Ohhh so that’s why I got those price increases emails. Yay. What are some good alternatives?

anamexis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been very happy with Porkbun. https://porkbun.com

harrisoned 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. I recommend them a lot.

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0x38B 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I enjoy the warning in the footer:

"WARNING: This site has been known to cause a mind blowing experience. We recommend you prepare yourself mentally and if possible be sitting down. Side effects may include saving money, letting out a chuckle, and sporadic oinking."

Domain related: I regret getting a .io domain for my email and website; with the price increases, it's not far from $100/year. I'm looking to move from Namecheap to Porkbun and to move to a .com domain.

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gonzalohm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you know if they support dynamic DNS? I self host most of my stuff and I have a dynamic IP at home

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anamexis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, in that they have an API for their DNS service. It's supported by ddns-updater.

	▲	FlyingAvatar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Really wish they would allow creating limited scope API keys though. You can only limit keys by domain, not by action or record which would be ideal.

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drewtemp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here. Recently migrated quite a few domains from Namecheap to Porkbun and it only took a matter of minutes.

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anonzzzies 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep I moved all namecheap and godaddy to porkbun.

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T1ny 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also moved over and have been very happy.

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petesergeant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Moved over after Gandi’s acquisition by PE and then price hikes. Hope Porkbun stays legit for at least another decade.

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And porkbun, a seemingly privately owned company, isn't private equity?

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Krutonium 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Private Equity vs Private Ownership

The first is a vampire looking to take what was publicly or even privately owned, extract every last dollar and leave the shell with the debt of buying the next victim.

Private Ownership is Valve or Porkbun - The people running the business want to make a profit but not to their own or their customers determent.

	▲	SoftTalker 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> The first is a vampire I mean not always, but that does happen and that's what you hear about.

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anamexis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not in the sense that anyone means when they say private equity?

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean how it's always used post hoc (ie. "ah ha! the company was owned by private equity! you should've known!") or as a generic kneejerk reaction, neither of which has any rigorous criteria for what the "bad" sort of private equity is?

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petesergeant 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> the "bad" sort of private equity

People mean "acquired by a Private Equity firm". You can learn what one of those is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_firm

	▲	krferriter an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah people generally mean PE investment firms that are in the business of moving around and sucking up companies for short terms and stripping them to squeeze all the money out and then moving on to the next one. Not simply that a company’s equity is privately held, not publicly traded.

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anamexis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes.

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petesergeant 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which Private Equity company do you think owns them?

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somat 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I abuse https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ as a domain registrar. I really like their astetic(pre pay, simple, no fluff) but it turns out the sort of stuff I want to run on the internet is a poor match for their infrastructure so don't actually use nfsn in their primary web host role.

	▲	jason_oster an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wait, you consider that abusive? I have only used NFSN as a registrar for two decades. Always had hosting and DNS managed elsewhere.
	▲	analog8374 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I use nfs as host too. Didn't know they did registrar. Thanks. Ya every time I installed a slightly involved CMS it was a broken headache for some technical reason, so I gave that up. Made my own superuninvolved CMS and that works fine.

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js2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Porkbun. Cloudflare if you don't mind being locked into using them for DNS too.

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cobertos 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Id caution against using Cloudflare for DNS. They rewrite your CAA record so multiple other CAs can sign certs on your domains. It's non-obvious unless you query your own CAA record

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indigodaddy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Source/writeup somewhere? The amount of domains that use CF must be staggering, so if this was a real threat being leveraged in the wild you'd think it would be an epidemic no??

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kbolino 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not a threat.

Most websites don't use CAA records at all. The records can only narrow what CAs are acceptable down from the end user's root trust store, they can't add new CAs to it. And CloudFlare is typically in charge of managing its customers' certificates, so they add CAA records for their own CAs.

If you don't trust CF to manage your certs, you are not in their target market and generally should not use their products.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/reference/certificate-...

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yurishimo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Many people use cloudflare for DNS. Few people use cloudflare for domain name purchases as that feature is much newer.

	▲	indigodaddy 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		OP specifically said "using Cloudflare for DNS..." ? I wasn't talking about domain name registration and don't think OP was either?
	▲	dv_dt 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well and dns service is reasonably easy to switch