I’m using PorkBun and I’m happy with them
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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I second this. They're upfront about pricing and don't have many different products so the interface isn't overwhelming.
Porkbun's competitively priced, easy to use, and the name is a great reference for Sleeping Dogs to me. What's not to like?
This is who I use as well. I’m happy w them
Pork bun
Porkbun has been my best experience by far
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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Looks like consensus is NameCheap or PorkBun
I've been with namecheap.com for over a decade and I have no complaints
I'm with namecheap, they are considerably better than my last registrar.
Cloudflare works really well and has a good UI. Namecheap also works well, but it takes more clicks to adjust DNS records.
For some reason every registrars dns panel has its own weird restrictions, bugs and interface quirks. Pointing the nameservers to Cloudflare at least makes for a consistent experience.
+1 for Cloudflare.
That said, there are a number of folks rightfully concerned about the sheer mass of information Cliudflare has access to through their Content Delivery Network (their primary service). This raises potential privacy concerns, especially for self-hosters, who tend to prefer not to rely too heavily on any one large company. However, you don't actually have to use their CDN service to make use of their minimally-priced Registrar functionality, and personally I really appreciate the services they offer. Their free tier is really impressive, and incredibly useful.
gandi.net , didn't haven't to pay for any privacy bullshit like whois masking, and all that stuff is enabled by default. I like them as a company.
I currently renew my domains on namecheap and manage the records on cloudflare. Namecheap's web interface is trash (doesn't work in Firefox for no reason) and I dread every time I have to touch it. I'm currently considering just moving the registrations to cloudflare too.
Same. Their API is now too slow for LetsEncrypt DNS challenges. :(
Cloudflare is great though.
I just moved my registrar from namecheap to cloudflare since they started supporting .dev domains and it's infinitely better. Was already using them for the dns challenges cuz I'm not paying for SSL certs.
Leave the registration with NC and move the DNS to cloudflare. You should separate the two functions anyway so you have fallback ability for both. If the DNS is borked, you can go back to the registrar and change name servers, and if the registrar is down, it doesn't affect your DNS.
I use porkbun because i can and do pay with crypto to renew my domain.
Does porkbun support dynamic DNS and subdomain? Looking to move from Google and that's a requirement for me.
Honestly, i am not sure
Porkbun have a ddclient plugin on GitHub. Subdomains are supported. They've got a full API, so if something isn't supported, someone can probably implement it relatively easily.
Not Gandi. They were very reliable since the beginning of the internet but they sold the company and went downhill since.
Currently namecheap, but I was pretty mad to see that API access (for ACME DNS record auth, which I need to prevent downtime) was not available due to my yearly plan being too cheap (?!). You need to spend at least 50$ per months or have at least 20 domains for no good reason.
The best solution seems to acquire the domain using namecheap and then transfer name servers to a better service.
I've always used OVH. They are reputable, always been responsive to my questions and have an API to handle many things, including domain names, which is handy for DNS-01 challenges with Caddy and libdns.
I usually pick whoever has the best deal when I want to register a domain.
I recently switched to Porkbun from Namecheap specifically because I found Namecheap's "advanced DNS" settings to be somewhat excruciating to use, plus I also (finally, after doing it manually for a good few years) got around to setting up Certbot autorenewal, and there's not really a good way to do DNS challenges for autorenewal with Namecheap. Just generally I find Porkbun's UI to be very simple and streamlined without actually hiding anything from me. I also found that my domain renewal prices went down with the switch, something I didn't even consider when switching.
That being said, Porkbun and Namecheap are literally the only domain registrars I've used. For all I know there could be something out there I'd prefer way more.
Am I the only one using iWantMyName.com?
Like some of the others described here, I like that their ui is dead simple and easy to navigate, once a year when I have to renew. And their prices seem to be middle tier.
I use them right now, but I’ve been disappointed lately and I’m considering moving away. They’re more expensive than other options and you have to contact customer service for some things, but their response times are pretty slow. E.g., they don’t have an interface to add glue records, so you have to ask them to do it… when I did this it took them a couple days to get back to me, and they forgot to add the IPv6 records too. My other domains are registered elsewhere (for cheaper) and they just had an interface to do this and it happened instantly. I keep running into problems like this with iwantmyname and it’s been kind of frustrating. I had problems with their name servers dying for a bit recently too… I was happy with them for years, but they’ve caused enough problems for me lately that I’m wondering why I’m paying extra for them.
Funny you posting on this older comment of mine today - I am in the midst of a support case with them. We'll see how it turns out!
They usually get it sorted out pretty well, but their response times can be a little slow. It’s potentially not a huge deal for you, and overall they’ve been okay… this is sort of understandable because they’re in New Zealand and seem to want to make sure their support staff are paid well (though they were bought by a larger company recently, so I'm not sure if this still holds, seems like it did as of 2019, though):
- https://iwantmyname.com/blog/making-customer-support-sustainable-with-a-small-team-based-on-a-tiny-island
- https://iwantmyname.com/blog/the-one-salary-experiment-ten-years-in
This makes them seem like a cool company, and I'd like to support them... But despite that I do feel a little disappointed paying more for a worse service, and I think they really need to invest in providing interfaces for some of the more advanced DNS settings, particularly if their customer support is going to be limited by their own admission.
They also have some blog posts about customer service that give me some weird vibes...
Definitely in support of their customer service team in this example, and don't want them to be treated poorly or sworn at or anything... But it's a little weird to put this on blast like this and I think it'd be a better look to just leave it at "these are the things that would help us help you, we need to make sure accounts are secure so we can't just ignore passwords, etc etc"
And it's also a little weird that they have this post complaining about some web-hosts poor interface and customer service too:
Neither of these are particularly bad, but I guess it makes me a bit disappointed that I've run into similar problems with them, and I'm not sure they're doing enough to address things on their end.
I don't think I'd tell anybody not to use them because they have been good for the most part, but they're not as fully featured as other registrars in my experience, and they're more expensive.
ClouDNS.net... I mean, it works.
I really want to say Gandi but they charge too much now and removed the free mailboxes.
Anyway, I'll vouch for Netim. Their prices are similar to (old) Gandi and they have a mailbox too. I'm looking into Spaceship for some other domains because they're really cheap.
AWS (Route53 specifically). Not common but my personal lab runs on AWS so it's nice to have a place for everything.
Dnsimple for me. Swapped from GoDaddy like 10 years ago and haven't really felt the need to explore elsewhere, the costs are pretty good and never had any issues.
1984.hosting, because it's the only one I know that does not require you to run any propietary software.
a domain name and vps are two different things?
They have domains too, but very little choice. Still looking for proper domain registar in this style.
AWS Route53. Lets me keep all my domains in one place. If Cloudflare did .au I’d switch to that.
I've been using namesilo for years without issue
I used Namecheap for several years and was happy with it, but the numerous price increases finally pushed me to switch. I recently decided on Porkbun after the many positive reviews I read online. It is affordable and has a very clean interface that doesn’t constantly nag me about purchasing other services. I’m really liking it so far.
nja.la
OP also asked why your domain name provider is your favourite provider
This doesn't answer ops question just linking a website without explanation of why you like this domain name provider
Doteasy Web Hosting
Goddady. It's cheap they have my local currency.
I've been with GoDaddy for going on 20 years.
Its worked well for me. I started off with their web hosting, but these days they just handle my domains. They've got an API so you can use them as a dynamic DNS provider as well.