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Ask HN: Which Registrar Has the Best Domain Management Tools?

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If you own a lot of web domain names, with various expiration dates, it can become challenging to manage them all. Let's temporarily forget about cost, sleaze factor, and abundance of up-sells. Which registrar makes it the easiest to manage your domains? (search / sort by various criteria, see domains expiring soon, renew easily, transfer away easily if necessary, etc.)

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I've used Joker since 1999 and have had nothing but excellent experiences.

They don't spam me, their DNS service is rock-solid, and their website (while a bit lacking in the graphical design department) is fast, clean, and ad-free. I also get clear, to-the-point reminders when a domain is up for renewal.

I have dozens (not hundreds or thousands) of domains registered, but I would recommend them without hesitation to anyone looking for developer-friendly registration and hosted DNS.

Amazon's Route 53 now supports registration and has an API.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/reg...

Name.com has always seemed painless to me.

Usually on registrars I feel like i'm digging to find something or figure out how to do something, Name.com makes it always feel like a click or two away somehow.

I use gandi.net and am very happy.

The only con is that they are based in France, so if you are in the United States, and use a credit card, you could get declined transactions due to fraud protection.

Being based in France could a plus for some. I had a friend whose website was getting shut down by GoDaddy with each DMCA report without bothering to contact him or validating the claim, so, he moved to Gandi and he's been super happy. I do have pretty active accounts with both Gandi and GoDaddy and have to admit that GoDaddy is better - it lets you organize domains in folders, has the ability to do mass operations based on folder structure, allows you to create and assign WHOIS profiles easily. The big issue is that they don't have an API and are not planning to have open anytime soon. I really miss GoDaddy having tags in addition to folders, and the API, of course, but nobody can beat their pricing (when you have the Discount Domain Club). In addition, if you have a lot of domains, they assign you an Account Executive, who can do a lot of things for you for free.

Do you have a "coporate account" with them? I wanted to register a country specific domain (Irish) and noticed that a) I need to sign up for their "corporate services" which presumably is a paid subscription and b) their pricing for .ie domains was €75/year compared to ~€20/year elsewhere

I do not. I only have a regular account I guess since I don't pay them any additional fees. Some country code TLD's have made me fill out extra registration forms however.

I like hover. Very low on the distractions scale.

Yes, I've used Hover lately and been very happy.

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