Favorite domain provider?

[Al]

Cloudflare is the best currently for price and privacy, especially when coupled to their DNS services.

When my domains are up for renewal I'm switching them to Cloudflare.

 

[Bawse]

I use Namecheal for all my domain names. I don't even consider other domain providers.

 

[Cory]

It's apparent by the replies on this topic Namecheap is one, if not the most popular domain registrar, maybe for message boards at least. I assume Cloudflare will gain more traction as time passes.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I really like Namecheap and purchased almost all my domains from them. The only one I bought from Cloudflare was for my personal portfolio website which I still need to update. :V

 

[fdk]

I still maintain my earlier position in this thread that domain providers are almost irrelevant. The only services you should be purchasing from a domain registrar imo is the registration itself. All of their other services are available elsewhere at a better quality and a better price, of that I can assure you.

As I said before, my domains are registered with Names.co.uk. I set the nameservers to my own hosting and I've never visited Names.co.uk since and won't do so until I need to either register another domain or renew my current ones.

 

[Arantor]

They should be. They are, however, not at all equal.

Putting aside the domains that have specific registrars where you can't get the domain except through specific companies (you aren't buying a .ly from Namecheap), there's some registrars that take the proverbial with pricing. For example I just looked up adomainthatdefinitelydoesntexist.com on Namecheap and saw it was for the expected $10 or thereabouts, while Network Solutions wanted $11.99, defaulted to 3 years rather than 1, and gave me multiple screens of up-sells before I'd even seen the basic price of a domain.

And then there's cases like iwantmyname which made the news last week after Funko Pop (yes, that Funko Pop) and its AI-powered brand protection service flagged a page on Itch.io for trademark violation. This caused the domain provider to unilaterally suspend the domain entirely until a human could be reached to verify it. Itch.io isn't exactly a small hobby site, either.