[lug] DNS Registrar and DNS provider - recommendations?

[Matt James]

+1 on Gandi.  They even have an API and I run a script that I snagged off
some git repo (could go find it if you're interested) that updates my
records - poor man's DDNS so to speak, but it works flawlessly for me.

Matt

On Sun, Jul 7, 2019, 9:48 PM David L. Willson <dlwillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:

> I <3 Gandi. 3 or 4 years. 2 important domains. Up to 6 domains total at
> any time.  Registration, DNS, Wordpress for a year or so. 0 complaints.
> They rock.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Jed S. Baer" <blug at jbaer.cotse.net>
> Date: 7/7/19 8:48 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] DNS Registrar and DNS provider - recommendations?
>
> I have a .NET domain, registered through DynDNS, which I did quite a
> while ago, before Dyn was acquired by Oracle. Oracle has announced the
> EOL for the standard DNS offering from Dyn, with migration to Oracle
> Cloud Infrastructure, which sounds like something not targeted for small
> fish such as myself. I actually make almost no use of my domain, but I
> keep it, for hysterical porpoises, and maybe I'll get the bug and fire up
> a blog again sometime.
>
> So, I'm looking at migrating, and I don't need hosting, just registration
> and DNS, with URL forwarding. I don't even have e-mail on the domain
> right now. I've identified the following candidates.
>
> - NameCheap
> - Gandi
> - CheapDomain
>
> I don't want to go with Google, Cloudflare, 1&1, GoDaddy, and similar
> companies, and if I do set up another blog, I'll use hosting seperate
> from my DNS provider.
>
> Any thoughts or other recommendations?
> Thanks.
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