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Porkbun
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Transparent, everyday pricing for all domains and services
All the top-level domains available at Porkbun (319 of the 1,562 currently in existence) are offered for $1 above the wholesale price, plus the processing fee for your credit card. No gimmicks or bait-and-switch pricing, no surprises. That's the price for renewal and inbound transfers too, so you know exactly how much you'll be spending every year you own the domain.
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No wildcard/catch all email forwarding
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Free WHOIS Privacy (for top-level domains that allow it)
All domains receive free WHOIS privacy, which masks your personal information from the public registry and saves you from the deluge of e-mail spam and telemarketers which typically accompanies purchasing a domain name today. Some top-level domains, like .us, require that you publish your contact info publicly, and they'll tell you that before you place the order.
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FAST Payments - honest pricing - integrity
No more topping up a reseller account with credits that cost a commission to buy or getting caught at renewal with a higher price unless you find a coupon somewhere... It's integrity all the way and a VERY fast payment portal!
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Porkbun accounts can be secured with two-factor authentication
Don't let the next big hack allow some internet pirate to steal your domain, just turn on 2FA in the control panel and all logins will require a TOTP code in addition to your e-mail address and password.
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Best Service
No hidden renewal charges and free privacy on all domains.
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Live support during support hours
During support hours a real human can be reached via phone or email. Emails are generally responded quickly and always within 24 hours.
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Not spamming you with useless offers
They are sincere, they do not spam your inbox with "offers" and services you are never going to use and then, if you make the mistake to accept, pay inflated prices when you renew. They communicate with you only for serious and legitimate reasons. Excellent services!
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Just the best
Nothing wrong to say about them, this company should stay as they are.
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Free SSL Certificates
Every domain is issued SSL certificates for the root domain and any ten subdomains of your choice via the Let's Encrypt service. The certificates expire every 90 days but Porkbun automatically renews them for you prior to each expiration, for as long as you own the domain. These certificates don't offer any identity verification, but they do allow all the traffic to and from your domain to be encrypted at industry-standard levels at no cost. They can be acquired at will through the interface without any contact with support staff and the certificates are available for download as soon as they are created.
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Free DNS hosting
Registering the domain is only half the battle, the other half is announcing to the world the IP address of the server hosting your site. Porkbun includes this service with all domain registrations and makes it easy to manage by using the GoDaddy DomainConnect standard for service auto-discovery. This means you don't need to get your hands dirty, just pick the web host you want to connect the domain to from the drop-down menu and click OK. Or you can manage all the settings yourself from the control panel without restriction or interference. You can have as many A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS and TXT resource records as your heart desires (or ARIN allows).
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Free e-mail forwarding and reasonable e-mail hosting
All domains come with 10 free e-mail forwards which allow you to use your new domain to create aliases for existing e-mail accounts elsewhere. If you need hosted e-mail instead, that's only $24/year per mailbox, and it includes 10GB of storage, external POP3 and IMAP gateways and a modern webmail portal from which you can send and receive e-mails.
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DNSSEC support for all top-level domains
Worried about falling victim to one of the many security risks on the internet? Then take a moment to generate DS records for your domain and Porkbun will propagate them to the root zone for free. Doing this ensures that even if the nameserver for your site goes down, no hackers can impersonate it and steal your visitors' personal or financial information.
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Sincere, personal touch to all interactions
The support team is very pleasant to deal with and small enough that personal relationships can easily be formed. The promise of responses to support requests in under an hour is almost universally observed and even their site has some fun (who doesn't like pictures of playful piglets while their SSL certificates are generated?) instilled in it.
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Accepts Bitcoin
They accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for all services.
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Free website builder and hosting at Weebly
All domains at Porkbun can take advantage of Weebly's very popular website builder, complete with hosting for unlimited content pages and an e-commerce shop for five items. Of course many features are locked out until you pay for a hosting package, but you can very easily host a simple but professional looking portfolio or blog with minimal effort and greater than 99% uptime.
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NameSilo
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Cheap
Namesilo is among the most competitive registrars with regard to pricing.
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Dated website look and feel
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Free WHOIS privacy protection
Free private registration.
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No frills but full functions in domain manager
Makes manging your domains way easier.
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Free email forwarding
Uses SRS, supports catch-all, up to 100 addresses
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Two-factor authentication
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POP.co
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Quick and easy way to get online
POP sets you up in less than 60 seconds with everything you need to get a new idea or business online - the setup is quick and there is no credit card required.
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Free custom email address
To get immediate credibility for your idea, you can email potential customers/partners from your own custom email address, using your domain name. Most registrars charge for this, but the first address is free with POP. You have to use webmail (or you can upgrade to IMAP access for $1/mo), but as a free service, it's a great feature to help gain traction before adding costs to a budding idea!
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Two free website editors included: Simple Page and Weebly
Every domain registered with POP includes a choice from Simple Page WYSIWYG editor or Weebly.
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Free WHOIS privacy for applicable domains
POP proudly offers free WHOIS privacy for all registered domains whose TLDs allow for it.
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Google Domains
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Easy, clean user experience
There are few up-sell attempts as well as zero advertisements with an interface that has clean areas that explain details well with no jumbled design.
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Hard to reach support
Google customer support is notoriously hard to reach.
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Easy integration with Google Apps
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Can block your domain without notice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23417046
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Name
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Two factor authentication
Two factor authentication allows the domain to recognize more than one entity of identification; knowledge factor and possession factor.
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A lot of spam directed to your listed email
By far the most spam of any registrar almost as if they sell your email if you don't pay for privacy.
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Reasonable prices
Name's .com prices are just a hair above Namecheap at $10.99/year vs $10.69/year. Potential coupon codes could be used to save some money.
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Private whois registration costs extra
Their Whois Privacy service costs an extra $3.99/year
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Will pre-charge your credit card in case of expiration
If you have established a payment profile on your account and wish to have automatic billing for your domains, they will attempt to renew the domains about 1 month before the expiration date. If the credit card has expired, they will notify you that there was a problem with your payment and that your card will need to be updated.
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Does not support catch all email forwarding
You cannot forward undefined email address messages.
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Great support
Technician are prompt, helpful, responsive and do not hesitate to take responsibility on behalf of the company.
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Thoughtful UI
They have put some thought into their user interface. DNS changes, NS updates and registrar transfers are extremely simple with name.com. And the UI remained relatively unchanged for years.
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Offers domain registrations with Google apps
Name.com offers domain registrations with Google apps.
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Free email forwarding
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Free and unlimited sub domains
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Namecheap
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Low prices
Domain registration at Namecheap is economical, as their name implies.
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Misleading pricing
For example .me domain registration costs 3$ a year, but a continuation for 2 years cost 30$!
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Great support with 24 hour live chat
Namecheap support is available 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Their support is provided over live text chat, which has a lower barrier to entry, faster connection, and allows you to communicate easier than other the phone. Because most of the support you need for domains require you to provide text configuration data, live online messaging is the most efficient way to get fast support. It also does not require your constant attention so you don't have to waste time while the operator is researching an answer for you.
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Expensive
It costs a lot of money to renew and purchase a domain. It also costs for their premium dns. They used to be cheap, but now it's so expensive.
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Free subdomains
Namecheap allows you to set up 198 subdomains for free, and also provides wildcard subdomain catching so you can manage them yourself.
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Free e-mail and URL forwarding
Namecheap allows you to set up 100 virtual email addresses per domain, as well as catch all forwarding all undefined addresses.
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Supports credit cards, PayPal and adding funds to your account separately
When it comes to paying for domains, Namecheap supports all common payment methods. For most people this will be credit cards and Paypal, but Namecheap also has an option to add funds to your account separately.
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Free dynamic DNS routing
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Strong Anti-SOPA stance
Namecheap took a stand against SOPA.
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FreeDNS for outside domain
Namecheap offers a free and premium (w/ SLA) DNS hosting service for domains registered with other registrars.
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Free WHOIS privacy protection
It's active for one year.
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Bitcoin payment support
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Expiration grace period
Namecheap will notify you if your credit card is going to expire, and has a 27 day non-guaranteed grace period for renewal.
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Two-factor authentication
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Proactive support
Not all registrar care, but when there's an error or something held up the registration they've always at least gave it a shot without prompting. This is done in a proactive way, which isn't seen very often at all. This way the user can be hands off and not need to deal with certain issues as it is taken care of in the background by their support. User is still informed, of course, but can be entirely hands off, or not, but usually they've been efficient and transparent.
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Free .me domain for students
Through its NC.ME program, students can get a free 1-year registration on the .me TLD and discounts on .com, .io, and other TLDs along with Namecheap Private Email hosting.
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Gandi
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All-inclusive package
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Can be perceived as lacking professionalism due to the blunt "no bs" tagline
At face value, Gandi's "no bs" marketing slogan and tone may be perceived as unprofessional, especially in the eyes of corporate or otherwise sensitive clients of yours.
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Free unlimited subdomains
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Whois protection doesn't hide the name
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Two-factor authentication
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No catch all email forwarding
Gandi does not support wildcard email forwarding for undefined addresses.
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Free email forwarding
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Free web mail
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Best in basic features
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Private Whois registration is included
Private whois registration is provided without any extra charges.
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Programmatic API support
Via XML-RPC.
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Strong Anti-SOPA stance
Gandi took a stand against SOPA.
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Access levels and delegating is easy
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Cloudflare Registrar
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Zero-margin fees for any registrations
Cloudflare only charges the ICANN registration fees for the domain and does not add any own margin.
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Unable to set custom name servers
By using CloudFlare as Registrar, you are forced to use their nameservers.
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Registration fee is topped up on existing paid fees
You do not loose any paid fees from other registrars because the ICANN fees you pay to Cloudflare are put on top of existing balances. This means you can move your domain at any time without losing any pre-paid fees.
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Bad support
Only email support available for free user. If something happens to your account or domain, you can send an email and have to wait 1-2 weeks to get an answer from a person.
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Automatic SSL for your website
Even if you do not have SSL on your web server, Cloudflare automatically provides a free SSL certificate if enabled.
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Limited TLDs available
Due to the service being in early access the available TLDs are limited but may be extended later.
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Deep integration into Cloudflare ecosystem
The registration is deeply integrated into the existing Cloudflare ecosystem. You basically do not have to leave Cloudflare's website to manage any part of your domain.
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Existing domains only at the moment
It seems that you cannot register new domains trough the registrar but only move existing domains to the service.
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Zero-margin fees for any registrations
Cloudflare only charges the ICANN registration fees for the domain and does not add any own margin.
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Zero-margin fees for any registrations
Cloudflare only charges the ICANN registration fees for the domain and does not add any own margin.
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GoDaddy
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Hostile to digital freedom for having supported SOPA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Backing_of_SOPA_and_resultant_boycott
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Wider selection of Domain extensions (New gTLDs)
Trusted and with one of the widest selection of new domain extensions.
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Bad customer service
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Annoying notifications
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Sneaky business practices
Several users reported that GoDaddy quickly registered domains they were searching before the user could do, so the company could sell the domain to them afterwards for a higher price.
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Checkout process is a hassle
You have to decline or avoid too many upsells.
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Only US servers
The customer representatives confirm that there are only US servers. You still can use it in other parts of the world, but for a better connection you should definitely consider other options.
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Admin UI is hard to use due to the ad first design
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