Is it one that you just use and works just fine? Or one that has proven to be reliable and responsible if they do a mistake and only want to satisfy you as a customer?
I use Namecheap. They have a URL you can visit to update DNS records if you’re doing it from the server that you need to point DNS at. They’ve been pretty much…non-eventful. I’ve never had to call them, everything online, they’ve been reliable enough to just say my whole experience has been pretty boring. Boring is good. I log into them once every 2 years to renew my domain and that’s generally it.
Then on top of that I use Caddy for SSL Encryption/Reverse Proxy. All I need is the domain registrar, I don’t use any other services.
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Have heard that searching domains through the site can cause the domain to become unavailable or prices to go up briefly afterwards… kind of like how go daddy also has a reputation for doing that. Anecdotal and second stories for sure but something to be aware of if there is any credence to it…
I’ve seen it with GoDaddy but not namecheap.
I’ve experienced this and also read reports of it with GoDaddy. But I cannot say the same for Namecheap - I’ve searched for several domain names multiple times through Namecheap and never noticed a price increase (outside of a sale ending and/or the search being multiple weeks later, at which point it makes sense). I’ve also never seen any detailed reports of this happening with Namecheap, and if I’ve seen any at all, I can’t remember them. I have occasionally searched for a domain name that was later unavailable, but that happens infrequently enough that I doubt it’s due to Namecheap doing something nefarious.
I use them too, but have a few complaints and am thinking about switching.
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Dynamic DNS doesn’t support ipv6 addresses
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You have to have a $50 account balance to use DNS based dynamic dns
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Buggy DNS editing. (Try to create a SRV record then edit it later. It never works properly. Always have to delete and make a new one)
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Their customer support has been great. I needed help with some certs and they just walked me though everything.
Cloudflare works really well and has a good UI. Namecheap also works well, but it takes more clicks to adjust DNS records.
+1 for Cloudflare.
That said, there are a number of folks rightfully concerned about the sheer mass of information Cliudflare has access to through their Content Delivery Network (their primary service). This raises potential privacy concerns, especially for self-hosters, who tend to prefer not to rely too heavily on any one large company. However, you don’t actually have to use their CDN service to make use of their minimally-priced Registrar functionality, and personally I really appreciate the services they offer. Their free tier is really impressive, and incredibly useful.
For some reason every registrars dns panel has its own weird restrictions, bugs and interface quirks. Pointing the nameservers to Cloudflare at least makes for a consistent experience.
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Cloudflare - largely because they don’t add on extra fees.
Having recently setup an UnRaid server I used a walkthrough video on setting up SSL certs for them through Cloudflare and Google Domains. Was already using their DNS (1.1.1.1) and had an account so made that it an easy decision, then Google decided Domains would be sold off so I fully migrated to Cloudflare. I find the free tier to have more things included than I even understand and it does everything I need.
You have to use their name servers though, don’t you?
Pork bun
Porkbun has been my best experience by far
Namecheap has been good to me for a decade now, and I don’t really have complaints at all
Looks like consensus is NameCheap or PorkBun
For the frugal sysadmin, Free DNS!
I’ve been with namecheap.com for over a decade and I have no complaints
I’m with namecheap, they are considerably better than my last registrar.
Not Gandi. They were very reliable since the beginning of the internet but they sold the company and went downhill since.
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Aw man, I had no idea they sold
Porkbun, mostly for the cost, transparency, clean UI, and ease of use.
I’ve used GoDaddy, namecheap, and Google Domains in the past. GoDaddy is the only one I had a problem with, but Google sold to Squarespace recently, and I prefer porkbun to namecheap for the reasons listed above.
I really want to say Gandi but they charge too much now and removed the free mailboxes.
Anyway, I’ll vouch for Netim. Their prices are similar to (old) Gandi and they have a mailbox too. I’m looking into Spaceship for some other domains because they’re really cheap.
I recently switched to Porkbun from Namecheap specifically because I found Namecheap’s “advanced DNS” settings to be somewhat excruciating to use, plus I also (finally, after doing it manually for a good few years) got around to setting up Certbot autorenewal, and there’s not really a good way to do DNS challenges for autorenewal with Namecheap. Just generally I find Porkbun’s UI to be very simple and streamlined without actually hiding anything from me. I also found that my domain renewal prices went down with the switch, something I didn’t even consider when switching.
That being said, Porkbun and Namecheap are literally the only domain registrars I’ve used. For all I know there could be something out there I’d prefer way more.
gandi.net , didn’t haven’t to pay for any privacy bullshit like whois masking, and all that stuff is enabled by default. I like them as a company.
I use porkbun because i can and do pay with crypto to renew my domain.
Does porkbun support dynamic DNS and subdomain? Looking to move from Google and that’s a requirement for me.
Honestly, i am not sure
