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%
Poll ended at .
@gintoxicating @glauca since I found them last year. Domainbox before that because cheap and simple and I used to work for a related company (123-Reg/Heart Internet, owned by GoDaddy last time I bothered checking but thankfully I left before that).

@jwdt @glauca among many other things, any company with a page for their 88x31 buttons is probably based yeah

none of what i am about to say is a criticism or speaks poorly for the company, but my own subjective preferences have a couple of concerns for me personally:

  • the pricing is fine and reasonable to support a smaller company. if I had two domains, sure. but I have almost a hundred and the added expense would be pretty significant even just spot checking a few domains

  • i prefer to use registrars directly, avoiding resellers. resellers aren't a bad thing - i was one myself like 20 years ago - the bar for being a registrar is very high.

URLsnap... making getting a URL a snap!

Register your domain name online for $.

@gintoxicating @glauca they are a registrar for .uk domains and are cheaper than a lot of other places which is actually how I found them. Nominet (UK domain org) has a page listing registrars and price. I saw the trans flag and figured "who better to trust with my internets". Most of my domains (and I only have a dozen or so these days) are .uk so it works out for me.

Will definitely put pork bun on my short list of "not terrible internet companies" though.