A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/
I'm planning to migrate out.
I'm planning to migrate out.
Where to?
I have like 20 domains with them, this is really bad news for me.
I was at GANDI but they became absolute trash and hostile towards their customers as well, hence why I left for Namecheap.
A few years ago, I experienced absolutely stellar service from Gandi when (due to negligence of the previous registrar) I had trouble moving a domain in.
A couple of months ago, my main domain was offline for over a day due to a configuration snag that I could not resolve on my own, and Gandi's customer service now has ridiculously short hours (pretty much only in the morning), took quite a while to respond, and didn't provide much background info on the underlying issue.
I was amazed by the drastic change in quality, and I'll move my domains out soon. Where to is a still open question, though.
EDIT: I just read in a sibling thread that Gandi has been bought by private equity a while ago, that explains a lot.
- Cloudflare
edit: I remember now – I could't even see pricing easily on their domains page and I still can't. If I am picking a domain registrar I'd rather pick just a domain registrar that does normal domain regisrar things (and preferably nothing else, or not much).
[1]: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/72-how-to-push-a-domain-into-...
Sounds like a great way to prevent domain theft.
It's a great place to keep your domain names. Beyond that is up to you.
Compared to the Namecheap and GoDaddy stories, Cloudflare has been a gift to use.
The process is standardized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062595
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470260
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507411
Looks like I'll be transitioning off of Namecheap now too.
Kiwifarms is literally a doxxing site.
I wanted something in the EU, so I went with INWX - their UI is quite unintuitive/bad in my eyes though. I guess Hostinger/IONOS/Gandi/... would also be pretty popular for anyone like me.
I used to use TransIP.nl and while they are still good, they’ve gotten expensive over the last few years.
S&Ps use MarkMonitor.
(And since the records are size-limited, per-GB is roughly the same thing.)
"Except for Alias A/AAAA records mapped to AWS services listed below, you incur charges for every DNS query answered by the Route 53 service."
But for domain registrations alone it's fine.
[0] Tucows, which stands for "The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software"
Based on just my multi-year experience with a reliable interface.
So anyone else with a view on the company might chime in. But I am writing this because I have been very happy with them. None of the glitchy inscrutable experiences so many companies manage/love to design into their services.
Oh, the checkbox that turns off automatic renewal can take a second or two to register. So not perfect, but close. If that sounds trivial, you have understood why I like them.
I just always use a plausible but false and unique answer, which I just keep track of in my password manager.
This isn't a good idea....
If using random text, there are many examples of, when asked to answer a secret question, telling the call centre droid "I just hit a few random keys for that one" and this being accepted.
You would do well to assume each call centre droid is a board kid more interested in his co-workers tits than your clever answers to security questions.
Also my real mother maiden name is almost equally hard to comprehend for english-speaking tech support, so it doesn't make much of a difference.
It's plausible, hard to guess, and harder to social enginer than "It's a bunch of random letters and numbers."
- Porkbun doesn’t have this bullshit, how do they get by?
Also, banks are really different from domain registrars in several important and relevant respects, but, for the record, I don't have to tell it to the banks I use, and if I did, I'd probably be looking for a bank that I don't have to tell it to.
I've been waiting for the "porkbun screwed me" stories, but haven't seen any yet.
Are there any decent non-US based domain provider remaining at all?
That is the actual name of the company, not a statement on the scarcity of decent non-US based domain providers.
They also make no secret they have a political slant and use their power to enforce it - they will defend a piracy website from legal attacks but they will take down a neonazi website even without receiving any letter about it.
ok? Should we not be removing trash from the internet? A company shouldn't need to be told to take down hate speach.