Ginny Mae ​Mar 12

Now I'm curious how the data looks for us nerds over here on the fediverse: where do you register your domains?

If at multiple places, let's interpret this as if you were registering a domain today, where would you register it?

tackily if you don't mind boosting I'd actually like a lot of data on this I'm really curious!

GoDaddy
3%
NameCheap
16.9%
Tucows (includes lots of resellers)
3.8%
GMO Internet / Onamae
0%
Dynadot
0.9%
NameSilo
0.3%
Squarespace wtf
0.8%
Alibaba
0%
Cloudflare
7.2%
eNom
0.2%
Porkbun
20.8%
Other
46.1%
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Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Mar 12
@gintoxicating @matildalove Hostinger. I left Dynadot years ago when they stopped offering low-end hosting services. I was on GoDaddy before that, but left way back when they were ultra-sexist.
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 12
@corbden @gintoxicating @matildalove when was this? I remember a lot of bad things about them but wasn't aware of the sexism... wouldn't surprise me though.
Show threadMatilda Love
@jwdt they ran ads featuring a fucking stripper cop, for one
Mar 12 at 5:35pmWeb
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 12
@matildalove that's interesting because I feel like they wouldn't even allow that sort of thing to be hosted on their servers.
Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiMar 12

@jwdt @matildalove Having worked very briefly in the web hosting world as a front-line CSR back in 2012-2013, I don't trust GoDaddy for a very different UX-related reason, sexist advertising notwithstanding:

Their domain registrar had, at least a the time, a known "bug" that occasionally switches the nameservers back to their own nameservers.

No, they never formally acknowledged this bug as far as I am aware.

Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiMar 12
@jwdt @matildalove Yes, it's as frustrating as you can imagine if you worked for a competing host and had to field answers from confused customers calling in demanding to know why GoDaddy suddenly stole their domain, when the facts are that their domain was with GoDaddy, their hosting was with my employer, and somehow the nameservers got reset, and here I am needing to either walk them through *someone else's interface* to fix their nameservers or tell them to harass GoDaddy about it. =_=;
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 12

@dragonarchitect @matildalove nice, around the same time I was at 123-Reg doing the same job.

Was always fun having customers complain and say they're moving to GoDaddy then the next call is someone asking how to transfer from GoDaddy.

Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiMar 12
@jwdt @matildalove I worked for Hostgator, and then we got acquired by The Webhost Borg™—I mean—Endurance International Group, and things just started to go downhill from there. :)
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 12
@dragonarchitect @matildalove 123 got acquired by Host Europe Group whilst I was still there. Wasn't too bad, but I got out before HEG got bought by GoDaddy. So glad I never had to work for GoHeggy.
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 13
@dragonarchitect @jwdt @matildalove #GoDaddy supportibg #Cyberfascism like #SOPA costed them #Wikimedia / #Wikipedia as client - among any other decent client I knew back then...