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by artificial 2212 days ago
Which registrar is recommended?
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I have used hover for years and quite like them. The customer support was awesome when I had an issue with getting a .com.au domain setup for a business. Australia has some extra requirements for domains that I wasn't familiar with. I also like to have my domains separate from everything else so if I move hosts/email providers it's easy.
I like easydns - don't know who they resell thru, but it's awesome being able to call and get a real engineer on the phone and not a call center.

I've been using them for years, and never had any technical issues...

They have their own accreditation for .COM/.NET/.ORG/.INFO/.CA (and maybe a few others) else they fallback to Tucows OpenSRS system, which is decent except in the case of needing advanced features like DNSSEC (for certain TLDs) where they seemingly have a "Half Life 3" type schedule of deploying new features
I personally prefer Gandi, but also use name.com and Cloudflare - haven't heard any horror stories about either of those 3 registrars.
Gandi had its own horror story not too long ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822

I am a fan of NameCheap personally.

Cloudflare Registrar had some issues at one point but they had more to do with a broken system that assumed the domain was purchased elsewhere than anything else, if I remember correctly. Their support apparently handled that case very well.
I've been using Porkbun for a while now
I've been happy with my dedicated providers: IWantMyName.com (registrar)and DNSMadeEasy.com (DNS).