With Gandi hiking their prices and doing some shady stuff on top of that, I’m on the lookout for a new domain registrar.
So far, the alternatives I’ve checked out are:
- Porkbun: solid, but limited list of TLD’s, missing a few I need
- Cloudflare: cheapest, easy to use platform, but they require you to set them up as authoritative DNS provider, which I’m not ok with.
- NameCheap: mixed reviews, not so cheap anymore
It seems quite hard to find a decent, no-BS registrar with ok prices. What are your recommendations?
Bonus cookie points:
- privacy-focused
- EU-based
- supports less popular country TLD’s (e.g. .ro)
I’ve used NameCheap for about 5 years now and it’s alright. I don’t have to deal with them so much since I only have one domain and my setup is pretty simple.
Same. I’ve been using NameCheap for years. I have 3 or 4 domains for different things. I really just need a registrar to hold my names and DNS which rarely changes. My domains auto-renew every year and I barely have to think about it. They’re fine for my needs, no complaints.