domain names, asking for advice
what domain name registrar would y'all recommend? I'd rather pay slightly more and have better support than just go for the absolute cheapest option.
Also I'd like to not give money to companies owned by shitty people (e.g. GoDaddy) or doing blockchain stuff (e.g. namecheap)
domain names, asking for advice
@Byte I've had good experiences with internetbs.net over the years, though I don't know if their most recent acquisition has changed things since. I've had very few issues and whenever I did have one, they always resolved it and communicated personally (ie. no canned answers).
(They also don't immediately hit the "suspend" button as soon as any abusemail comes in, genuine or otherwise, like certain other registrars do...)
It may or may not meet your "not owned by shitty people" bar. Their main target demographic is domain squatters (ie. bulk customers), which are mostly shitty people though nowhere near as bad as blockchain/"AI"/etc. stuff. That having been said, the entire domain industry seems to be shady that way, these guys are just a bit more obvious about it...
domain names, asking for advice
@joepie91 ah right
I remember seeing a talk by someone who was like "how hard can it be to become a domain name registrar" and the answer of course is "very hard" but they did manage to do it
I forgot their name though or else I'd look at their offering
domain names, asking for advice
@joepie91 odd question: do e.g. email services discriminate based on domain name registrar?
Like, if one of those domain squatters starts sending spam, should I be worried about my own domain?
domain names, asking for advice
@Byte It's not impossible for e-mail services to do that, in theory (and if anyone, I would expect it to be Microsoft doing that, who are notorious for having inscrutable spamfilters), but I have never heard a single report of this happening so I don't think that is currently a thing.
domain names, asking for advice
domain names, asking for advice
@Byte Addendum: there are probably smaller companies doing domain registration that aren't owned by shitty people, but the problem is that they almost always are just reselling one of the big guys with a markup, so your money ends up going to the shitty companies anyway...