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Ask HN: What is your preferred alternative to GoDaddy?

17 points by jconnop ↗ HN
With the recent news concerning GoDaddy, I plan to move all of my domains to a new registrar.

So I put to you this question: which registrar should that be?

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decadentcactus
Namecheap

I reg'd one with Gandi but to be honest haven't used much of it, so can't say

espadagroup
In my experience Godaddy has been fine with just registering domains. I have my domains there but use PHPFog for my hosting.
matan_a
I think that most people won't have a problem with any domain registrar as long as the price is decent, they don't cause any problems, and DNS management is sufficient.

I personally use 1and1 for all my domains, but it's just because of the above reasons.

When I feel i need a little more DNS zone magic, i set Amazon Route 53 as the nameservers and configure it there as needed.

ohashi
It's all dandy til it's not. And some companies really screw you over when it's not.

Price should be the LAST concern on something like a domain name. Considering the difference is a few dollars and most people don't register more than a couple, it SHOULD be a non issue.

whichdan
I've been happily using Moniker.com for five or six years now. They have really solid bulk domain management.
runjake
name.com, as recommended to me by many on here.
r4vik
Gandi because you get full control of your zone file and SSL cert
com4
Gandi is a bit slow, they don't obfuscate your name with private registration, and it's a giant pain to change the name of the owner. (Sign up for a new account and transfer all domains to the new account)
kennethologist
Name.com bought about 5 domains and will move my other domains there from godaddy and 1and1, network solutions as they expire.
riffmaster
Name for international domains like .im and Namecheap for others
Joakal
I use Jumba, a local registrar.
MattBearman
Anyone looking for a UK based company, I use Heart Internet - http://heartinternet.com - and they're always been great for me. I used to use their shared hosting before I moved over to Linode, and even that was good.
leeHS
iwantmydomain.com I can't believe these guys are not mainstream yet. Hooked up to my Heroku app in 5 seconds, then setup gmail apps in another 5 seconds. I has zero complaints with these guys.
Dimitris
dreamhost. super easy to use and they have awesome support!
[dead] nye
Inmotion - excellent support
nye
Inmotion - excellent support