I've been using a domain registrar for the past five years. A friend recommended them to me back in the day.<p>Lately I'm sort of troubled by the poor quality of their service, poorly designed (and confusing) website and a series of issues that happened while managing the domains I own.<p>I wish to move my assets elsewhere so I'm wondering what other places are good to look at? What is recommended?
<a href="https://domains.google.com" rel="nofollow">https://domains.google.com</a><p>I've used godaddy, namecheap in the past and they just can't help themselves and make a simple task (configuring DNS settings) a confusing mess (ui-wise).<p>Google Domains is a breath of fresh air in that respect. I've transferred all my domains there.<p>They are still invite-only (I think) but I got mine fairly quickly.
I use NameCheap for registration along with Route53 (Amazon) for actual DNS hosting/management. Amazon is around $0.75/month/domain. Namecheap varies depending on type of domain and duration.<p>Namecheap's control panel could be a little better designed, but if you host elsewhere you spend very little time there.
I've had pretty good luck with NameCheap, but I wish their UI would get a better makeover. Some parts have upfront, but a lot of times you're using this really old and annoying-to-navigate UI for things along with incompleteness in features for newer TLDs.
<a href="https://www.hover.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hover.com/</a>
Their prices may not be the absolute lowest, but their website is refreshingly simple. Their control panel/UI is very straightforward as well.
I have used GoDaddy for years, I am looking at switching to Amazon or NameCheap for my domains.<p>Amazon because it's where most of my domains are hosted anyway and I trust them.<p>NameCheap for any domain's Amazon won't transfer.
My personal favourite is <a href="https://iwantmyname.com/" rel="nofollow">https://iwantmyname.com/</a><p>They provide free whois privacy, affordable prices and a clean interface for monitoring domains.
Do great minds think alike?<p>This almost exact question was just asked on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541654" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541654</a>
I use godaddy for registration (through their "Discount Domain Club") which reduces the cost to about 8 bucks per domain per year. I like their customer service and how quickly the nameserver changes seem to propogate. I usually use Route53 (aws) for the actual DNS.
checkout <a href="https://nearlyfreespeech.net" rel="nofollow">https://nearlyfreespeech.net</a><p>I've been a customer for almost a decade.