[scull7]

Well, since they’re making me think about it…

What registrars does the hacker news community recommend?

[xd1936]

Cloudflare Domains sells at cost and has been great.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

[Shakahs]

Cloudflare Domains is not a legitimate registrar option because you are REQUIRED to use the Cloudflare nameservers. If you want to use different nameservers, you have to transfer the domain out to a different registrar.

[georgel]

Moving domains to another Cloudflare user is a total pain though, especially if you sell your site to someone.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/b...

[chewmieser]

Would also recommend. They support a lot of extensions and you’re not going to get it for cheaper.

Been slowly abandoning my namecheap account…

[tracker1]

Porkbun is where I'm moving everything. If considered cloudflare as well.

Currently moving my dns to digital ocean and cloudflare. After that, will start exfiltrating the domains to porkbun.

[kevmarsden]

I transferred all my domains to Porkbun. Their renewal prices are low and so far, I don't have any complaints.

[rycomb]

Pitifully, Porkbun's marketplace depends on Paypal... Otherwise it'd be perfect!

[eslaught]

Hm? They appear to have Stripe and crypto options too, as well as Alipay.

[_xivi]

The trinity: Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap

[whitepoplar]

strongly endorse cloudflare and porkbun. namecheap is ehh.

[readyplayernull]

Anyone that isn't Godaddy.

[gerdesj]

Why?

We use quite a few registrars and GD is far from the worst, in my opinion.

[brewtide]

Namesilo.com Since... 2012? I think? Never found a reason to change? I never see it suggested in these lists for some reason -- Maybe I've been missing something all along...?

[scull7]

From reading the Protonmail Reddit this one pops up a lot:

https://njal.la/about/

Anyone have experience with them?

[predictabl3]

Simple, straight forward, privacy friendly, crypto payments, support was about 5x faster with Njalla than Gandi.

It's more expensive but I don't care. It's pennies a day difference and it's critical infra, not something yo cheap out on, especially given the horror stories of other registrars over the years.

I moved everything there.

[fbdab103]

I just use AWS. Probably not the cheapest option, but I know they will not play games with domain sniping or other kinds of nonsense.

[Tesl]

I think Namecheap is the goto recommendation on hacker news.

[nicbou]

I have been with them since forever. I see no particular reason to switch, although I find their UI rather clunky.

[canadiantim]

I’m about to switch away from namecheap, been meaning to ever since they cut off a subset of their customers without much warning or recourse. Haven’t gotten around to it yet but I’ve since lost trust and wonder whether that couldn’t happen to me next if I continue using namecheap. So just be careful if your views don’t align with theirs.

[pkulak]

Just checked my account, and I'm 10 days away from my 20-year anniversary. Holy smokes.

[tguvot]

been using joker for 25 years or so