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Comment by echelon | Hacker News Reader

Namecheap should use some of this new revenue to fix their UI.

Owning more than 10 domains on Namecheap is a burden. Trying to manage more than 50 is an outright headache [1]. I'm nearly to the point where I'm going to transfer all of my domains just to escape the poor management console. I've been giving them this same complaint for awhile [2].

I'm no fan of Godaddy [3], but they really did a good job with bulk management and organization.

Any recommendations for alternative registrars on the dimensions of price, security, TLD support, DNS, and bulk operation / organization features?

[1] I'm not a squatter. I own typos and alternative TLDs of my primary product domains, and I operate lots of websites for various side projects.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406698

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470260

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I literally moved away from Namecheap when they did a UI redesign many years ago. Their old control panel was ugly but functional. Their new one looked much more "modern", but was way less information dense, and they introduced jank and made stuff take more clicks and hid stuff behind collapsed-by-default menus iirc.

They also made their billing details UI no longer accept the letter "ø". The billing details UI which made clear the importance of making sure the name you enter matches the name on the card. And the name on my card happens to contain an "ø". That doesn't exactly instil confidence.

Interesting, your passport cannot contain an ø (in the machine readable part). What is the allowed character set for names on a credit card?

That's interesting. I'd never thought of it before. I just tried to find images, but can't find any example credit cards with non "Roman" lettering, just like passports.

It sucks because the transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations.

Well, my credit and debit cards have my actual name printed on them, "ø" and everything.

> transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations

in fact the latin transliteration for English is off from the native pronunciation

You probably already know this but there's no way for them to verify name on card. They can only verify address with AVS.

Have you considered managing DNS records with Terraform or Pulumi? That way you can easily automate (bulk) changes.

Edit: this is possible with Namecheap as well, see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/namecheap/namecheap/....

"Bring your own UI" is the ideal user experience.

This must be a Godaddy ad or you’ve completely missed the multitude of posts where Godaddy has royally screwed over their own customer.

Did you read my linked post?

I've had to acquire some domain names via Godaddy recently, and I do like their management console. I really dislike the company, though. They screwed me out of one of my domains when I was just a teenager.

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