Selfhosted

Porkbun is sort of the darling of the self hosting community. I settled on them after doing a huge comparison of prices and features of all the different registrars available to me. Porkbun was by far the best.

I used to use Google Domains, but then they sold that off to Squarespace.

Now I just use Cloudflare directly lol which also includes their free services, which is quite the value IMO

TLD-List is a pretty good resource to compare different registrars for any tld.

Porkbun: probably more private than others.

Cloudflare: less expensive, best in class security, but less privacy obviously

netcup.de

For something cheap, my vote goes to name cheap. Their support was actually better than I expected too. For something private njalla is really good. Not sure what's a good mix of both though, maybe CloudFlare? I know you can move your domain to them, so I presume they also let you register directly through them.

I mostly use CloudFlare registrar since I'm already using them for my job. They don't have first year promo or anything like that, but they sell all domains at cost price and it integrates nicely with their other services. Sadly it does not support .ca domains yet but it does support lots of TLDs.

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Namecheap, Namesilo, and Porkbun are the ones that people around here seem to like.

Cloudflare

there are lots of cheap domain registrar options but if you're looking for a cheap .com I always go for cloudflare, they also offer .org for pretty cheap and many other options as well. The domains other than the common ones are pretty decently priced as well. I migrated all my domains there last year and it's really simple, integrates with their DNS really well and payment is pretty streamlined.

1984.hosting is a cheap and private cloud provider and domain registrar I've used for years with much success

Namesilo

I would stick with namecheap (for now) and pony up for a multi year registration. If in 5 or 10 years they are jacking the price up then you can use another registrars cheap port option to get a discount. I did this recently between godaddy and namecheap. I had one domain left with godaddy that I have owned for over probably a couple of decades at this point and they were seriously jacking the rate up on me, I ported it to namecheap for a massive discount.

With Google domains transferring to Squarespace I'll be transferring my one remaining domain with them to something else soon enough.

I already moved all of my other domains over to a local provider I use for work that has treated me well, but this one last google domain address has my self hosted services on it and I was using some features that I didn't want to have to transfer so I kept it with google. I was using their ddns service too but my IP is now sticky (effectively static but can change in some rare circumstances) and it has only changed once in the last 3 years so I think I'll just manually manage the A records if needed until I either go fully static or use a third party ddns provider. I also use email aliasing to use me@mydomain with gmail.

I use Dreamhost, can't speak to the privacy but the rates are pretty good

Honestly the best place to register a domain is http://ww

gen.xyz?

For self hosting, I've purchased .eu domain for ~24€, for 5 years. Later on it will be 11€/year.

I'll get another domain for similar price and for 5 years. :)

Lithuanian service, so I am not going to mention it. :)

EDIT: typo, 11€ per year instead of month

Idk about cheapness But I've been using dynadot and it seems like a really good balance of cheapness and quality

Hostinger is pretty cheap I think.

123cheapdomains.com