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One domain I have had for over 20 years was originally purchased with GoDaddy. I then transferred to Google Domains when that opened up for supposedly better integration with Google Workspace. Now Google Domains is closing up and transferring to Squarespace but I just received an email that they do not support Dynamic DNS (DDNS) so now I'm looking to transfer my domain again.

I was thinking about going back to GoDaddy because their customer service was nice in helping me resolve a DNS entry issue. Namecheap appears to have good reviews here but I was also looking into https://porkbun.com but they do not appear to have DDNS.

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I've been using NameCheap for well over a decade for my home-gamer stuff.

I find their freebie DNS to be reliable, and their DNS management tools to be completely adequate.

DDNS just works. I set it up exactly one time with OpenWRT and forgot all about it.

And by "free" DNS, I mean: Literally free. It is a service that they give away at zero cost, and it can be used with any domain (including one registered with porkbun.com or whoever). You don't have to ever pay them a dime to use their DNS indefinitely.

I haven't ever dealt with their support folks so I have no opinion on that. I don't expect that I'll ever need to bother them.

Their website is lean-enough and easy to use. Products and pricing are straight-forward and transparent, and not pushy.

And et cetera. It's pretty nice, I think.

But not everybody is particularly happy with NameCheap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34768550

edit: or much more recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203315

Having just recently dealt with GoDaddy support, I can tell you that it all seems to be outsourced elsewhere. Their agent had absolutely no idea what they were talking about and only seemed to be interested in getting rid of me as quickly as they can.

I ended up solving my issue by inspecting HTTP requests in the dev. console, to find out the error their backend emitted and their frontend wouldn't show.

You can use their own DDNS client they built to showcase their api or you can build your own with their api: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/190-getting-started-with-the-...

move your domain(s) to porkbun, but setup cloudflare's nameservers on your domain. then you can manage your records and setup ddns through cloudflare.

For those of you that use DDNS for essentially homelab (say to allow friends and family to watch media on your self hosted Plex Media Server) - just use TailScale.

I would think about actual publicly know IP address (like it is for dynamic DNS) only for things like hosting your own mail server.

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