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Argh now I need an alternative to 123reg :(

Gandi.net have been great. Control panel is techie-friendly, and support seems unbeatable. Their "no bullshit" tagline seems to work. You don't get a ton of upsells either.

I used to be OK with Namecheap but the Web 2 redesign makes doing most things a pain.

I use both Namecheap and Gandi, a couple of my observations:

1. Namecheap has a really low API limit which caused me problems when using the DNS challenge to renew Let's Encrypt certificates.

2. Their API has to have clients whitelisted by IP, which is a pain when renewing a LE cert from a dynamic home IP.

3. Agreed, their redesign is awful.

I used Gandi recently to get around these restrictions and:

1. Their web UI is truly awful and confusing

2. They don't have the same IP or rate limiting restrictions on the API

3. Their versioning of zones is a bit confusing

4. Their propagation seems to take an age longer than Namecheap. When the latter worked each LE challenge took a couple of minutes, with Gandi it's more like 20 minutes each.

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