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by Brajeshwar 1056 days ago
NameCheap.com, Name.com, and other domain registrars are good options. There are too many options. I use three of them for all my domains.

DNS is taken care by Cloudflare (this can also be by AWS Route53).

Emails, hosts, and others can be with Google, Proton, Fastmail, AWS, et al.
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putnambr 1056 days ago
Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy. DNS propagation, domain 'locking', etc. is so much easier to manage and faster using registrars who care about their business. Hover comes to mind, recently I've transferred everything to CloudFlare.
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Brajeshwar 1056 days ago
Ah! Will think over this. I have too many domains and I might need to pick a good one for some of the primary ones that I do not want to lose.

I have heard good things about Cloudflare as a registrar. In-fact, I suggest them to a friend who uses it. However, I user Cloudflare for DNS for most of my domains. SO, I won't move the domains registration to them.

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reaperducer 1056 days ago
Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy.

DirectNIC. Based on Louisiana. Very professional. Been around forever.

Not the cheapest registrar, which is a feature, not a bug.

If your registrar is competing based on nothing but cost, it has to make up the money by cutting elsewhere.

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no_wizard 1056 days ago
I've heard through the grapevine that Namecheap will buy and resell domains based on what you search. does anyone know if there is veracity to this claim?
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alyandon 1056 days ago
Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.
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Brajeshwar 1056 days ago
I hope my experiences continues. I have had, so far, no issues. In-fact, I have recovered quite a few lost domains, forgotten renewals etc with the help of their support team.

I have heard (know two founders) and I had experienced that domain grabbing-on-search with Godaddy! I won't go anywhere near them.

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qingcharles 1056 days ago
How many searches do they have a day? 100,000? A million? I don't even know how they would determine what to buy?
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