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Seeing the news with Google domains, I’m looking to move registrars, and was wondering who everyone uses.

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[–] curioushom@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mind sharing the things that you find better at porkbun over namecheap. I have domains scattered over there registrars and might use this as an impetus to consolidate. I've been okay with namecheap but not sure what I'm missing out.

[–] surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.eu 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For me it was really the price of domain renewals. Namecheap has great starting deals, but eg. I have a .studio domain and it costs $28.16 to renew at Namecheap and $21.09 at Porkbun. My .xyz domain costs $9.92 to renew at Porkbun, $14.16 at Namecheap. (Registrar comparison chart here.)

In terms of pure price, Cloudflare is cheaper to renew for all the domains I have, but Porkbun is only a dollar or two off and I like supporting a smaller company. Edit: Porkbun offers free SSL which is nice if you don't feel like bothering with LetsEncrypt yourself.

(Also, I find Namecheap's domain management console absolutely horrible to work with in terms of UI.)

[–] curioushom@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response, I really appreciate it. Yeah, I'm not a fan of centralizing everything and hence avoid cloudflare. Good to know the differences with namecheap and porkbun. I have my account loaded with credit on namecheap to get API access. I'll use that up and then move over to porkbun. Thanks again!