It looks like it’s time to “shop around”. What registrar are you guys using?
I’ve used Hover in the past, but I’ve found myself using Porkbun lately.
Edit to add: I don’t use the registrars as my authoritative DNS, I use Route53 for that.
Another vote for Porkbun here, in my case using Cloudflare for my nameservers.
Yeah Porkbun + Cloudflare is a solid combo. I’m not sure how they do it, but Porkbun is consistently cheaper than other registrars while still having solid service.
I also have a couple of domains in Google Domains since they provide wildcard email forwarding
Namecheap and porkbun
I like Cloudflare’s registrar a lot. Zero BS and great integration with the other services I’m already using.
Yeah, that’s a solid choice! I’ve used their proxy service and was pretty solid.
OVH, for the TLDs I have they were cheapest in Europe and DNS is just working.
I haven’t really shopped around in a while, I just use the gandi forwarding rather than hosting mail, so the changes haven’t hit me yet. I hear porkbun.com is pretty good. They don’t offer free email but they do have cheap email hosting and apparently the cheapest prices for registering a domain.
Are they really charging a 50% price increase on top of the discontinuation of the free mailbox? Looking at the sheet, they’re charging 35 EUR for my domain that normally costs me 20 EUR and only 13 USD on sites like Cloudflare… Am I not reading it right?
@g5pw Porkbun
I think I will stop using Gandi. They are too expensive and don’t provide much value compared to other registrars.
The price for the TLD of my custom domain doubled. With the new prices, it’s cheaper for me to get the domain at OVH (cheaper than Gandi’s previous price) and mailboxes at mailbox.org, than the domain alone at Gandi.
Yeah, I was registering my domains there because they are in Europe and had some extra services, I’ll be taking my business elsewhere now
They’re not even trying to pretend they offer competitive domain prices anymore. Last time I renewed the prices for the 5 TLD’s I use varied $15-22, this year they’re all $30. That’s a 75-100% increase accross the board.
Where did you read this annoucement?
Thank you very much. I did not receive this email yet, hence my surprise. Time to move my last mailbox on my server.
Cloudflare offers registration of most domains at their wholesale cost.
I use INWX. Prices are very cheap and their DNS supports most of the record-types available, which I didn‘t have at some of the registrars I was at before.
Oh nice, and they’re based in EU too, which is better for me, too!
How does the INWX DNS edit look like? In their docs I saw they offer a table where you can edit records one by one, using their predefined form. Do they also offer a way to edit all records at once as text?
@g5pw @selfhosted I use namecheap and the only annoyance I have is the api access. I use ddclient to keep one of my domains updated with my home ip address, but when my ISP changes the ip address, I have to manually go to the namecheap site to update the ip address whitelist to allow ddclient to connect.
It makes ddclient much less useful.Apart from that, I haven’t had any issues wit the registrar side of things.
I use namesilo. I moved there before they sold in 2018 and I haven’t found a reason to leave despite the changes. It still does everything I need and pricing is good enough.
I’m on cloud flare now so that’s probably where I’ll go if I’m ever bothered to move
