Good domain registrars?

Back during the SOPA fiasco I remember GoDaddy was in favor of the law. Presumably because the main anti-piracy mechanism the law proposed would be domain name take-downs. Once your domain's taken down you'll need to buy a new one to keep operating, so GoDaddy was certainly on board.

Namecheap on the other hand opposed the bill. They also were the first major registrar to accept Bitcoin back in one of the old hype waves. I don't know if their record is spotless but they've earned my business.

I use namecheap for domains. To be fair, I honestly don't keep track of the domain registrar industry besides 10 minutes every year to refresh them, but nothing bad, or good I guess, has really happened in the past 4 years. Which is what you want from a domain registrar, I guess.

I'm waiting for Drew DeVault to launch his registrar.

He has been teasing it as a part of source hut for about 3-4 months and even though I'm not entirely sure it's not somehow tied into it exclusively - ie, can't use the domains if not attached to custom source hut installations - I can hope it's not.

I've used Gandi in the past though not currently. Not the cheapest but reliable, established and trustworthy in my experience.

I use NearlyFreeSpeech for hosting, they do registering too. I like them. It turns out they're a little more expensive but I already use them for hosting so. If you do that (and they're a great deal on hosting) I'd recommend.

I used GoDaddy in the past, since it seemed cheaper, but found them a bit unpleasant, and the price is lower only for the first year, usually. Now I use Hover, haven't had a problem yet.

I use Njalla to register and manage my personal domains. It was founded by one of The Pirate Bay founders, Peter Sunde, and here's what he had to say:

“Njalla is needed because we’re going the wrong way in society regarding people’s right to be anonymous. With social media pressuring us to be less anonymous and services being centralized, we need alternatives,”
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“All key parts of the Internet need to have options for anonymity, and the domain name area is something which was never really protected. At best you can buy a domain name using ‘privacy by proxy’ services, which are aimed more at limiting spam than actually protecting your privacy.”

Of course, since it promises anonymity there are some questionable users and the Njalla blog is full of the same childish humor that TPB used to have. Therefore, one may want to avoid Njalla for its profile-raising nature.

I use DynaDot. They seem to be pretty reasonable and not affiliated with shady practices (last I checked). There's also Google Domains. Google may be shady, but probably not in the domain registrar business.

I have about four domains (I tend to cycle through a variety of silly names depending on what's cheap at the time) through Namecheap and they've never messed me about. They also mask your WHOIS information by default which is nice

I moved recently to Cloudflare. They guarantee your renewal price will be at cost. You get the added benefit of all the free Cloudflare services for your domain. I'm also fairly confident that Cloudflare does domain security better than most registrars, given their existing business and talent pool.

I really like Porkbun.com. The pricing is almost always the best, free whois privacy, etc. I've got about four or five domains with them.

Also, https://tld-list.com is handy. NameSilo and some other common ones are so sketchy these days.

I used to use google domains, but they recently changed their UI and now I find it unusable. Namecheap and porkbun are both fine. Stay away from godaddy and gandi.

Used Namecheap for a long time. Now I use Cloudflare.

I've been using Pair Domains for decades and remain a very happy customer. Good feature set, reasonable prices, easy self-management tools, and on the rare occasions when I've needed customer service their response has been fast, friendly, and on-point.

I use domain.com . I don't know if they're good but they're probably better than godaddy...

I use hover.com—the stereotypical podcast domain registrar. They did help me port in most of my domains without issue, years ago, and I just continue to buy silly domains with them all the time. They're probably not the best value, but also probably aren't that far off. I do think they have some of the best coverage in the new TLD space, though.

I previously used joker but a few years ago changed over to namecheap. I also use baremetal for my .ca domains.

I am wanting to register a .rs domain, so if anybody has any experience with such a registrar, I’d appreciate some advice!

I've been satisfied using joker.com for over 20 years since seeing it recommended by DNS & infosec expert Daniel J. Bernstein (djb).

I’ve been very happy with iwantmyname.com - they have an awesome search interface that I use all the time (searches all tld’s at once) and a simple/elegant admin panel. I’ve only had to interact with their support once, but they were fast, friendly, and helpful.

👍👍 will buy from them again.

I use a combination of Amazon and Rebel. I've had no problems with either.