Since Google Domains is shutting down, I am looking for a new place to transfer my domains. What are others using for domain registration?

  • sporez@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Current favorite and where most of my domains reside is Porkbun. Secondary choice would be cloudflare.

  • Hanhula@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Namesilo. Genuinely cheap, and fantastic service every time I’ve needed to ask something. Plus: free privacy!

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Few people mentioning cloud flare as their go to alternative. Whilst I’m sure technically their service would be great, I am sceptical keeping both the registrar and DNS under a single account. Am I being paranoid?

    • withersailor@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Now out of the blue, Google Domains is shutting down and Squarespace is buying all customer accounts, barely a year after the product exited beta.

      So Google domains becomes square space domains.

    • chameleon@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been happy with Gandi but their future looks bleak. Gandi was bought by Total Webhosting Solutions/now your.online a couple of months back, which is pretty bad news. They’ve been purchasing Dutch companies and increasing prices while letting their services turn to shit for a while now. The raised prices came in a few weeks ago, we’ve yet to see the services turn to shit but I am extremely confident it will happen.

      Gandi is just the first international purchase by TWS, so not many people know it, and there are few relevant references on the English-speaking web as most of this was localized to the Netherlands. You’d have to search on Dutch tech news sources like tweakers.net and use some translation tool to find anything meaningful.

    • PupBiru@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      +1 for porkbun! i don’t have a bad word to say about them: cheap, reliable, technically competent

  • PupBiru@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    my go-to for anything they support is porkbun: they’re cheap, reliable, and technically competent

    for backup for domains they don’t cover, 101domain has a huge selection

    for actual DNS hosting, i use cloudflare (migrating from dnsimple) but also wouldn’t be against route53

    • Maximilious@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using namecheap for years and redirect DNS through cloudflare. I think my yearly renewal is around $25. I’ve been thinking of transferring to cloudflare, but their pricing model is really expensive for their other products and don’t really want to feel pigeonholed if my price gets inflated above what I already pay.