Popular Domain Registrars

On the occasion of the shutdown of Google Domains, Gergely Orosz made a nice overview of domain registrars which are popular among developers.

The most interesting are Cloudflare, Namecheap, and Porkbun. All of them seem to have low prices and good service.

Cloudflare is particularly praised for their security features and their clean interface.

Namecheap has been particularly popular on Hacker News for a long time. Their interface is reported to be a bit outdated, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They also recently started the spaceship brand with a more modern interface and a focus on selling hosting services together with domains.

For Porkbun, besides the low prices and the neat settings interface, the English speaking in-house support gets a special mention.