Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why?

Posted by ahnick on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.

There are a lot of different domain registrars to choose from today: Namecheap, Google Domains, Hover, GoDaddy, etc. Who have you used and had a good experience with? Are there any registrars that you have sworn off? What are the most important features to you: cost? privacy tools? automation? or?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why? by user_agent on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:00PM (#23512222)

OVH.

They offer 1 free 5GB email account to every domain you register with them which I often find very handy. Especially for smaller initiatives that need just a [email protected] and nothing more. Plus they offer a free funny 10MB shared "hosting" with FTP which also can be used in a creative way.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why? by karmakaze on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:00PM (#23513584)

Namecheap has a no-nonsense UI and has been providing free whois domain privacy for a long time.

I've since switched some names to Cloudflare since I use their DNS anyway because of quick update/propagation.

I've also moved some personal domains I'm not really using to NameSilo--horrible UI but I don't feel bad having a bunch of names I'm not (yet) using.

Fastmail for email for these domains is cheap and easy.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why? by Rockvole on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:50PM (#23513079)

Namecheap I found to be pretty good. I only need basic features so I moved to a cheaper (in Canada) registrar - porkbun and they have been totally fine.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why? by rman666 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:40PM (#23511595)

NameCheap has been pretty good IMHO

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite domain registrar and why? by dhruvkar on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:40PM (#23514674)

google domains

free whois privacy

free email forwarding

simple no-nonsense ui

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