Hey guys, I am quite new to the whole self-hosting world so I haven’t done too much. Before I dive in deeper though, I’d like to know how I should choose my domain name vendor. Specifically, I only want a domain, no VPS or other hosting capability as I got some old laptops running at home I want to use for testing the waters.
Thanks in advance!
I use Namecheap. It’s nice for spending your sats
Been a happy namecheap customer for probably around 10 years now, never had any issues!
I have had issues though, but their support is helpful
i got one from GoDaddy, but i regret the choice…
I didn’t mind Godaddy until I tried to get an SSL certificate with NPM. Had to move the DNS to cloud flare to get it to work.
Being in EU and with Gandi bought out and increasing prices, I recently moved to Hetzner as a domain registrar.
TIL Hetzner sells domains.
I can recommend Hetzner without any problems
Ovh is a good option as their domains come with a free 5gb email and also IPv4 dyndns that’s easy to set up. Certbot also has an Ovh api extension for easily making SSL wildcard certificates via the dns-01 challenge.
I used to use Google Domains, but lately I’ve been switching to Cloudflare. They don’t have every TLD, but they have all the ones I need, and their prices are lower than Google’s is.
The major issue with Cloudflare is that you’re forced to use their DNS servers. I’d rather pay a little bit extra to have more freedom in how I use my domain.
Cloudflare offers a lot of services, including domain registration and DNS hosting.
Cloudflare sells domains at cost, and if you ever wanted to their proxy and ddos services are easy addons.
