DNS registrar recommendations?
Looking for a place to transfer my domain registrations to.
Years ago I transferred most of my domain registrations to Google Domains, because I had already transferred my DNS zones from my own nameservers to Google Cloud DNS, and it's been convenient to have the domain registrations in the same system. But Google Domains is moving everyone to Squarespace and shutting their domain registration service down, so I will no longer have that advantage, and might as well look around. I could stay with Squarespace, but no particular reason to.
Google Domains charges $12/year/domain for all of my .com, .org, and .net domains; most other places seem to charge more like $24+/year. Friends and coworkers have suggested a couple of places that don't charge more than Google - namecheap and porkbun.
If you have any domains, what do you use and recommend, and why?
I'm not looking for other services, like hosting my email, or web sites, or primary DNS. Just domain registration. It's okay if the same company provides those other services, but if they expect most of their users to combine a domain registration with other stuff like that, that may be a drawback because their user interface may make it easy to accidentally have it take over my primary DNS without me intending to, or just be annoying to deal with.
Years ago I transferred most of my domain registrations to Google Domains, because I had already transferred my DNS zones from my own nameservers to Google Cloud DNS, and it's been convenient to have the domain registrations in the same system. But Google Domains is moving everyone to Squarespace and shutting their domain registration service down, so I will no longer have that advantage, and might as well look around. I could stay with Squarespace, but no particular reason to.
Google Domains charges $12/year/domain for all of my .com, .org, and .net domains; most other places seem to charge more like $24+/year. Friends and coworkers have suggested a couple of places that don't charge more than Google - namecheap and porkbun.
If you have any domains, what do you use and recommend, and why?
I'm not looking for other services, like hosting my email, or web sites, or primary DNS. Just domain registration. It's okay if the same company provides those other services, but if they expect most of their users to combine a domain registration with other stuff like that, that may be a drawback because their user interface may make it easy to accidentally have it take over my primary DNS without me intending to, or just be annoying to deal with.