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As someone who shifted all their domains to Google Domains at the cost of margin.. I guess I'm shifting back to PorkBun or NameCheap.

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I hold domains at nearly all the popular registrars (eggs, one basket, etc.) but https://iwantmyname.com/ is another I want to add to the list. It's not often mentioned but is notable in being one of very few registrars to not attempt upsells to hosting, services, etc. NameCheap irritates me with this practice in particular.

I love IWMN except for the fact that their 2FA implementation is deprecated and falls back to SMS (which is not a secure enough channel for something as important as domains). I’ve been emailing them about this annually for several years and they’ve no plans to improve it, so I’m going to move my domains away :(

Fair point! I also somehow failed to notice they were acquired by a larger company a few years ago which is often a bad sign long term in my experience. I guess I will maintain my policy of using about ten different registrars.. :-)

I'm curious why you shifted to them in the first place. What did they offer you that PorkBun of NameCheap did not?

I’m not the OP but I’ll note that google domains was the only way to use a personal domain with a consumer/free gmail account without that “sent on behalf of” thing, if I recall correctly. I moved away from Gmail a few years ago, so I’m a bit foggy on the details, but that was why I moved to google domains way back when.

This was also why I chose gDomains, and I'm very sad that they're getting rid of that product now. I guess I'll have to look at my options again soon.

Thanks for replying. So if I understand before this correctly before this event you could use a google domain with gmail without having to sign up to google workspaces?

Ah, not quite — sorry for my confusing reply! It’s just that you could “send mail as” your custom domain without “on behalf of” showing up for the recipient.

same -____- and im starting not to like namecheap. Someone else mentioned CloudFlare but for me only if their email forwarding is solid.

Email forwarding seems to work pretty well for me. Just moved to Cloudflare this morning and it only took a minute or two to configure everything. Although I was already using Cloudflare for DNS, so all I had to do was transfer the domain registration, then remove the old MX records from Google and click a button to add the Cloudflare ones.

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