Now I'm curious how the data looks for us nerds over here on the fediverse: where do you register your domains?

If at multiple places, let's interpret this as if you were registering a domain today, where would you register it?

tackily if you don't mind boosting I'd actually like a lot of data on this I'm really curious!

GoDaddy 3%
NameCheap 16.9%
Tucows (includes lots of resellers) 3.8%
GMO Internet / Onamae 0%
Dynadot 0.9%
NameSilo 0.3%
Squarespace wtf 0.8%
Alibaba 0%
Cloudflare 7.2%
eNom 0.2%
Porkbun 20.8%
Other 46%
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Ginny Mae :verifiedtrans:

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among many other things, any company with a page for their 88x31 buttons is probably based yeah

none of what i am about to say is a criticism or speaks poorly for the company, but my own subjective preferences have a couple of concerns for me personally:

  • the pricing is fine and reasonable to support a smaller company. if I had two domains, sure. but I have almost a hundred and the added expense would be pretty significant even just spot checking a few domains

  • i prefer to use registrars directly, avoiding resellers. resellers aren't a bad thing - i was one myself like 20 years ago - the bar for being a registrar is very high.

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