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I spent two hours one time transferring all my domains (~10) to Google Domains. What a relief to be done with that company. There is not one honest step in the GoDaddy flow, you really have to keep your hand on your wallet.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, no interaction with the domains team though.

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How is Google’s support for domains ? I am very hesitant to buy anything from Google that may require support, as an Android developer I’ve heard too many horror stories to trust Google in this area (basically, there is no way to even talk to a human being, you can send an email and get a canned response from a bot. You’re better off talking to a brick wall).

It's exactly what you can imagine. I'd instead recommend gandi.net. It's a few bucks more but they take their motto to heart.

I posted this on the reddit too:

I tried to buy a domain with gandi. I left it in my cart for a day and then the price went up $20 dollars. I loaded up the Tor Browser, searched the same domain name and it was back at the normal price. It would stay that way even when i looked up new .scot domains. Proof: https://i.imgur.com/7kMutbB.png . The "no bullshit" moto just sounds like Googles "don't be evil" moto, bullshit designed to fool geeks into thinking they're honest people. Does there even exist a site to buy domains that doesn't do this bullshit?

The current price on .scot domains is $49. Perhaps you're seeing a difference due to exchange rate? This is the first and only report I've ever heard of Gandi even remotely doing something like this. Unlike Google, Gandi actually does live up to its motto. And like Google, if they ever fail I'm ready to jump ship.

On what date was this picture taken?

[Edit] I just checked the exchange rate on google and 49usd is 67aud. Looks like it was just an exchange rate mixup on your part.

I think you are right, which makes me feel quite stupid. I think what tricked me is that I must have logged in to gandi at some point and then come back to look at my cart I'd made while logged off and it switched to AUD, which also uses $, so I thought it had changed without me doing anything.

I really like Google Domains. $12 a year gets you a domain, private registration, transfer lock, DNSSEC, IPv6 support, and Dynamic DNS (using DDclient). Before Google Domains I used GoDaddy - so perhaps I'm just comparing it against a terrible service to start with, but that is a lot of features for a flat low rate.

On the other hand, I don't like Google and I'm in the process of exiting their ecosystem completely. DuckDuckGo, just got my first iPhone ever, switching to ProtonMail, using Firefox, Pi-Hole to block google analytics. Router configured to drop all traffic to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Weirdly, Google Domains will probably be one of the longest holdouts of all the Google products

Unless you make heavy use of Dynamic DNS I can recommend iWantMyName. Have about 10 domains with them and really like them (one-click install of many popular services, generally they don't send you any mails unless it's necessary), on the other hand I do not have much experience with any other registrar.

Recently went through the same process. I really like the management interface and tight integration with GSuite.

They don't support all of the latest TLDs though, so be sure to check first if you want to do a complete port away from your current registrar.

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