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Registrars I've ever used are regery/spaceship/netim/ovh/porkbun/cloudflare/etc...
Tucows have done for many years
Incognet
Dynadot for most of my domains. Gives you bulk pricing when you cross a certain yearly threshold. Good support, even on chat. And prices are competitive if not the lowest. And has a good API too!
Mainly Spaceship and Porkbun.
Moving from Namesilo to Dynadot for years. Cloudflare and Spaceship sometimes has cheaper price.
Namecheap and spaceship
sav.com and internet.bs
Openprovider
Spaceship
But the UI is confusing
Having your domain registrations split up between half a dozen different registrars is both difficult to manage as well as a recipe to miss renewals.
If you are afraid of missing renewals, that's what auto renew is for
Until your credit card expires...
Renew in advance and put more years into them. Or add credits
I have some domains with them and have encountered several problems:
I had enough with this provider and in a process migrating away.
Currently using Dynadot, Spaceship, Cloudflare, and Namesilo (not cheap anymore, plan to migrate away from NS too)
Sav, Cosmotown, Dynadot, Openprovider.
@>; @JosephF said:
I use DomainMod for this purpose.
The truth of the matter is that domain name registration is a commodity. Any registrar does the same thing. All you need from them is to point your domain name's nameservers to wherever you want. You can choose any third-party DNS service (such as Cloudflare, HE, AWS Route53, NS1, Afraid FreeDNS, ClouDNS, etc.) and simply control all your domains, from all your registrars, in one central DNS provider. The only thing you'll then ever need from your domain registrars is to take care of annual renewals.
So there's no real reason not to choose the lowest cost registrar, so long as they don't have a reputation of messing up renewals or seizing customer's domains.
If you have a large portfolio of domain names or are reselling them, you might want to consider Register.com:
https://partnerships.register.com/
No external DNS servers for domains registered at CloudFlare:
> "6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS."
https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
I use Google Domains Turkey. I'm waiting on the squarespace transfer but until then I've renewed multiple .net/.dev/.org for 10 years for 2.5 eur/year. .com is still 5 eur
Do they accept orders from outside Turkey?
They used to, but no longer since they sold to squarespace
We put our domain names in the
hostsfile, which is then uucp'ed daily to all the computers in the network.This is much cheaper than paying off both the registrar and the ICANN.
Did anyone mentioned name fckin crane yet?
No, because domain registrations are not available yet.
cloudflare.com or porkbun, but more on CF as of lately since we end up managing DNS there anyway.
I manage my domains on CF, too, but don't register domains with them due to their inflexibility in permitting use of non-CF nameservers for your domain.
And, that, there's no downside or loss in using another registrar and still having the full suite of CF services.
I use Porkbun, Spaceship, NameCheap, XDomain, Cloudflare Registry, etc
Cloudflare
CF