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I recommend using easydns.com as the registrar and DNS service. Their email helpdesk is fast: <30 minutes. They answer the phone immediately and they are knowledgeable. Phone support is during business hours, but the more expensive packages have 24hour support.

And yeah, you need to have a lot of faith to use .io or other new TLDs which are serviced by new companies.

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I generally avoid metered services where cheap unmetered alternatives are available.

First of all, 5 million DNS requests sounds like very little. It probably isn't due to caching, but it's hard for me to judge what I need/whether that's enough.

Second, what happens when someone who doesn't like me decides to make 5 million DNS requests? 5 million packets sounds like something a decent connection might be able to fire out in a few seconds. If I pick their highest plan, will a person that has a grudge and a fast link capable of IP spoofing cost me $2/second (theoretically $5M/month, although I'm sure they'd show some mercy at that point)?

Okay, anyone want to confirm or add other DNS registrars to the "One of the good ones" list?

Ive been recommending my friends to do the entire thing through Dreamhost including a WP install.

I personally am more technical, and have my domain name from 7 years ago on godaddy. Any suggestions on where I should use? How about my incompetent friends?

I've always heard good things about gandi

I second this. I've been using gandi.net for a few years now and have had nothing but good experiences with them.

Thirding Gandi. Their web dashboard sucks but they are excellent when it comes to service, support and reliability.

Hmm, lots of people here recommend EasyDNS.

I'm curios so I went to check.

They say that the "DNS PRO" offer has 5 million queries/month. Is that a lot? Do they enforce the limit? That's 7000/requests/hour (or 115/minute or 2/second). That's not PRO in my books.

The results for DNS is cached, often by both browser and ISP resolver, so it's tough to determine the actual query rate for high traffic sites.

DNS results typically get cached for at least a few minutes, and most users use ISP or public DNS servers (eg, Google, CloudFlare, etc) which only do the lookup once for many users, so your authoritative DNS server will see only a fraction of the number of web requests you actually handle. I'd guess for most sites this is probably below 1% in terms of requests per second.

I use also easydns and hover and have nothing but good things to say about the support for both of these registrars.

+1 for Hover. No problems in close to a decade.

Same here for hover. Customer support is excellent and emails about expiring or renewing domains are timely.

.io is not a new domain tho, it's the country tld for Indian Ocean.

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