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Ask HN: What's the best Domain Registrar?

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I've been looking for a good new domain registrar. I know that a lot of people distrust Go Daddy these days. But who are the good domain registrars?

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Namecheap.com seems like a good option. However, I have a few international TLDs that they don't manage, so I ended up going with Name.com (http://name.com). They too ran an anti GoDaddy campaign and the service seems straight forward enough w/o all the stupid upsells that GD does.

I've been using namecheap.com for a while and they are, in general, pretty good. One issue I have noticed is that their redirecting service seems to be pretty unreliable. It appears to work 2/3rd of the time. The other 1/3 it gives off all sorts of errors.

http://nearlyfreespeech.net is good I hear.

A friend of mine runs http://www.namecheap.com - I have massive respect for them after they ran an anti-Go Daddy campaign when Bob Parsons posted the elephant killing video, and again when he supported SOPA...

I'm assuming you have massive respect for their clever use of a PR opportunity?

No. I have massive respect for their clever use of two PR opportunities.

And I do love elephants.

Moniker is my favorite hands down: http://moniker.com They are also a favorite of domainers for their features and support. In my opinion they have unmatched security, and will fight to keep your privacy when using whois protection (unlike another popular registrar listed here as an alternative to GoDaddy, from my own personal experience).

Plus, their control panel pages to assign custom nameservers doesn't work half the time! (or at least, it didn't in 2010 when I used them).

And, should you instead choose their DNS service, they'll throw in some free 3-4 hour total outages with no explanation from customer service! [1]

My recommendation would be to stay as far away from Moniker as you possibly can.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=moniker+dns+outage

Hover.com and ghandi.net aren't the cheapest but they are easy to use and don't bombard you with up sells and ads

If you want a registrar and DNS host, I've had great luck with http://dnsimple.com

Great customer support, and they're always adding new features. And having 3rd party DNS hosting separate from your server provider makes switching providers easier.

http://lithiumhosting.com/ Love it.

Definitely not the most full-featured, but dot.tk sells .tk domains for free.

I just started using Name.com and it seems great so far.

Been using 1and1.com for years. Cheap. No complaints.

i love 1and1 as well

dynadot.com is a good option. Cheap and always do promotions for customers.

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