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Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm currently on the lookout for privacy-respecting domain registrars. What are you guys using and why?

Edit: I've registered my domain with Porkbun. I got a really cool one, it's called reallyaweso.me!

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[–] atocci@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

~~Google Domains because I have a Google account and buying a domain on it was easy when I needed it. I'm still on Google Domains but you've reminded me I need to continue the transfer to Cloudflare before I get forced over to Square Space because they don't support Dynamic DNS.~~

Cloudflare.

[–] b1g_bake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Same, Google was easy and as cheap as anyone else. Now Cloudflare

[–] rolaulten@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Enterprise tooling (aka a usable API) and it stays out if my way.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly the same boat. But man Cloudflare is better in every way. Having an API to update/fetch records for a zone does wonders.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Google now as well, what was the cutover like to cloudflare?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Transferring was straightforward enough, but there were a couple steps that involved waiting for things to update before you could continue and I forgot to get back to it for a while after they were done. Other than that, all my records seem to have transferred over correctly and all I had to do manually was reconfigure my DDNS client and set up email forwarding with gmail again.