UK domain reg companies

[Drat]

Hi,

Does anyone have any recommendations for UK based domain registrars?

Or do you just use the US companies? Any disadvantages of doing that?

Thanks.

 

[visibleman]

Perhaps Stablepoint, Krystal, UK2 (THG) but to be honest, i just go on cost, so use a mixture of Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap etc.

 

[Drat]

Perhaps Stablepoint, Krystal, UK2 (THG) but to be honest, i just go on cost, so use a mixture of Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap etc.

Thanks.

Do your bank charge you for paying Porkbun (for example) in dollars? Does that not wipe out the saving?

 

[visibleman]

Thanks.

Do your bank charge you for paying Porkbun (for example) in dollars? Does that not wipe out the saving?

I use a no-fee card but depending on what your card/account charges, you can still end up saving a few quid per year compared to UK registrars.

 

[On Holiday]

Thanks.

Do your bank charge you for paying Porkbun (for example) in dollars? Does that not wipe out the saving?

I pay from my UK business bank and it's still cheaper than almost any UK-based provider. Transaction fee is about £0.13 per £4.00

+1 for Porkbun though. Alternatively, Namesilo.

 

[visibleman]

There's a number of handy comparison sites around, although i typically use https://regery.com/en/domains/tools/compare/domains

 

[Glanza]

20i is where all our domains are, used to be with Krystal but their own DNS hosting didn't allow records to be deleted without support doing it (don't know if this is fixed now)

 

[Mr Jack]

I use 1-2-3reg, never had any problems. I also use maxer which I pay in € but they also have a £ option.

 

[Cromulent]

I get all my domains from Porkbun. Before that, I used Namecheap.

 

[ristac]

Domains from namecheap and 123-reg and hosting with Krystal. Krystal do have options that only a support ticket can handle but my support tickets have always been addressed within 30 minutes. It helps prevents some idiot on shared hosting doing something that knocks everything out

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I use cloud flare for my domain names. Not been even a 10 second outage so far in 4 years I’ve been with them.

 

[bmi92]

Cloudflare is the one you want

 

[Netguy]

Godaddy any good?

 

[On Holiday]

Godaddy any good?

Certainly not! The only good thing I can say about GoDaddy is that they do at least give refunds quite easily over live-chat.
They have incredibly shady domain sniping practices and unnecessary increased renewal costs.

Porkbun, NameSilo & CloudFlare are the ones I'd trust for domains.

 

[ristac]

Godaddy any good?

I’d never use Godaddy again, just horrible to deal with

 

[killsta]

I use namecheap. Seems much of a muchness, never had an issue.

 

[Phunky]

I've used Gandi.net for years, pricing usually varies but always found there support and offering to be good enough to keep me put.

 

[chippie]

Previously used Gandi, but their prices keep creeping up and up.

Moved a bunch of domains to cloudflare - you have to use their nameservers though, which I don’t always want to do.

But they are by far the cheapest, so I’ve taken to moving a domain to them, renew it for a long time (for some I’ve done the maximum they allow of 9 years) then move it back somewhere else.

 

[Azza]

Have a couple with Cloudflare and AWS but moved the majority from Namecheap to Porkbun when the renewed end of last year.

 

[Doughnut007]

Currently with namecheap