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I want to get some domains for selfhosted stuff, but I'd like to use a registrar that I won't regret doing business with later, both in terms of ethics and potential customer service stuff. Who do y'all like most?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve been happy with Hover for several years. They don’t bug me and they’re owned by Tucows so they’ve got decades-old staying power.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried......GoDaddy???

giggles as the downvotes pour in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately yes, and I hate them with everything I've got.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

INWX has been great so far, have been with them for about 6 years at this point. Also had good experiences with their customer support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

-1 for INWX. Still waiting on a domain transfer, domain is stuck for about a month, chat support was useless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

+1 for INWX

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I moved all my domains from Google to OVH, OVH have an API so you can get certs with certbot. You could also use the API to update records for a dynamic home broadband

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a server with OVH. I hadn't realised they're a registrar also.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I’ve been a happy customer of Metaregistrar for over a decade. No complaints, fair prices. Just moved a .be from Gandi there because they wanted to charge me €30 excl. VAT for 1 year. Retail price of .be by DNS.be is about €5 and Metaregistrar only charges me €7,5 excl. VAT for a .be for a year. Was at Gandi with that domain because they used to offer free mailboxes with domain name registrations but have since stopped that. Shop around people!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the tip, I'm getting pissed off at the Gandi .be prices as well, just ludicrous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Tested porkbun and namecheap. Namecheap has a nice and reactive support from my experience. Porkbun also helped me quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I have two domains through Porkbun. Never had an issue with them. No-nonsense, simple UI, good prices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I've used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.

Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.

Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@wetdog love porkbun. Love their API.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been using Namecheap for almost a year now with no complaints

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I’ve been with namecheap for years too. No complaints

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gor acquired and rised price.

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