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| ▲ | belorn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I would recommend a registrar that would explain to the customer why they would not want a .me domain for anything critical unless the person lives in Montenegro and trust the Government of Montenegro to maintain a good and trust worthy registry. Otherwise just use which ever registrar is cheapest and who you think will handle any quirks or shenanigans that registries may do to domains you own, and which own system and processes hold high enough standard for you. |
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| ▲ | FabCH an hour ago | parent [-] | | What’s with the shade on Montenegro? .me is a perfectly normal domain. And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC. | | |
| ▲ | wwalexander an hour ago | parent [-] | | ccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable. The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains. In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a private company called ID.me, whose domain name AND company name are now forever tied to the whims of the government of Montenegro. | | |
| ▲ | shishcat a minute ago | parent | next [-] | | FYI, 75,2% of doMEn d.o.o. is controlled by American companies (GoDaddy.com LLC 38.352%, Identity Digital Limited 36.848%) | |
| ▲ | FabCH an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, the government of Montenegro is a reasonable European democracy on its, admittedly slow, way to join the EU and is a NATO member. It’s not really any different than this website we are now on being at the whim of the US government. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's very different. If the USA soon starts cancelling politically inconvenient domains, European ones will be safe. Just like Nazi propaganda domains would be censored in Europe, but are safe in the US. Every domain has a country. It's as if every non-ccTLD was actually underneath .us. For legacy reasons .com .org etc were grandfathered in. gTLDs are also under .us for corrupt reasons. |
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| ▲ | conception 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| porkbun are great |
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| ▲ | pibaker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There is nothing Porkbun or any other registrar can do if Montenegro decides to suspend the domain, which seems to be what actually happened. | |
| ▲ | Drakim 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I also recommend porkbun | | |
| ▲ | cute_boi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is it better than cloudflare? | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Never use the same company for your hosting or CDN and your domain, and avoid cloudflare in general. That's because if they don't like your website being on your CDN, and they suspend your account, you'll lose your domain. If your domain is at Porkbun you can change it to point to a different IP address. And avoid Cloudflare because they're centralising the internet. | |
| ▲ | lolinder 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Depends on what you mean by better. I chose Porkbun because it's a small company with good prices, a good vibe, and all the tools that I need. Cloudflare was never going to be on the table because I don't want to feed the beast that is already swallowing the entire internet. | | |
| ▲ | K0IN 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | i use it too,can only recommend, also funny website btw. |
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| ▲ | 5701652400 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| squarespace is legit. GCP cloud domains are moved to them. |
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| ▲ | arjie 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Never had any trouble with them, but also moving away from them is unnecessarily hard (the code sometimes takes a day to arrive) and they cover the entire interface with their paid hosting stuff which makes them a poor registrar. I ended up on them because of Google Domains selling off but got off them because very annoying to use. | |
| ▲ | lolinder 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'd honestly be careful with squarespace. They are owned by private equity, advertise on countless YouTube channels, and at the same time their core market is under a looming threat from the AI companies. You need your domain registrar to be stable and predictable. Their profile is not that. |
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| ▲ | drdexebtjl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’ve been happy with Gandi.net for years now. They’re based in France. |
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| ▲ | FabCH an hour ago | parent [-] | | FYI - Gandi was great, but they got bought by private equity a few years back and the price skyrocketed and service went downhill super fast after the buyout. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've never had a problem with Namecheap but I'm not sure they are really any better as I've never had a problem with GoDaddy either. |
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| ▲ | sebastiennight 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My understanding is that both GoDaddy and Namecheap used to do domain front running[0] at the time I was registering my first handful of commercial domains, so I've always avoided even using their search engines. I wonder if the practice still exists. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting#Domain_name_fro... | | |
| ▲ | deepspace 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't believe Namecheap ever did that, unless that was in the distant past. Never had a problem with them. |
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| ▲ | glitchy99 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My bank automatically blocks payments to Namecheap. When I had domains with them, I had to call and give prior approval for the exact amount I would be paying. My bank claimed it was because of a high number of fraudulent charges. | | | |
| ▲ | kennywinker 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Namecheap got bought by private equity fairly recently, so i switched away from them. Wouldn’t recommend starting with them just in time for the enshittification to start. | | |
| ▲ | lolinder 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Their prices had already been going up for a few years before that, which finally pushed me off them starting around August of last year. I'm about to swap my final few domains over this month before they renew. Porkbun has been great so far. Easy to use, refreshingly minimal, and good prices. |
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| ▲ | rationalist 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Dynadot. One of the largest registrars, and very competitive pricing like Namecheap. They also have very good features. |
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| ▲ | konart 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm quite comfortable with Netim |
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| ▲ | wwalexander an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cloudflare |
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| ▲ | s13k 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| porkbun |
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| ▲ | qurren 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AWS Route53 or Namecheap |
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| ▲ | IAmGraydon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Cloudflare |
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| ▲ | axus 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | So far so good, for personal use; they have the lowest renewal prices for top level domains. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Just be aware they can arbitrarily take it away from you. If that's fine with you, go ahead. |
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