HACKER Q&A
📣 ahnick

What is your favorite domain registrar and why?


There are a lot of different domain registrars to choose from today: Namecheap, Google Domains, Hover, GoDaddy, etc. Who have you used and had a good experience with? Are there any registrars that you have sworn off? What are the most important features to you: cost? privacy tools? automation? or?

  👤 user_agent Accepted Answer ✓
OVH.

They offer 1 free 5GB email account to every domain you register with them which I often find very handy. Especially for smaller initiatives that need just a contact@xxx.zz and nothing more. Plus they offer a free funny 10MB shared "hosting" with FTP which also can be used in a creative way.

👤 karmakaze
Namecheap has a no-nonsense UI and has been providing free whois domain privacy for a long time.

I've since switched some names to Cloudflare since I use their DNS anyway because of quick update/propagation.

I've also moved some personal domains I'm not really using to NameSilo--horrible UI but I don't feel bad having a bunch of names I'm not (yet) using.

Fastmail for email for these domains is cheap and easy.

👤 Rockvole
Namecheap I found to be pretty good. I only need basic features so I moved to a cheaper (in Canada) registrar - porkbun and they have been totally fine.
👤 rman666
NameCheap has been pretty good IMHO
👤 dhruvkar
google domains

free whois privacy

free email forwarding

simple no-nonsense ui