Since Google Domains is shutting down, I am looking for a new place to transfer my domains. What are others using for domain registration?
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I use namecheap.com with the DNS on Cloudflare
Namecheap is great
Seconded. I have multiple domains on name cheap, and manage those domains with cloud flare. Even my self-hosted stuff at home. Especially my self-hosted stuff at home. Maybe google wouldn’t notice a ddos, but my shitty spectrum internet sure would.
Cloudflare currently.
Have used Google, Amazon, namecheap too.
Just. Don’t use godaddy
Ahh damn it google. Why do I ever trust any of their products?
Current favorite and where most of my domains reside is Porkbun. Secondary choice would be cloudflare.
I like gandi.net. Their UI is pretty inoffensive.
I’ve been happy with Gandi but their future looks bleak. Gandi was bought by Total Webhosting Solutions/now your.online a couple of months back, which is pretty bad news. They’ve been purchasing Dutch companies and increasing prices while letting their services turn to shit for a while now. The raised prices came in a few weeks ago, we’ve yet to see the services turn to shit but I am extremely confident it will happen.
Gandi is just the first international purchase by TWS, so not many people know it, and there are few relevant references on the English-speaking web as most of this was localized to the Netherlands. You’d have to search on Dutch tech news sources like tweakers.net and use some translation tool to find anything meaningful.
Ah that’s disappointing, I’ve been a pretty happy (occasional) user for years. Enshittification hits everything eventually :(
Recently their prices have skyrocketed, Gandi are now poor value for money.
Oh really? That’s a shame. Do you have a better alternative?
The majority of my domains were with Gandi, they’re now with Porkbun.
Also, check out this link for prices/offers, etc:
Thanks for that website, really useful!
Didn’t know this existed
Porkbun worked well for a newb like me.
my go-to for anything they support is porkbun: they’re cheap, reliable, and technically competent
for backup for domains they don’t cover, 101domain has a huge selection
for actual DNS hosting, i use cloudflare (migrating from dnsimple) but also wouldn’t be against route53
I’ve been using namecheap for years and redirect DNS through cloudflare. I think my yearly renewal is around $25. I’ve been thinking of transferring to cloudflare, but their pricing model is really expensive for their other products and don’t really want to feel pigeonholed if my price gets inflated above what I already pay.
Namesilo. Genuinely cheap, and fantastic service every time I’ve needed to ask something. Plus: free privacy!
+1 for namesilo Website is absolutely barebones, but it does everything I need including allowing api access for dns challenges from let’s encrypt.
Lately I’ve been registering domains directly at Cloudflare. If you’re a Cloudflare user anyway then it’s super convenient!
The only downside is that they don’t support less popular TLDs (yet).
I use selfhost.de (they register domains via united-domains for you) who are specialized on self-hosting in Germany and offer a wide variety of options on how to connect a domain using dynamic DNS.
I’m about to migrate everything from Gandi to porkbun. So far the UI has been really good.
Few people mentioning cloud flare as their go to alternative. Whilst I’m sure technically their service would be great, I am sceptical keeping both the registrar and DNS under a single account. Am I being paranoid?
Dreamhost is really great
What? Google domains is shutting down?! Damnit!
More info at https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-domains-to-shut-down/
Now out of the blue, Google Domains is shutting down and Squarespace is buying all customer accounts, barely a year after the product exited beta.
So Google domains becomes square space domains.
Same here! INWX is great
