What registrars do people like nowadays?

For personal projects, I've favored gandi.net for many years, but I'm trying to get a few candidates together for the organization I work for. Not a fan of GoDaddy, NetworkSolutions, or many of the all-in-one web host / registrar / app hosting / whateverelse sites.

Hoping there are a few modern alternatives out there that I haven't seen yet. We had all of our domains on Google Domains, but since they got bought by Squarespace, I'm surveying our options.

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MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Porkbun and namecheap for me

treadful@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y

Yeah PorkBun has been pretty solid for me

elscallr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Been with namecheap for years, no complaint at all. Their interface is good enough for most things and if I need anything more complex than they make easy I just stick in an NS record and do the fancy shit in Route 53.

mholiv@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

AWS and Cloudflare are my go tos depending on the client. Both have top tier tooling and broad support.

podperson@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

I used Cloudflare for other things, but looks like I can't use their registrar services unless I use a "full setup" (explained here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/transfer-domain-to-cloudflare/). We have quite a few domains that point to our organization's name servers. Have you used outside name servers with Cloudflare before?

cerement@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
zeograd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I was a long date happy gandi customer until this year shenanigans (steep price increase and free mailbox tier suppression).

I'm switching bit by bit my domains to OVH

mankeulv@lemmy.latrans.cloud · 1 pts · 2y

I second OVH, been using their services for the best part of 2 decades now, and I can't see myself migrating out unless something big happens.

I really love the ease of editing DNS zones and the free dynamic DNS with your domains. A self-hoster delight, for sure.

TechyDad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I've been using DirectNIC for quite some time.

alr@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

I'm on Hover. They'll host and email inbox for you, but not a website.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y

Again? Why are there so many identical posts about this?