meowWhat's the best domain registry?
darklamerRun by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.
You want privacy or cheap? Can’t have both.
AzzuNamecheap will remove your domain if you have anti-zionist content after the recently appointed CEO compared Palestinian journalists to ISIS.
Shit, I just got a domain name from there a month ago. Is there a way to transfer it elsewhere or something?
I didn’t even realize they could do that :(
Yes every registrar offers transfers, much likely every phone progress offers portability.
Pure, literal garbage.
Namecheap has got to be one of the worst possible recommendations for any kind of domain hosting.
Cheap and good: Cloudflare (they sell domains at cost, you won’t find anywhere cheaper unless they’re loss-leading) Currently the best choice, imo. API is useful for DNS01 Letsencrypt certs, with plugins for lots of software. Only downside is you can’t use a third party nameserver without paying extra, but I’ve never found that necessary.
Ok and good: I’ve been pleased with Gandi and Joker in the past. Both are also not-US based, if that’s important to you.
Privacy: Not sure what’s exposed with a domain registrar. You have to give an owner’s detail for any domain, but that’s hidden from public whois now.
If you mean untraceable - well, I dunno. You don’t need to prove that identity for anything other that .gov type domains, afaik, so I guess disposable email (but not that disposable, as lose that and you lose the domain) and pay by crypto.
Shitlist: GoDaddy for all the well published reasons. Had some problems with Fastnet in the past too. In both cases I was able to transfer domains away successfully.
(Experience: Personal. I’ve been registering, transferring and working with domains for over 20 years. Not full time, nor at huge scale.)
Clocks [They/Them]Alibaba, They’re so far away and big that no one can touch them.
Judging by the answers, you mean registrar. The registry is the place that administers the register of domains within a TLD (like .se or .mobi) and for some reason doesn’t let you order domains unless you want to become a registrar first
I don’t know which registry is the best but I can tell you about the worst. My registrar was also not amused by the mess that is AFNIC (twice now, concerning different domain names, and I don’t have many domains so if I already had multiple problems…). They sit in Paris and operate the TLDs of former colonies