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What are good alternatives?

I’ve been in the dark about this transition and am in the middle of classes so I haven’t had time to look into it. Just saw 3 dozen square space emails about transfers…

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For domains? I really like porkbun.

Cheap, fast, highly configurable. And it feels friendly. I love it.

Usually I search domains on Namecheap, but buy them on porkbun.

Their search is downright terrible. That's the only real negative I've found, aside from not having a few gTLDs, but that's just the game.

+1 for Porkbun. Have been happy there for many years. Though they don't have some country TLDs like .de.

I wanted to like Porkbun but failed to buy a .io domain through them because of technical problems on their end. Their website is also a bit programmer-y and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone non-technical. (Eg UX of login flow includes "Leave password blank if using a passkey or passwordless login.")

I ended up using http://hover.com

> Their website is also a bit programmer-y

This is a feature, not a bug.

Porkbun is the least sketchy site I’ve ever encountered in the domains business.

I moved my domains over to Cloudflare.

I’d recommend against this if you are using Cloudflare for DNS or Proxying. If they decide to close your account then you’ll lose access to your domains too. Whereas if you register them elsewhere, you’ll at least have a path to recovery in the event of Cloudflare account closure or catastrophic failure.

+1 here... a few weeks ago, it wouldn't have been nearly the concern for me, where today it definitely is.

Did cloudflare do something bad in recent weeks and I missed it?

Have have both my dns and domains at cloudflare ...

Arguably, opinion is split: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

A somewhat one-sided story + large thread here from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

Regardless of the parties involved, it's always advisable to spread risk for critical (digital) assets.

This is a really good point and something I hadn't considered. Thanks

Another issue with Cloudflare's registrar is that it's almost impossible to move a domain between two Cloudflare accounts - https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/setup/manage-.... You have to kick it out to a third-party first which is just silly.

Is this a thing? Can companies really "steal" your domain names?

Yep, GoDaddy and NameCheap are reliable registrars with good support and fast updating.

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