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Anyone able to recommend namecheap?

Been looking to ditch enom.

I've started using Namecheap after the SOAP story. Still didn't migrate all my domains from GoDaddy, but get a much better experience with Namecheap: their site works correctly, do not try to trick me into buying extras, support actually answers (didn't solve my issue, but that was because it couldn't really be solved).

Anyway, I'm already looking into migrating to Gandi because of Namecheap's lack of support for DNSSEC.

I find gandi's interface a little confusing at times, but the "No Bullshit" tagline is taken seriously.

Isn't DNSSEC trivially defeated right now, as any machine will accept a non-signed DNS record currently? I don't see any rush to get in on that, if you can beat DNS with an MITM, you can just as easily downgrade DNSSEC right now. We're many years away from DNSSEC actually being viable, if it ever will be. Wait till it's actually being enforced by OS-level resolvers or there's simply no threat model in which it is beneficial.

Well, not defeated, but bypassed.

It's still extremely easy to use it securely, just refuse to load a non-signed record. But, of course, it's not really desirable to do that for any query, just for the ones you care about.

Hey guys - Tamar from Namecheap here. Just an FYI - we've been promising this for quite some time and we're still working on it. I can't offer an ETA just yet, but it's on our roadmap.

I've been with them since SOPA. Never had issues but I'm not power user.

I'm using Namecheap and GoDaddy. Both works functional wise. So given the reputation Namecheap has and GoDaddy has not, I will go with Namecheap for the future.

Why not just transfer all the GoDaddy domains to Namecheap? I did that after numerous terrible GoDaddy experiences and couldn't be happier.

Godaddy supports a lot of international TLDs that Namecheap does not.

I recommend Gandi (https://gandi.net) for TLDs namecheap does not support. Both companies are extremely good, no-bullshit, against censorship, took a stand against SOPA, etc.

They've been mostly fine for us

* We haven't been able to transfer all our domains as they don't support all the TLDs (notable we have an .it domain languishing on godaddy)

* Their admin UI is still pretty confusing and bad. Granted not as bad as GoDaddy...

* The one time I used chat support it took 20 minutes for them to pick up

Also last I checked they were still an enom reseller.

Namecheap support has been sketchy recently. I tried to add an IPv6 glue record through a ticket recently, and didn't get any response whatsoever after about a week. The only way I was able to get an answer was to use their live chat feature.

Other than their support via tickets, they're a decent registrar.

Thanks, everyone. Switching this weekend.

No DNSSEC, and it's been that way for countless years while they still promise to do it.

Try Gandi.

I have had nothing but great experience with Namecheap.

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