Porkbun is sort of the darling of the self hosting community. I settled on them after doing a huge comparison of prices and features of all the different registrars available to me. Porkbun was by far the best.
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Out of curiosity, why did you use HTTP instead of HTTPS?
Totally unintentional. I'll edit it.
I used to use Google Domains, but then they sold that off to Squarespace.
Now I just use Cloudflare directly lol which also includes their free services, which is quite the value IMO
which also includes their free services
Well... their free services remain free regardless of your registrar. Still, I don't really mind supporting them given how useful they have been even in just the free tier.
Yea poorly worded, I meant that the free services would kick in directly rather than having to mess with nameservers and crap like I used to do whenever I bought a domain on Google lmao
Same
Porkbun: probably more private than others.
Cloudflare: less expensive, best in class security, but less privacy obviously
For something cheap, my vote goes to name cheap. Their support was actually better than I expected too. For something private njalla is really good. Not sure what's a good mix of both though, maybe CloudFlare? I know you can move your domain to them, so I presume they also let you register directly through them.
Namecheap is a quality service for sure and I’ve used them myself, but they’re only cheap to buy. They really stick it to you when it’s time to renew.
Not really? Their prices are in line with any other registrar.
They aren’t. I have a handful of domains on Namecheap still due to the convenience of their api, and each one is between 15-25% more to renew than popular alternatives like Porkbun, Namesilo, or Cloudflare. Now for a single domain we’re talking a difference of $5-10 a year. So for a single domain, is that price difference a dealbreaker? Probably not. But the more domains you have the more it adds up.
That's true, hadn't looked in a year or so but they are a bit higher now!
I mostly use CloudFlare registrar since I'm already using them for my job. They don't have first year promo or anything like that, but they sell all domains at cost price and it integrates nicely with their other services. Sadly it does not support .ca domains yet but it does support lots of TLDs.
Namecheap, Namesilo, and Porkbun are the ones that people around here seem to like.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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there are lots of cheap domain registrar options but if you're looking for a cheap .com I always go for cloudflare, they also offer .org for pretty cheap and many other options as well. The domains other than the common ones are pretty decently priced as well. I migrated all my domains there last year and it's really simple, integrates with their DNS really well and payment is pretty streamlined.
Yeah tbh if I’m already going to be using Cloudflare for DNS, might as well use them for their registrar as well. One fewer entity to trust.
Namesilo
1984.hosting is a cheap and private cloud provider and domain registrar I've used for years with much success
Cloudflare
There’s a vocal handful group of people disliking CloudFlare because of their irrelevant “privacy” concern here — you can absolutely use the registrar without using their CDN features. Also, reality check: with CloudFlare’s market reach, there’s zero chance nothing they do online isn’t already MITM’ed already. Having said that, Cloudflare uses their registrar as loss leader, so they give their wholesale price to end users registering, and as such you’ll have the cheapest price available for the domain extensions they support. You can then just set your DNS without their orange cloud and traffic on your domain aren’t going to flow through their CDN.
So they profit from high-profile commercial users to subsidize the free tier (proxy, tunnels) and cheap DNS. What's wrong with that? It's not like we absolutely need those (proxy is nice but you can use vps, tunnels are also offered by ngrok).
I would stick with namecheap (for now) and pony up for a multi year registration. If in 5 or 10 years they are jacking the price up then you can use another registrars cheap port option to get a discount. I did this recently between godaddy and namecheap. I had one domain left with godaddy that I have owned for over probably a couple of decades at this point and they were seriously jacking the rate up on me, I ported it to namecheap for a massive discount.
With Google domains transferring to Squarespace I'll be transferring my one remaining domain with them to something else soon enough.
I already moved all of my other domains over to a local provider I use for work that has treated me well, but this one last google domain address has my self hosted services on it and I was using some features that I didn't want to have to transfer so I kept it with google. I was using their ddns service too but my IP is now sticky (effectively static but can change in some rare circumstances) and it has only changed once in the last 3 years so I think I'll just manually manage the A records if needed until I either go fully static or use a third party ddns provider. I also use email aliasing to use me@mydomain with gmail.
gen.xyz?
For self hosting, I've purchased .eu domain for ~24€, for 5 years. Later on it will be 11€/year.
I'll get another domain for similar price and for 5 years. :)
Lithuanian service, so I am not going to mention it. :)
EDIT: typo, 11€ per year instead of month
11€/month? Do you mean per year?
Ummmm probably, yeah, per year.
Idk about cheapness But I've been using dynadot and it seems like a really good balance of cheapness and quality
I use Dreamhost, can't speak to the privacy but the rates are pretty good
Honestly the best place to register a domain is http://ww
asurahosting?
123cheapdomains.com
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