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So, about 9 years and 10 months ago, I renewed my main .com domain with Network Solutions for what seemed, at the time, to be a reasonable price - something like $200 for 10 years, if I recall correctly. A couple of years earlier, GoDaddy et. al. burst onto the (well, at least my) scene, with revolutionary low prices, etc. - not really, but they did put some competition into the industry, and maybe that's what kept NS's prices lower.
Today, NS wants $320+ to renew for 10 years, they seem to be no-option bundling their ID shield product in with the registration cost - which, maybe 20 years ago, I might have appreciated. But, since that old name and address have been published from here to kingdom come for the last 20 years, I don't actually want a private registration anymore.
Any opinions on domain registrars? Have any of them every given any normal customers any problems? NS has been "pay and forget" for 20 years now, but they're up for renewal in 2 months, and I'm wondering if I should be shopping for somebody cheaper.
[soylentnews is registered with gandi.net and as far as I know, we have had no issues with them. They have over 700 TLDs (Top Level Domains) available. If you have fewer than 45 domains to register, their "A" rates apply. This comes with: 2 mailboxes (3GB Storage; unlimited e-mail forwarding and aliases) and a free 1-year Standard SSL certificate, data privacy (100% GDPR-compliant hidden email address for whois), live DNS management, and unlimited support.
Current prices:
.org Creation: $14.95, Transfer: $14.20, Renewal: $17.20
.com Creation: $15.50, Transfer: $12.50, Renewal: $15.50
--martyb]
(Score: 1) by jman on Friday May 24 2019, @09:41AM (3 children)
NetSol charged $35/year 25 years ago. Competition, what competition? ;)
Over the years have used NetSol, 1&1, Moniker, some others. Finally settled on name.com, and have been with them about five years now.
Have had little trouble with them, and you can get an actual human on the phone if there are issues (think they're based in Colorado).
Currently have around 100 domains with them, mostly for other folks. Their rates are reasonable. org and com are currently about $13/yr. Got a couple of G's new 'dev' names for myself for around $17/yr. Have heard since the influx of new TLD's that rates may be going up for all registrars (thanks, ICANN), but no hard data on that possibility.
I don't host with them (Linode for that, run my own DNS, Exim, etc.), but they offer all that stuff, too.
Good luck with your search!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 24 2019, @12:19PM (2 children)
I've been hosting with myhosting.com in Canada for 20+ years, they've been easy enough, though not always the cheapest, and they have sort of jacked up my plan to $15 per month when it could be less if I'd jump some hoops with them.
Myhosting.com just changed their nameserver names, which is what kicked this whole thing off.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by jman on Friday May 24 2019, @06:55PM (1 child)
You must be on a shared server then. Can't remember the name of the Canadian firm I used around 2000 but they were $75/mo for business. Yikes!
Tried MidPhase, Hostgator (both shared, so if someone else on your box gets super busy, you suffer), eventually settled on Linode. Been with them about ten years now. Depending on your needs, their plans start at $5/mo. They recently converted to all metered billing, but my always-on 24/7/365 rate stayed the same. It's some sort of cap on the metered amount.
I believe that with whatever plan you choose, the advertised resources are guaranteed (i.e., VPS, not shared).
They used to do free upgrades, so my plan isn't even listed anymore, but I have 10G of memory running on a Xenon E5-2680 (2.5Ghz), nearly 200G of SSD storage, and a monthly transfer quote of 6TB. It's way more than I need but nice having horsepower & bandwidth to spare just in case a one of the sites should get "busy".
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 24 2019, @07:37PM
Oh, yeah, my site is nothing special, shared server is fine.
I am looking at developing some live connected apps, and there's an amazing amount of stuff out there like CloudAMQP that makes that so much easier than it used to be.
🌻🌻 [google.com]