I have to do it for work and I’ve got no idea, there seem to be so many scammy looking sites
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Namecheap has been fine for me so far. Avoid godaddy.
Why avoid godaddy?
A friend had a niche site for educational material links take off a little bit and GoDaddy jacked up the price of the domain on her.
sketchy, noted
Go Daddy. The name alone is just plain creepy.
Give me a 100 word summary of the controversies surrounding GoDaddy and its founder.
GPT-4: GoDaddy, a popular web hosting service, and its founder Bob Parsons have been involved in several controversies. Criticism often targets GoDaddy’s provocative advertising strategies, which some deem sexist. Parsons himself has faced backlash for his elephant hunting video in 2011, which many viewed as unethical and sparked a wave of customer boycotts. Additionally, GoDaddy’s initial support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011 provoked outrage for potentially threatening internet freedom, leading to a significant customer exodus until the company reversed its position.
I have had a really good experience with Porkbun. You could also use Cloudflare. But since this is going to be work-related, Cloudflare all of the way.
Godaddy is the big one that I’ve heard of.
Disclaimer: I’ve never registered or managed a domain. I just remember their commercials from back in the day.
Please don’t use GoDaddy. They’re scum of the earth.
Tell me you haven’t used Network Solutions without telling me you haven’t used Network Solutions :p
Network Solutions!? What a godawful company they were to deal with back in the day. Loved it when their monopoly over domain name registration was cancelled.
Oh, they’re still a bitch today. Been in the process of moving my work’s domains off of them over to Porkbun for cost-savings and the peace-of-mind of not having to deal with them.
Like, they apparently switched from offering more expensive Windows webhosting over to cheaper Unix webhosting - but because we signed up for the Windows servers for webhosting, they’ve been charging the company $175 a month for the past couple of years and never bothered to tell anybody about it until I recently asked about it and demanded that they lower the cost they’ve been charging us because they can’t do refunds :) Also they nickel-and-dime the shit outta their customers - like WHOIS privacy is $13 a year per domain with Network Solutions while it’s free on others, including GoDaddy.
GoDaddy might be shit, but I sincerely hope every single person who works at Network Solutions will get fucked by a rake.
A sharp metal garden rake to boot. Stripping Network Solutions of its monopoly was one of the best decisions ICANN made.
Hah, oops. HousePanther likely knows more than me. Heed their warning!
I’ve had domains stolen out from under me by GoDaddy. Fuck those guys! But seriously, I don’t blame you for not knowing.
Lol, thanks anyway dude
I personally do all my hosting with tsohost.
I used to use them, then they hiked my ultra cheap deal up by 700%, so screw them.
I just used google, but you can use pretty much any big service (they are all priced similarly) if you are worried about scamminess. I also didn’t feel like being harassed for “website builders” or the other crap smaller providers try to sell.
Porkbun
For personal domain registrar I use Hostpoint, because Swiss privacy.
If it’s for work, AWS Route 53.
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Name.com is great! They’re local to my area and have always been fantastic to deal with. I’ve used godaddy, Google, name cheap and wouldn’t recommend any of them
Same. Been using them for years and they’ve always been solid.
Haven’t done it since a very long time ago so probably there are better players out there now, but Gandi or GoDaddy maybe? I’d lookup their reviews (especially the negative ones) on Trustpilot to see all the gotchas.
Definitely not GoDaddy
I use porkbun since they take crypto as payment
Good to know. They didn’t accept an mc gift card
Cloudflare domains is decent but doesn’t support many domains, porkbun is my next choice and I used to use Google domains.
Cloudflare registrar or Porkbun are my goto’s. Keep in mind that Cloudflare registrar currently requires you to use their (free) DNS service, you can’t change the nameservers yet.
Cloudflare 100%
I use Google Domains, but I believe they’re either getting rid of it or selling it off.
I may have misheard it but arent they already? I believe Linus anf Luke from LTT talked about it on the WAN show
Not too sure-- I remember receiving emails for my accounts-- but I just checked domains and it’s still up, allowing you to purchase more.
That will probably end like Stadia. One team in the works of producing a game while management is already deciding how to close down the project…
cough https://killedbygoogle.com/ and https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/ * cough*
And yep Google Domains is on the guillotine. Better secure it quickly.
I’ve been on namecheap for a long time. They have a sale going on now. But they are really good, hardly ever a problem and if there is, their customer service is stellar.
