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It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes.

Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b) mail forwarding, and c) self-service subdomains? (Maybe the last two are standard—I have no idea since I’ve always used Google Domains)

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I use Gandi which has all the TLDs, with Cloudflare as my nameserver.

This setup means I get reasonable prices with a single point of purchase for all my domains, but also get a decent UI and API to manage the DNS.

Cloudflare email makes mail forwarding incredibly easy too. You get this as well in this setup.

They are increasing prices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-p...

I know. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything better than Gandi, which actually has all the TLDs I need. Every registrar out there just has some subset. Having a single point of payment is a big deal for me; if it costs me 50 euros extra a year to not have to deal with three different UIs, logins, accounts etc it's well worth it.

Maybe Netim? https://www.netim.com/en

Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?

Not yet. I am about to switch. My domain bill will jump by more than 50% (comparing Gandi after 13 July 2023 with Netim for prices on renewals), and Netim came up top for an EU company doing renewals.

Well they have all the TLDs I care about so I will test them on one and if they work out I think I will switch. Thank you!

EasyDNS (easydns.com) has been good for us. They're also not one of the places that easily rolls over to fake legal notices, which reduces one potential stress vector as well.

This is exactly what I am here looking for. I have 18 domains. 14 have mail forwarding, 2 have dedicated emails through Google workspaces and 2 are forwards to another domain. I’m not paying an extra 144$ a year for the domains PLUS whatever additional fees I’ll run into after this to follow this to Squarespace.

I know email forwarding isn’t the standard because Hover charges you 5$ per year per domain just for email forwarding. So frustrating.

Cloudflare does email forwarding for free. Just swap your nameservers to cloudflare’s.

Cloudflare is even cheaper than Google AFAIK. I already use them for my main domains and will probably move all my other Google domains over there as well.

One potential issue I see is that Cloudflare doesn’t allow changing to non-Cloudflare name servers.

Not an issue for me, but worth noting since this is fairly unusual, as far as I’ve seen.

I’ve used namecheap for many years and have started using porkbun recently. Both have given me no problems, have reasonable prices and have those features.

Looks like Namecheap is $15/year. That’s a 25% increase over Google Domains, although not a huge amount in absolute terms.

Porkbun advertises $10/year, which would be great, if true.

you can use cloudflare for all three.

Looks like Cloudflare doesn’t mark up domain registration pricing? Thanks for the suggestion!

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