Cloudflare for support (tooling), Njal.la for privacy (run by the pirate bay founder), porkbun for a happy medium and for the cool kids.
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Namesilo, cheap and never had issues
Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.
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Porkbun
Not kosher and offered best price
Namecheap bc I typed where to buy cheap domains and that was the first one.
Namecheap.
It wasn't GoDaddy.
~~Google Domains because I have a Google account and buying a domain on it was easy when I needed it. I'm still on Google Domains but you've reminded me I need to continue the transfer to Cloudflare before I get forced over to Square Space because they don't support Dynamic DNS.~~
Cloudflare.
Enterprise tooling (aka a usable API) and it stays out if my way.
Same, Google was easy and as cheap as anyone else. Now Cloudflare
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Namecheap because it’s easy and quick to use. They have good prices on new domains as well. Their prices are less attractive in renewals though, so I’d suggest transferring your domain after buying it to Cloudflare or NameSilo or PorkBun or the like.
I'm not super knowledgeable on this, but I chose Dynadot because it's cheap and WHOIS privacy is included.
I'm using my local registrar. 10 years ago, when I registered my first domain, it was one of few options I was familiar with, and they had offered a discount. I could find something cheaper, but we're talking about 8EUR/year. It doesn't really matter.
I use Infomaniak, as they follow swiss privacy laws and had the cheapest registration for .ch when I registered it first.
OVH, reasonably priced, API for DNS management and existing certbot integration
Some European ones because the domains have European TLDs. .eu for example is only available by EU registrars IINM. But also, I do my best to keep the money local where I can.
I don't think that's true anymore. I moved my .eu to porkbun (which is an American company) and it works. Also, I just tried registering a new .eu domain with them and it works - and they have very good prices! (I'm not affiliated with them)
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Gen.xyz
Njal.la. They buy the domain for you and let you control it. They also don't give whois information by default.
Namecheap because I pay 88 cents a year for my domain.
Which TLD?
(Numbers).xyz
I only use it for stuff for me. If you do a real name it’s more.
Namecheap for registrar and Cloudflare for the name servers. Always keep those services separated so if one dies, you can still get into the other service to fix it.
I was thinking Cloudflare as a registrar and AWS as name servers, but good choice regardless.
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If a registrar goes out of business, ICANN transfers the domain(s) to another registrar.
If a name server business fails, you change name servers through your registrar.
You can't really fix registrar services in your name server, nor name server problems through your registrar. (Unless, of course, your registrar is also your name server.)
If your registrar goes down but the NS are on a different provider, the root servers will keep that NS record and all will be well. You can go to a different registrar and transfer it over, but in the meantime it'll be fine and you can do whatever you need with your DNS.
If the DNS provider goes down, you can go to your registrar and quickly change the NS to another provider. It'll quickly be back up on your new DNS servers.
Believe me, I've done this for 3 decades because one or the other have gone down on me more than once and I've had minimal downtime with this separation. Even when I was running my own NS, I kept more than one NS outside my server farm so if my connections went down, I could pop the farm up on a backup colo and point my tertiary accordingly.
After a bit of research, I'm forced by facts (NS records can be cached for an undetermined time) to see what you're saying. Thank you for teaching me.
The workings are, of course, a bit more complicated than what either of us have said (here's a taste), but there is a situation as you describe, where separating the registrar from the name servers, and the name servers from the domain, could save the domain from going down.
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I stick with the big name registrars and then just use the cheapest for that TLD.
Gandi.net
GDRP and anonymous hosting. Pretty great.
If you don't have domains with TLDs that Gandi charges 3x-6x more than you can get elsewhere... then yeah, their registrar and DNS services are pretty nice.
Gandi did something in the last year or two that made me migrate off them. Don't remember what it was but it was a deal breaker.
Edit: found it further down in the thread. They even migrated to porkbun like I did! https://lemmy.world/comment/8536944
Their pricing structure doesn't affect what I have hosted and I'm selfhosting email in dockermail. My whois is still anonymized how I like.
+1 for Gandi, as they also have an API for management as well and support ACME DNS challenge for Let's encrypt.
Cloudflare, because my understanding is that they typically renew at basically cost, and that’s where most of my other DNS stuff is anyway.
I typically buy domains at whatever registrar is cheapest at the time for initial purchase, which most recently was namecheap IIRC.
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name.com. I don't remember why I picked them, but they do no BS and the service is fine.
I have mine on Namecheap, but i’ve moved the nameserver to Cloudflare. Been using them for a while, can’t complain at all. Am also paying for their email service on the same domain