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Comment by _cenw | Hacker News Reader

I used to be on INWX (and still am for some .de domains), but they charge up to 2x for some gTLDs when compared to Cloudflare.

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"We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains."

I'm sure INWX is not going to do this (#alleggsinonebasket)

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...

inwx is good for EU countries TLD. For generic COM/NET I use http://internet.bs ,is pretty good. gandi was good too, but I was told that email is not free anymore with them. You can buy plain email service for a domain at Swisserland based https://www.infomaniak.com for 18 Euros a year (IMAP, 5 Emails)

Don't use Cloudflare https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...

If you do for domain price only, there are comparison sites. Just recently sombody posted one on YC. It may have been this one: https://tld-list.com/

Spaceship is owned by namecheap. Namecheap is supposed to be good too but I don't undertand why they would undercut their own prices.

EDIT: Cheapest non-bait registrar seems to be cosmotown with 8.99 USD. They seem to prevent C&P on their about page and one of their "partners" a German company, does not even have a webpage. Turing Crypto GmbH

I think I pass.

Cloudflare, which I don't recommend, claims to sell domains "at cost" without any markup/profit. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

If Cosmotown is 1 USD cheaper than cloudflare, they are losing money on every domain. They claim to "use AI tools to "minimize overhead".

Good luck with this registrar.

I would personally avoid namecheap if you're not based in the US. Back at the beginning of 2022 they cut off all clients from Russia without prior notice, giving everybody a couple of weeks to migrate to another registrar and/or hoster. This created quite a problem and added more work for oppositional news outlets and sites like ovdinfo that were helping people who got locked up for protesting against what was happening. Both groups had enough problems already. Fuck them; once bitten, twice shy.

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