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Comment by swayvil | Hacker News Reader

So who's the trustworthy, low-bullshit registrar now?

I've been using Gandi for over a decade.

I personally use Namecheap and Name.com for a few other domains. My rule of thumb is domain registrars only get to manage my domains. Registrars love to upsell you on email and hosting but in my experience that's where all the bullshit starts. If you just buy a domain, you could go to place like GoDaddy and probably have a decent experience.

EDIT: Just like I said, in the original thread they are talking about Ghandi screwing customers on email inboxes. Follows my rule of "anything outside of domains and the bs starts".

> My rule of thumb is domain registrars only get to manage my domains. Registrars love to upsell you on email and hosting but in my experience that's where all the bullshit starts.

That’s the Unix philosophy applied to service providers.

The same logic applies to why you should have a separate cable modem and WiFi router.

> If you just buy a domain, you could go to place like GoDaddy and probably have a decent experience.

No GoDaddy sucks even as just a registrar because even configuring NS records to host your DNS elsewhere is a terrible UX.

Yeah, but I just wanted a few accounts I could "send as" in Gmail . No backups or whatever is fine.

If you search on hacker news there are some people including me who have bad experiences with namecheap, as they threaten to cut off domain itself easily when they get complaints. I am not talking about hosting, but the domain itself. For any large enterprise client, I recommend against using them. Right now, I am on Gandi and only use them for domain, even reading this I'd still pick them over namecheap.

Also been at Gandi over a decade, this really sucks.

Dynadot

They are just as cheap as the often-mentioned NameCheap, but a much better UI.

Dynadot also lets you "domain taste" that is get a refund in credit if you change your mind after buying a domain within I think 72 hours.

They also are one of the largest domain registrars.

I use cloudflare, and their prices are unbeatable.

"Cloudflare Registrar is only available for customers that use Cloudflare as their authoritative DNS provider (also known as a full setup)."

Wow. Just wow. What happens if I register a domain via Cloudflare but decide later I don't want to use their DNS offerings?

You transfer it, hoping that they don't refuse and decide they own you forever.

You can transfer the domain to some other registrar.

porkbun is nice has been nice for registrations, migadu for email

I've used iwantmyname since 2013 and in 2021 started using Porkbun for some.

I still like namesilo and porkbun.

There is none. Any registrar has their own shitty stories. Sad times.

I'd say Google. They have incentive not to play games like this as that could jeoparadize their control of .dev and they don't need to juice profits on a minor service.

But if something does happen, it's impossible to get a CS agent that can actually help

What? With Gandi and others you get screwed by paying more. With Google you get screwed by losing your account completely not matter if you are willing to pay a million to recover it. Google is the worst by far.

I am not sure if cloudflare is liked by HN this week, but so far, I’ve not had a bad experience with their registrar.

Fast and cheap.

Their lack of support, or rather their "support fails" and their VP and C-suite level hacker news readers consistently offering personal assistance to high profile incidents on HN kind of made them a negative running gag here.

I like CF and I like the fact that I can probably tweet at the CEO and get a response for my issues.

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