Is it one that you just use and works just fine? Or one that has proven to be reliable and responsible if they do a mistake and only want to satisfy you as a customer?
Not Gandi. They were very reliable since the beginning of the internet but they sold the company and went downhill since.
I really want to say Gandi but they charge too much now and removed the free mailboxes.
Anyway, I’ll vouch for Netim. Their prices are similar to (old) Gandi and they have a mailbox too. I’m looking into Spaceship for some other domains because they’re really cheap.
I use porkbun because i can and do pay with crypto to renew my domain.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAS Network-Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
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I’m using PorkBun and I’m happy with them
I’ve been with GoDaddy for going on 20 years.
Its worked well for me. I started off with their web hosting, but these days they just handle my domains. They’ve got an API so you can use them as a dynamic DNS provider as well.
GoDaddy is known to be a terrible company for a multitude of reasons (both technical and non-).
My last experience with them involved completely migrating a client away from them as they were paying significantly more than I’d ever seen for the services they were using.
For the client, what drove them to finally dump GoDaddy was their email server only pushing new messages every 10 minutes (even on a manual fetch); not good in an email-heavy industry.
I couldn’t even get DNSSEC working at the time and if I remember correctly you had to pay more for AAAA records — something crazy like that.
Am I the only one using iWantMyName.com?
Like some of the others described here, I like that their ui is dead simple and easy to navigate, once a year when I have to renew. And their prices seem to be middle tier.
I use them right now, but I’ve been disappointed lately and I’m considering moving away. They’re more expensive than other options and you have to contact customer service for some things, but their response times are pretty slow. E.g., they don’t have an interface to add glue records, so you have to ask them to do it… when I did this it took them a couple days to get back to me, and they forgot to add the IPv6 records too. My other domains are registered elsewhere (for cheaper) and they just had an interface to do this and it happened instantly. I keep running into problems like this with iwantmyname and it’s been kind of frustrating. I had problems with their name servers dying for a bit recently too… I was happy with them for years, but they’ve caused enough problems for me lately that I’m wondering why I’m paying extra for them.
Funny you posting on this older comment of mine today - I am in the midst of a support case with them. We’ll see how it turns out!
They usually get it sorted out pretty well, but their response times can be a little slow. It’s potentially not a huge deal for you, and overall they’ve been okay… this is sort of understandable because they’re in New Zealand and seem to want to make sure their support staff are paid well (though they were bought by a larger company recently, so I’m not sure if this still holds, seems like it did as of 2019, though):
- https://iwantmyname.com/blog/making-customer-support-sustainable-with-a-small-team-based-on-a-tiny-island
- https://iwantmyname.com/blog/the-one-salary-experiment-ten-years-in
This makes them seem like a cool company, and I’d like to support them… But despite that I do feel a little disappointed paying more for a worse service, and I think they really need to invest in providing interfaces for some of the more advanced DNS settings, particularly if their customer support is going to be limited by their own admission.
They also have some blog posts about customer service that give me some weird vibes…
Definitely in support of their customer service team in this example, and don’t want them to be treated poorly or sworn at or anything… But it’s a little weird to put this on blast like this and I think it’d be a better look to just leave it at “these are the things that would help us help you, we need to make sure accounts are secure so we can’t just ignore passwords, etc etc”
And it’s also a little weird that they have this post complaining about some web-hosts poor interface and customer service too:
Neither of these are particularly bad, but I guess it makes me a bit disappointed that I’ve run into similar problems with them, and I’m not sure they’re doing enough to address things on their end.
I don’t think I’d tell anybody not to use them because they have been good for the most part, but they’re not as fully featured as other registrars in my experience, and they’re more expensive.
Cloudflare works really well and has a good UI. Namecheap also works well, but it takes more clicks to adjust DNS records.
For some reason every registrars dns panel has its own weird restrictions, bugs and interface quirks. Pointing the nameservers to Cloudflare at least makes for a consistent experience.
