[ale] Is there anything better than GoDaddy

[DJ-Pfulio]

Until last year, I'd always been able to find a coupon for GoDaddy renewals that kept the cost below the "I care" threshold. I typically did 10 yr renewals, so dealing with them was minimal. 

Last fall, that changed (best price more than doubled), so I transferred a few domains to namecheap. For the next 3 months, got lots of spoofed emails from phishers about those domains. It was only a 1-yr transfer deal, so I'm looking to renew/transfer some .coms for $6 or less.  What a racket.  Keep a few records in a DB.  Miss the days of $2/yr .coms.

I keep DNS, hosting and registrar at 3 different places. This prevents being trapped by any single company.  If I don't like something, just modify a pointer and the trouble making company is cut out of the mix.  It isn't like there is any magic to any of these 3 things.

No revelations. Sorry.


On 8/5/21 11:18 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> I use namecheap
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> On August 5, 2021 10:06:21 PM EDT, Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>     Guys, 
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>     Remember the days went we ragged on the NetSol and everyone jumped to Godady? 
> 
>     Well, I am tired of GoDaddy and their spirit approach to buying domains. Who would you recommend?
>