Ask HN: What would you want in a domain registrar?

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That's it! I've built registrars in the past for other companies and an old colleague of mine is thinking about starting one as a lifestyle business. The goal would be to offer solid domain services without scammy dark upsell patterns.

What would be an absolute killer feature set?

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I want my registrar to be boring. That is, I just want it to register my domains at a minimal cost. The only "extra" I want is for them to proxy my contact information in the registry.

That makes sense. What about things like DNS - do you want that bundled with your registrar, or do you want to manage that elsewhere?

I'm unusual in this, but I run my own DNS server. I don't need or use DNS servers by registrars, ISPs, etc.

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