Just as the title suggests, wondering everyones thoughts. I have a bunch of .com domains at ResellerClub and looking for a new home that supports privacy protection (free I hope), and dnsssec.

RC is simply not cutting it anymore and they do more and more unhandy shady stuff there. I pay a little less than $12/domain today.

I considered namecheap, but they seem to be getting pricey these days.

Hello Community, Im checking since days and comparing and after creating a big excel sheet with my domains and prices I figured out I’d like to transfer all my domains (46) to another Registrar. With my actual registrar I’d pay 1300€ renewal cost per year and with f.e. Porkbun it’ll be 860€. Even if I would split my domains between 5 different Registrars I could get down to 550€ per year, but this it to much work for me handling the different interfaces and updating all creditcard info and so on.

So, Porkbun is abbot recommendation here in the community. Namesilo (NOT Namecheap) and Blacknight are mostly unknown.

What do you think of Blacknight? Any experiences? What is with Namesilo compared to Porkbun? Do you see any showstopper or did you have any bad experiences? I like to „move and forget“.

I have no special requirements, just mx, A, AAAA, TXT, CNAME. All other stuff is optional and great

Best wishes to you :-)

I've had all my domains with Namesilo and had almost no problems over the last 7 years, besides naked @ CNAME redirects annoyingly being not supported, but that's another story.

Now they've raised prices already third year in a row and by A LOT! Their .com is now an insane $17.29?! Years ago I chose them due to good privacy policy and having one of the cheapest prices, but ever since Brisio Innovations Inc. acquired them (another data point for a private equity firm ruining a perfectly run company), they've started increasing prices on everything by a lot!

It's almost $7 on top of what Verisign charges, and just last year it was only $13.95! 20% increase in one year is not to cover any inflation, it's to rack up cash fast before they kill the company!

I think I'm done with them.

Are there any Namesilo alternatives that you can recommend that support free Email and URL forwarding, and free WHOIS privacy, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?

I see Porkbun has it all, and seemingly good reviews, but I don't know how legit they are. Maybe some of you had experience with them?

Maybe you have other alternatives?

Appreciate in advance any feedback, guys!

Hello!

I'm interested in a domain name registrar and I think I want it separate from a hosting service. I guess I'm wonder in your experience which is the best of these three in 2020 in regards to management, services, and prices.

I'm open to other recommendations!

looking to register a few TLDs, each for at least a few years for personal use. i’ve been using godaddy for a while and feel like i can get better deals on domain names elsewhere.

Hi, I think I'm ready to buy a domain name, while I have considered Google, I hear that is some wariness due to Google not being primarily a domain registrar.

(And is it true that it's better to have your domain separate from hosting for the most part?)

So I've heard good things from these three and was wondering which would you all consider the "best" based on features, support, and ease of use for managing a domain in 2020?

I am open to other recommendations.

Thank you for your time!

EDIT: Okay, at the moment, nothing is narrowed down but to my amusement, Google is now added to my list of options.

And I guess I should have reworded my title better to invite more responses to this generic question.

I read a lot of positives and some negatives on Namecheap and Porkbun. I am curious on real users of both of these provoders experience. I use Hostinger for few Years, its time to move to some other hosting peoviders.

Hi everyone,

just reposting because my last post did not meet this subs requirements..

btw total noob here...

I'm wanting to create a website to have my services as a tutor, just a simple landing page with a the option to book and purchase lessons .. nothing too fancy, and in terms of traffic .. not thousands per month.

Im considering porkbun for my domain purchase - i hear good things about it and its cheap.

but im not sure which hosting to choose - I see that namesilo has hosting for $2.99 a month which is very affordable considering a site I had with bluehost years back cost me about $150-200 a year.

Does anyone have any experiece with namesilo hosting? Will it be sufficient for a basic website?

I would be keen to hear any recommendations about it OR other hosting websites if you have any...

My monthly budget is max $10 for hosting

I'm located in Canada - my users are located all over the world - South America, Europe, Asia

I would be hosting a wordpress site.

estimated traffic volume each month: not sure but probably less than 500 (although I would hope higher in the future!)

I'm not sure what vps's are (as asked in this subreddit questionnaire)

I have looked at the sidebar hosting suggestions.

Thanks!

Hello everyone.

I want to create my personal website, it's going to be related to IT and tech stuff and I have a problem with choosing where I should register my domain. Currently thinking about Cloudflare (best price - 8.6$), porkbun (saw some good opinions about them - 9.2$), or Google Domains (I wouldn't have to create another account - 11.3$).

I would appreciate it if someone could point out some pros and cons about these three or recommend something else. My only requirements are to know the renewal price (with no hidden costs), a fair price, and free WHOIS privacy protection.

Thanks in advance!

Can anyone recommend? I’m looking for a new registrar that ensures you are the owner of the domain, has email, all the domain and whois protection services, etc. I have been using gandi.net for about 30 years but the prices have gotten unreasonable at almost $40 a year renewal for a dot com. Both these registrars were highly recommended to me.

I really appreciate the advice and apologies if this question is out of place for this subReddit. Cheers!

Hey All - My Google Domains started getting moved over to Squarespace this past week, and it's been a less than stellar experience. Not only do I not to control what account these domains end up in, managing domains in Squarespace is not what I'd call straight forward.

As a result, I went to the Interwebs and Reddit to see what was recommended. The same 3 kept getting recommended: Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap

The trend on Namecheap - which I used a decade ago - is that it is no longer actually cheap, with constant price hikes & advertisements, so I ruled them out and decided to split my domains between Cloudflare & Porkbun, to see how the experience was. Worst case, I move the domains again in 60 days, if one is really horrible (yes, I would need to pay the cost to extend one more year).

Since there have been a few threads on this topic, I figured I'd share where I fell out - with details, in case it helps you make your decision:

• Cloudflare

  • Pros

    • Has every enterprise level feature & customization you could want, within policy (see below), although many of these are upsells

    • The transfer process is done in a way where it's very hard to screw up the DNS settings post-transfer (e.g. you need to move the NS over before you can initiate transfer)

    • Cheapest domains out there

    • Been around for a very long time, and relies on other revenue, so not likely to go out of business

  • Cons

    • The interface is very "heavy"; It's clearly built for Enterprises, not prosumers, and so it can take a bit of searching to find the thing you want

    • It feels like Cloudflare takes positions on the "right" way to do things, and for those things, there is no workaround. Examples include:

    • Not all ccTLDs supported yet (but the ~200 they cover were all I needed)

• Porkbun

  • Pros

    • Simple & straightforward, albeit quirky, interface

    • You can pretty much do whatever you want, including domain masking & email forwarding without pre-approval (this could also be abused)

    • Probably the 2nd cheapest domains

    • Other redditors have commented that their customer service is fast & friendly

    • I didn't count but their supported domain list seems much longer than CloudFlare's

  • Cons

    • Been around as long as Google Domains, so unclear if this business model is sustainable

    • UI is not the prettiest, or the best laid out, but it's so simple that's it's pretty easy to figure out

    • Because you can do anything you want, you could transfer your domain and lose all your previous settings, which would mean you would need to figure out what those records would need to be/reverify your domain

A good example of the experience between these two is SSL.

• Cloudflare: Since you had to have CF NS in order to transfer, CF automatically enables SSL (great!). To find that they did this, you would go to your domain, click on the SSL section, and see in the Overview that you have "Flexible" SSL on by default vs Full vs Full (strict) ... or off. Now they use diagrams to explain what each of these is, but you need to dig to understand what the difference is here vs a standard LetsEncrypt cert on a server. It turns out LE certs are equivalent to "full" (to my best understanding) and that "flexible" means just the connection between browser and CF is encrypted. So you can go and switch it to full ... for every domain you have.

• Porkbun: They have a simple listing of your domains, where you click details. One section is "SSL". If you click the small edit button, it will tell you that they can only generate SSL for you if you use their NameServers, and they give you a single click button to make the switch. You push the button, they update, and tell you that a cert is being generated using LetsEncrypt. You need to check back to see status switch from "Nothing yet" to "Have certificate" in green. This takes 10-20 minutes. You could do this rapidly for all domains, as they are all listed in a flat list. If you switched to their NameServers during transfer, this step is automatically done.

For me, while Porkbun is a bit fast and loose (and doesn't have as many options as Cloudflare), it's been a more enjoyable experience. I also didn't like that Cloudflare prohibits me from masking, and I'm worried about what else they will prevent me from doing in the future. While I understand some of these settings can be abused, they also can allow me to provide a more pleasant experience for simple things, like not showing an "ugly" URL.

If I was running an enterprise site, where I needed to tweak the hell out of everything to ensure optimal load times, while fending off DOS attacks, and needed workers to handle different end points with different situations, Cloudflare would be a great fit. I'm not doing that though.

I'll probably let these domains sit on both of these registrars for another 6 months to see if anything really breaks (I still have to see how the Sites redirects land). If something major pops up, I'll update the post.

I hope someone finds this helpful. :)

UPDATE (2024.07): I'm all in on Porkbun. Cloudflare made basic changes complicated and Porkbun support is absolutely phenomenal.

Still deciding where to buy domain from, Namecheap or Porkbun? Any advice? Pro(s) & con(s) from experience?

It's $12 on GoDaddy for the first year.

Does it actually matter?

It says after the first year it's $20.

Also a second question can I just buy it on GoDaddy for the first year and then change who I buy it from after that or are you stuck with godaddy forever?

Searching for your best domain registrar and the reasons why it's the best in your eyes. I'm currently at Namecheap with over 20 Domains but as of now I might need to move them to a new place. Please be as specific as needed.