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I've been using Uniregistry for close to 5 years now. But, sadly, it seems it may be time to make a switch. A lot of people here have mentioned Namecheap, anyone have other registrars to check out?  
https://uniregistry.com/blog/post/b...ether

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Huge fan on NameSilo for the prices for traditional TLDs and bulk pricing based on your account size. I have a portfolio of just over 500 domains; which by no means is allot, but more a good starting base.  

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Seconded. namesilo is a solid choice. their standard prices are the same as godaddy's "$200/year discount club" prices. and then in place of $100/year ssls from godaddy, i get em for $7 at cheapsslsecurity.  

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Because i'm not a naive putz like godaddy's loyal customers

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Matt, do you use Let's Encrypt free SSLs for your sites? This seems to be common thing I see people buying certs. I use the Let's Encrypt cert and then a CDN with certs also. I've **knocks on wood** have never had any security issues.  

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I don't. the last i looked into it, they had to be renewed multiple times per year. which was annoying. dunno if that's still true or not.  

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Mine are all setup to auto renew. The news ones get installed right before the other ones expire; and, it is (in my case) all hands off. Originally, they use to be that way, which was a hassle when you had to do it manually. I like the aspect of having a new cert a couple of times a year, in the aspect that the security is updated without the (off chance) risk of the cert getting hacked and reused somehow and somewhere else. They are grabbing quite the market share over the past few years.  

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@oreopithecus74938 Let's Encrypt renews itself. It's every 90 days but it doesn't require any effort from you.  

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+1 for Namesilo, have had about 60 domains for the last 8 years with them. No complaints.  

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Namecheap blows. +1 for Namesilo

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@portie what problems have you had with Namecheap?  

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Mostly I think they bait and switch on prices. Discounts on year one and transfers then jack renewals up while making people hunt for coupon codes. They are as bad as GoDaddy. Namesilo has better pricing and seems more transparent in how they do business. Plus they have lots of DNS templates which are a nice time saver.  

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Namecheap is good. Recently we have started switching domains to Cloudflare as well.  

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@strikebreaker, question for you. I recently saw they claim they are doing registrations and renewals at cost. Is this you experience with them? What were their "at cost" for some of the TLDs you've seen? I've seen other registrar say this same thing and have prices that were extremely high and above what it actually costs.  

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Diesel @martijn McClain yea, they do at cost. I think our recent . com registrations and renewals were at around $8. The only challenge with them is that very few TLDs are supported. Like, . in is not supported.  

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@strikebreaker, thanks for the info! My current price is that or cheaper for some TLDs on NameSilo; but, it looks comparable to what I'm paying. I'll keep an eye on it as they roll out the support for more TLDs. Thank again!  

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Diesel @martijn McClain that price was specifically for . com. might be different for other TLDs.  

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Godaddy does even offer php 7 on their basic accounts

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@dolt I’ve had problems with godaddy and tucows in the past poaching on expired (or in my case an almost expiring) domain. They removed it from my account three days after it expired while it was still in the renewal period. Then offered me to buy it at a discounted price of $8, 000. It’s still sitting there today backpackershq. com. That’s what I liked about uniregistry is that they never bought expired domains from their clients and instead let them go back into the general pool.  

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Namecheap and Porkbun

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I like Moniker. They‘re cheap and their support has been helpful.  

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Been using Namecheap for 8 years and no problems

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I've been using Namecheap for more than a decade and they have been rock solid with great support when needed.  

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I've been trying out Google Domains and I like it. Really simple and modern UI.  

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NameSilo or Porkbun

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Google domains

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I split my domains between three for saftey, Netim for my EU customers, Google for my projects and Cloudflare for my global customers.  

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@elboa4 How do you find google?  

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Pretty good actually, I have a few things that run on GCP so it makes it easier to have it under their roof.  

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@elboa4 might have a suss, thanks mate

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Google Domains

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I really like CloudFlare

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Sad  

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Cloudflare registrar.  

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Name. com is solid