Comment by captn3m0
8 hours ago
A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/
I'm planning to migrate out.
8 hours ago
A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/
I'm planning to migrate out.
I did a whois lookup now, and it seems like your domain still has privacy protection (or it was applied by Namecheap again) and is violating the registry rules.
Namecheap turned me into a newt
Burn them!
So what company are people switching to? Namecheap used to be a reasonable choice -oh wait there is another thread with that discussion
- Porkbun (see the thread below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144164)
- Cloudflare
Porkbun for me. I tried using CF's domain service and at least at that time it was hard for me to tell head from the tail on their interface. Hope that has changed. (I just wanted to distribute my domains between the two serices, otherwise Porkbun is fine as it is).
I’ve got some domains in Cloudflare and some in Porkbun. No issues yet. I also like how straightforward Porkbun is while still supporting API automation and team accounts.
I could see Cloudflare randomly deciding that my single-employee company domain name needs an enterprise plan in a few years from now.
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Wanted to dog pile on this - Godaddy gave away my entire account back when I was younger. I lost lots of domains, including my website, "strategywiki.org".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507411
Looks like I'll be transitioning off of Namecheap now too.
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I switched to Hover. Part of TUCOWS. Yes, that one [0].
[0] Tucows, which stands for "The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software"
Porkbun was very pleasant to use, would definitely recommend them!
I wanted something in the EU, so I went with INWX - their UI is quite unintuitive/bad in my eyes though. I guess Hostinger/IONOS/Gandi/... would also be pretty popular for anyone like me.
I have good experiences with both porkbun and INWX as well. INWX could indeed use a UX update.
I used to use TransIP.nl and while they are still good, they’ve gotten expensive over the last few years.
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Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare and NearlyFreeSpeech
S&Ps use MarkMonitor.
+1 For Amazon Route 53 - one of the services that they don't nickel and dime you on.
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Porkbun
Yeah, I'm not waiting around for Namecheap to screw me, I'm moving to porkbun. They do all the stuff Namecheap does for me now.
I've been waiting for the "porkbun screwed me" stories, but haven't seen any yet.
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CloudFlare
Then you need a new username
Hover
Dynadot
It asks you to choose 4 (four!) "secret questions" as a "security" measure. I decided that keeping your domains with an organization that insists on idiotic practices that are firmly forbidden by every sensible security practices guide (OWASP, NIST 800-63, anything, really) since like 2015 is not a very wise choice.
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joker.com
They have been around forever. I registered my first domain from them sometime during the early internet era.
EasyDNS
internet.bs
>I'm planning to migrate out.
Where to?
I have like 20 domains with them, this is really bad news for me.
I was at GANDI but they became absolute trash and hostile towards their customers as well, hence why I left for Namecheap.