Ugh.
Any recommendations for a quality domain registrar? Might as well get started with the migration
Any recommendations for a quality domain registrar? Might as well get started with the migration
Hard to please everyone I guess.
And exactly, I expect clear and correct communications. If you say "your domains will automatically renew in 1 month" then it needs to be in one month.
So, my process now is to put DNS service OUTSIDE the registrar - so that switching one doesn't have to impact the others.
Why these providers don't let me create the NS Zone before transfer confounds me.
IIRC Spaceship (Namecheaps soft-relaunch) lets you set up your DNS records as soon as you initiate a transfer to them, before it completes, so the records are ready as soon as the nameservers switch over. Not sure about the original Namecheap, I haven't used them for a while.
Domain registrars, however, usually do not operate forwarding DNS resolvers. They typically only answer queries for zones that they are responsible for, and give you an NXDOMAIN response for anything else. For this reason, nobody would use a non-forwarding DNS as a resolver for their computer since it would make it near impossible to reach hosts on the Internet (unless you happen to query a record for one of the zones they provide service for).
They say they sell domains at cost, which is a red flag since it means people who only use them as a register are going to be the first to go when they start loading up the enshittification bandwagon.
I don't care about the price of domains. They're relatively cheap even with the mark up from your typical registrar. What I care about is peace of mind that I won't lose my domain due to an incompetent registrar, or will have to scramble to transfer everything again because of reasons outside of my control. Cloudflare doesn't offer that.
I've now decided to move to Namecheap. Idk how solid they are, but they seem to have been selling domains for a very long time.