Canadian name registrar?

I have a bunch of domains on NameCheap but would like to move them to a non American company, preferably Canadian but just not American is good enough honestly.

What are you guys using?

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masterspace@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I've used easydns forever. It's cheap, Canadian, been around since 1998.

https://easydns.com/

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

They look good! Thanks! 🙂

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

We've been using https://www.canspace.ca/ and they seem to be pretty solid. Cheaper than easydns

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

They came up a lot in my search and seem great! Thinking I might go with them

jdjbdjrkdh@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Oh, merci! Je vais regarder ça. J'ai vu le registraire fullhost.ca aussi, avez-vous expérience avec celui-là? (désolé pour mon mauvais français, j'apprends encore)

folkrav@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ton français me semble trùs bon, aucun besoin de t’en excuser!

Si tu es ouvert Ă  une correction, il manque un “de l’”: “Avez-vous de l’expĂ©rience”. Note que ce n’est absolument pas un problĂšme pour la comprĂ©hension, la phrase Ă©tait trĂšs claire et bien formulĂ©e, c’est simplement un petit dĂ©tail de grammaire.

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Merci, j'apprĂ©cie la correction :). Je vais m’en souvenir pour la prochaine fois. Je suis content que je suis comprĂ©hensible lol

jdjbdjrkdh@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Sorry for the french bad habbit of.mine I switch alot between them.

I do not know fullhost.ca, im still interrested by your findings.

ninthant@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I moved my domains over to EasyDNS.ca because they are supported by both letsencrypt and acme.sh — happy with their service so far and zero complaints.

cherrykraken@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I've switched to EasyDNS as well, over from AWS.

If you're on the lower-tier/unicast plan, have you had any issues with MX records for email? I set up mine ~10 days ago, and A, CNAME, and most TXT records are working flawlessly, but anything email-related fails to resolve 30% of the time (checked through 3rd party DNS lookup tools, as well as just sending/receiving test messages seeing what gets through).

ninthant@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Unfortunately haven't, I don't rely on any of my personal domains for email.

I did just re-check to see if the email forwarding was working correctly, and it is -- but if it was failing sporadically I'm not sure I would even notice because my usage of it is so minimal.

For what it's worth, I did need to use their email support once and they were very pleasant and easy to work with.

liverpoolbutter@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Oh, that's a good point. I bought my latest domain with Canspace, but I'm not seeing anything about DNS challenge support

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Sweet, i'll check them out! Thanks :)

bowreality@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Namespro.ca is great

quaff@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They're great! I eventually switched from them for a better UI/UX though đŸ„Č

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

While i agree that their UX is stuck in the 90s, how much time do you spend managing domains that it bothers you so much?

The thing that REALLY bothered me for a long time was the lack of 2FA, which they only fixed a few years ago

quaff@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Which is probably why it took me years to move off of 😅

quaff@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
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DemandOk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
fishtaco@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Tucows, easyhosting, and rebel are all Canadian registrars I've dealt with.

Nemo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

I moved my domains for self hosted apps to fullhost.com and flipped the to .ca while I was at it. They claim to be the cheapest .ca registrar but I'll be honest I haven't fact checked that.

They also seem to have a pretty complete offering for everything a business would need to host things with a Canadian company.