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I want to get some domains for selfhosted stuff, but I'd like to use a registrar that I won't regret doing business with later, both in terms of ethics and potential customer service stuff. Who do y'all like most?

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

INWX has been great so far, have been with them for about 6 years at this point. Also had good experiences with their customer support.

[–] Mora@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

-1 for INWX. Still waiting on a domain transfer, domain is stuck for about a month, chat support was useless

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

+1 for INWX

[–] brighteast@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I’ve been a happy customer of Metaregistrar for over a decade. No complaints, fair prices. Just moved a .be from Gandi there because they wanted to charge me €30 excl. VAT for 1 year. Retail price of .be by DNS.be is about €5 and Metaregistrar only charges me €7,5 excl. VAT for a .be for a year. Was at Gandi with that domain because they used to offer free mailboxes with domain name registrations but have since stopped that. Shop around people!

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the tip, I'm getting pissed off at the Gandi .be prices as well, just ludicrous.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Have you tried......GoDaddy???

giggles as the downvotes pour in

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately yes, and I hate them with everything I've got.

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Every time I think GoDaddy has hit bottom they find a way to dig deeper.

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[–] azalty@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago

Tested porkbun and namecheap. Namecheap has a nice and reactive support from my experience. Porkbun also helped me quickly.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

I have two domains through Porkbun. Never had an issue with them. No-nonsense, simple UI, good prices.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I've used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.

Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.

Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I migrated from IONOS and Namecheap to INWX because it does support both domains I use.
And their prices were reasonable.

Migration was quick and neat. Had to issues doing it.

[–] ryan@social.binarydad.com 2 points 5 days ago

@wetdog love porkbun. Love their API.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah,one of the few drawbacks they have. Most people can live with it, but it's indeed one of the things they should be providing by now but don't

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

Is this important when self hosting?

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been using Namecheap for almost a year now with no complaints

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I’ve been with namecheap for years too. No complaints

[–] eksb@programming.dev -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Got acquired and rised price.

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