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@gintoxicating@transister.social you should do something fun with your domains :3

@gintoxicating I registered mine at OVH. They're an European cloud provider where I also intend to have my future fedi instance and website hosted. When/if I ever get around to doing that.

@gintoxicating @matildalove Hostinger. I left Dynadot years ago when they stopped offering low-end hosting services. I was on GoDaddy before that, but left way back when they were ultra-sexist.

@gintoxicating used to be on NameCheap but just to be safe I've moved to Arsys, a Spain-based registrar where I also got VPS hosting as well (having moved from Linode). IIRC it's a subsidiary of IONOS, which is Germany-based, but as long as it's all inside the EU it's fine for me.

@gintoxicating Been using INWX as my only source for a while already and I‘m very happy with them.

@gintoxicating Well now that I know about Porkbun because of this poll, I might have to move my domains there!

Fucking GoDaddy….

See when I first heard that name I thought it was a pimp site

@gintoxicating@transister.social porkbun

@gintoxicating porkbun or ovh depending on the price and availability

I use OVH.

@gintoxicating I've been using Namecheap but I think I want to switch: https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/115607643790886503

I just haven't had time to evaluate alternatives, I don't know what would be better or more trustworthy.

@gintoxicating bookmyname and OVH (don't want to put all my domains at the same registrar)

@gintoxicating i think it might skew heavily EU and German providers. I use Domaindiscount24 / Key-Systems personally

@gintoxicating netcup, because it is cheap and works.

@gintoxicating

TigerTech.net

I loves them. I have 5 domains personally, one of which has been active since 1999.
I've probably helped another ~30 or so, and not one that is still active has left.

They either do just the domain, or roll the domain in with hosting and auto renew it unless you request otherwise.
They also charge like ~$20/year for any additional domains including renewal and hosting if they're under a single billing account.

You might want to look at @beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com

@gintoxicating Tucows but I'm my own reseller.

@gintoxicating@transister.social

i usually choose inwx or Netcup.
But I have some domains @ dynadot too.

I always look at https://tld-list.com/ for the best (or good) price before registering.

@gintoxicating WTF? I know almost none of the options, and those I do know are "Why on earth would I do business with *these* people?!"

I'm based in Germany, and have used previously:
* United Domains
* Schlundtech
* 1&1

If I were to register now, my go-to is:
* njal.la

@gintoxicating gkg

@gintoxicating I have a soft spot for academic/research networks, and both my local ccTLD and its accompanying "default" registrar are still run by a university (all the way from when its entire registry was an Excel sheet) so I'm currently using that.

@gintoxicating /etc/hosts

lol

@gintoxicating Just recently I finished moving all my domains from Gandi to hosting.de

@gintoxicating domeindirect.nl - they also run our dedicated server for websites and email.

@gintoxicating I use @beasts
Don't use godaddy. Don't even look for DNS addresses on their site!

@gintoxicating I use a small nordic registrar: nordname.com

@gintoxicating NEVER use fuckin godaddy! They steal domains

@gintoxicating Mostly I use Scaleway, but they don't do UK domains so I use Ionos for those.

@gintoxicating The country one (argentina) (.com.ar)

@gintoxicating i've been using porkbun and it's been positive so far.

• pro: parent company owns the .gay tld and donates money to LGBTQ+ charity
• pro: cheaper than others from my limited survey
• con: partnered with proton after proton's ceo praised trump

i'd love to learn about a registrar i can unabashedly cheer for though. https://glauca.digital/ comes close but last i checked they don't support my site's tld

@gintoxicating I use bbonline, a UK-based company who publish an actual honest-to-cthulhu phone number which gets you through to an actual honest-to-cthulhu tech person who can identify and fix any problems you might have, and will usually do so immediately.

@gintoxicating@transister.social I've been using Forpsi for 20 or something years. It's a local Central European provider. Domains with gTLDs that they don't have available live at Marcaria. DNS records live elsewhere though.

@gintoxicating some registries sell it direct, and sometimes it's also cheaper than going through a third party. e.g. https://isnic.is is less than a third of the price for *.is compared to most places I see. (last search showed many at $150 or $350 per year, but direct is about $50)

@gintoxicating ovh

@gintoxicating I currently use Gandi, OVH, and Porkbun for different domains, although I’m going to transfer the domains on Gandi to Mythic Beasts and/or Porkbun (Mythic Beasts doesn’t do .xyz so I can’t transfer everything to there), because Gandi raised prices for .org a lot (and I forgot to cancel automatic renewal in time last year). OVH I need to keep for .edu.pl, there aren’t that many other options.

If I was registering a domain now I’d probably use Mythic Beasts or Porkbun, depending on the TLD.

porkbun is my go-to since it got a good bang for buck in some domains, never had a single issue with their customer support (they are actually helpful unlike with some major companies)

namecheap is.. fine. i don't use it because i'm used to my default registrar, but it's not like they're terrible

unlike OVH, where they gave me the worst headache where my domains didn't work for a long time despite properly setting up DNS and their support was useless so i had to just hope they fix it

any others i didn't bother with

@gintoxicating
Hostpapa, but only because the Irish company I used sold that to Hostpapa.

But ultimately Domains and IPs are USA Gov controlled, though outsourced. They should be controlled via ITU (which though now part of UN existed since 19th C. for telecommunications).

While I'm on a rant, why does the FCC have any authority for anything other than USA Terrestrial spectrum? Why are they approving satellite launches?

USA has too much control over Internet and Space. Run by Corporations.

@gintoxicating
It's a scam.
You can only rent.

@gintoxicating mostly namecheap or porkbun but I've had to register my last two on Dynadot as almost nobody sells .nz domains!

@gintoxicating dnsimple

@gintoxicating

longlandclan.id.au and vk4msl.id.au were registered through Zuver, that got taken over by VentraIP.

vk4msl.com was registered through Google Domains (in response to AuDA threatening a @bcshort over his callsign .id.au domain) a couple of years back, they sold their domain business to Squarespace.

@gintoxicating

Other:

• Today: I have started migrating domains to Mythic Beasts (GB) my new default
• But I have used joker.com (DE) for most of my domains for 2+ decades
• For the special case of .au domains I use Cheaper Domains (AU - of course)

@gintoxicating I'm surprised no one mentioned https://www.spaceship.com yet as it is a subsidiary from Namecheap to provide a modern infrastructure and cheaper registration (sales).

@gintoxicating I used namecheap. It was a garbagey-junky experience, but it *was* successful.

@gintoxicating

https://baremetal.ca

donates to a charity of your choice when renewing at no cost to you. real humans answer the phone and email, good tech support, appear to be legit old internet folk in Victoria, BC (Canada). I've used them for at least 20 years including hosting

@gintoxicating
I use infomaniak

@gintoxicating I've been a happy Hover customer for a long time

@gintoxicating name.com

@gintoxicating@transister.social I use glauca digital if I can

@gintoxicating voted porkbun and ovh is my backup when they don't support a tld

@gintoxicating I use A&A, but partly because it's convinient that they just add it to my monthly broadband bill. I'm not sure I'd recommend them specifically unless you're a customer with them for something else. Not that it's bad, but a few things need their support to action.

@gintoxicating

25yrs ago, I was using godaddy and 123reg for .com and .co.uk domains.

Since I stopped working on or owning domains about 12yrs ago, I've not even looked into them.

But if I was registering a domain... it would be with an EU based registrar.

@gintoxicating NameISP. Moved to them a few months ago from a mix of Namecheap and Webbsupport (fka Binero).

@gintoxicating pair because my domains are old

@gintoxicating other ( @beasts )

@gintoxicating this should've been multiple choice I fear

@gintoxicating

WordPress?

@gintoxicating

I lucked into getting a reseller account at eNom for zero cost well over 2 decades ago and got (and kept) a premium pricing tier with it.

I've occasionally used other registrars and transferred really cheap intro priced domains into my eNom account to keep the huge increases in recurring years go away.

I doubt that I'd get the same scenario these days, but I most likely would be with someone else.

@gintoxicating Scaleway

@gintoxicating My domain is registered with @beasts

@gintoxicating For me personally the register is just the register where I'll buy them. After that it's mainly just setting their nameservers to other providers where I'll actually manage the DNS entries. This means when picking a register I focused on the ability to change that namserver and costs being close to the TLD Managers'.

Also I don't really focus on deal prices as any domain I grab I kinda expect to hold long term.

@gintoxicating@transister.social squarespace but only because i was at google domains first and then they sold their domain registration to squarespace

and back then google domains was like 1€/month for most common TLD and no marketing bullshit which I liked

@gintoxicating i use INWX.

@gintoxicating other: DomainFactory

@gintoxicating DENIC.

@gintoxicating I used to use godaddy but switched to easydns like 8 years ago. No fuss, simple DNS record editor.

@gintoxicating I chose other because I use Dreamhost for both my hosting and domains.

@gintoxicating I just just dreamhost, because all I’ve been using is email, wordpress, and static sites.

I wouldn’t mind something else if I could install my own software, but I really don’t want to sysadmin a site

@gintoxicating tbh, i have like 20 domains, but know barely more than 3 on that list, while i'd be able to count probably a dozend of other registrars
we must be in compleltey differnet bubbles

@gintoxicating I have moved all my domains from Gandi to OVH, or to lws.fr, which is my favourite French registrar and web hosting company. Gandi's prices are ridiculous, I was happy to leave them.

@gintoxicating

I do not recommend godaddy. I pay for "premium protection" on my domains and I'm being spoofed. And I can't even get a live person to check into it, much less do anything about it.

#GoDaddy sucks.

Runaround forms, piles of AI "responses," and always automated claims there's no problem. No real customer service at all, just slop.

And the kicker? My dashboard says "no threat detected." Meanwhile I'm being spammed by hucksters pretending to be me.

Move domains asap.

@godaddy

@gintoxicating

r4l.com

one guy doing his thing. specifically non-evil.

@gintoxicating my instance says this poll has 863 votes what the heck

@gintoxicating bluehost, and hostpapa (because I got shifted to it after it took over Canvas which was a local renewable energy provider)

@gintoxicating Renewed them at Gandi before they were sold, after my twenty years as a customer, and enshitified. God, I was pissed. Still pissed. I'll never not be pissed. I'll move them somewhere else in 2031 when I renew them again. (after thirty years at Gandi).

@gintoxicating I just registered a domain with GoDaddy a couple weeks ago, then immediately got hard-marketed to with AI bullshit. It took about 1 minute to register my domain, and almost half an hour of texting tech support to get my refund. I owned the domain for less than 40 minutes (~10 of trying to turn off AI chatbots and auto-generated landing pages, and 30 trying to get a refund). Now they're sitting on the domain name I bought for 30 days, so I can't register it elsewhere.

@gintoxicating happy INWX customer for over two decades.

@gintoxicating Porkbun is very much not a safe option for anyone, as they partner with Cloudflare (proud hosts of Nazis and the majority of malware and phishing) and are US-based. They will hand your data over for the asking.

This extends to multiple TLDs as well as they are US controlled. I've been moving to .de and .ch with providers that can actually protect me, like INWX. (I've also been very pleased with INWX's support and ability to transact exclusively 'in' Switzerland.)

@gintoxicating supporting a local NZ registrar — OnlyDomains

@gintoxicating DNSimple

@gintoxicating Namespro! Canadian registrar!

@gintoxicating Used to be Gandi before they sold to PE; then moved to Porkbun for a bit (who seem great), and finally trying out Hover (tucows reseller) and a few others as part of my de-USA-ifying journey. Still haven't settled on just one yet, TBQH.

@gintoxicating Tucows (Hover). I chose them because they’re Canadian.

Fun fact, enom is also owned by Tucows.

@gintoxicating https://njal.la for me, a bit pricier than others but they take Monero and offer truly anonymous registration (with opt-in ability to provide real registration info), and have a bunch of ccTLDs for plenty of jurisdiction choice if you're worried about censorship/copyright/trademark disputes.

@gintoxicating I was on Google, but they sold it all to Squarespace so I am there, but it was not a decision I had any say in.

@gintoxicating hover

@gintoxicating Name.com.

@gintoxicating 100 % regery.ua to support Ukraine ! They're cheap and reliable ! #Ukraine

@gintoxicating somewhat embarrassingly, I'm using AWS. my previous registrar gave me basically zero control over the DNS, and AWS was the only one i knew at the time that would give me total control over everything.

@gintoxicating I don't host any instances but I registered my website with WebSavers! I found them via my new favorite repository for canadian tech alternatives, and these guys are based in Halifax.

The repo in question : https://worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alternatives

@gintoxicating I currently use DreamHost. Although my renewal is coming up, and the price more than doubled compared to last year. So I may jump somewhere else.

@gintoxicating Other: Gandhi

@gintoxicating @Taffer Hover

@gintoxicating All my domains are with Mythic Beasts, and I'd happily use them again. But I discovered on my first renewal that they are a Tucows reseller so went with that option. I've never dealt with Tucows directly so no idea what they're like.

@gintoxicating currently with Gandi though considering moving at next renewal, though the next place will need to have some sort of API driven thing for my terraform setup

@gintoxicating I answered Namecheap, as that's who I use now, but I'd also give a shout-out to 34sp.com, who I used to use. I had multiple domains with them and they were always good.

@gintoxicating hosting.de (no, not hostinger). Very good prices, excellent API, domain registration independent of DNS service with very flexible DNS server options (including primary, secondary, secondary with hidden primary) making it trivial to migrate to them without interruptions, subaccounts with fine granular access privilege management (if you want to let your own customers manage their DNS but not buy more domains, for example) and so much more outside of domains/DNS

@gintoxicating
Cloudflare, for the tunnels

@gintoxicating INWX

@gintoxicating [extremely French answer] @lebureau_coop (cooperative registry, though for now they only go through other resellers, they are applying for becoming a proper .fr registrar)

@gintoxicating Netim on the criteria of European and not totally unreasonably priced for .mw (sorry INWX).

@gintoxicating Domainhoster.com

@gintoxicating It does depend on the TLD, but generally Porkbun or Portfast.

@gintoxicating I’ve been using INWX, because they’re the only European provider I’ve found with a Terraform provider.

@gintoxicating

https://cix.uk/

@gintoxicating Gandi.net but its so expensive that im looking more and more to Porkbun but I didn't migrate my domains over Porkbun because not EU based... I do have some few new domain over there but I am a bit reticent to move even if its like 50% cheaper...

@gintoxicating IONOS or Namecheap, whichever is cheaper. usually that means namecheap

@gintoxicating Infomaniak

@gintoxicating I use mainly antagonist.

GoDaddy are scammers by the way.

@gintoxicating I chose the "other" option. I use a company called Hostinger for my domain registration, as well as hosting (should I need it)

I used to use Namecheap. Would definitely recommend them. Only reason Im not with Namecheap anymore was bc of my choice to move all my operations out of the US .

@gintoxicating
Other: ICUK
Which is where my current ones are registered (and hosted).

@gintoxicating I've never had an issue with Gandi, but I've never needed much from a registrar so YMMV

@gintoxicating nearlyfreespeech.net is a good one

@gintoxicating name.com

@gintoxicating nearlyfreespeech.net! They mostly do hosting, but we don't use their hosting 'cause it's not the kind of hosting we need.

@gintoxicating https://anexia.com/en/

@gintoxicating other: GoDaddy and a local artisanal web-whisperer

@gintoxicating #ClouDNS!
https://cloudns.net

• At least I'd use them for #DNS because that works great there.
  • I used some big domain-hoster that had basically all TLDs but was more expensive.
  • #GoDaddy, #NameCheap et. al. get their #WHOIS crawled by #spammers whilst refusing to handle #AbuseReports.
  • And #ClowmFlare is a #RogueISP knowingly and willibgly hosting #Cybercrime and #Terrorism!

@gintoxicating I use bnamed.net can't recommend them enough!

@gintoxicating With my host, because its easy, though I'm 90% sure they just resell one of these.

@gintoxicating i use Hover

@gintoxicating I probably should transfer my domains off Namecheap one of these days but I need to time things right and it's always easier to just hit renew

I have like 3 domains on WebNames.ca because they have some TLDs Namecheap doesn't support

@gintoxicating

STRATO

@gintoxicating Hetzner
Can't find a better quality support.