they let you set up DDNS with a simple bash script
• they offer some cool email and kSuite benefits with the purchase of a domain

Was on Namesilo. No complaints, save for the slow website. Changed to porkburn because it was a bit cheaper.

Gen.xyz

I use Infomaniak, as they follow swiss privacy laws and had the cheapest registration for .ch when I registered it first.

name.com. I don't remember why I picked them, but they do no BS and the service is fine.

Ive been thinking about #dnsregistrars and #ssl certificates lately. Does anyone know a #coop #registrar ?