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.
Namecheap is still good, and honestly very well priced. The main issue is that they don’t support automated DNS verification for things like let’s encrypt certbot.
This is because they make money selling SSL certs.
If you can live without wildcard certs, or are willing to update them manually, it’s fine.
