A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Domains was one of the few Google products I still used. Free WHOIS, simple/clean interface, no pushy upsells, and it took advantage of Google's scale.
Also interested in recommended alternatives. I saw Porkbun mentioned a few times on HackerNews.
I have some experience with porkbun. Support is nice and pricing is pretty good. That's about it. Their own DNS is just cloudflared without many features which I don't mind because I don't use it.
Does anybody know what will happen with the Gmail integration? I was able to create a wildcard alias for my domain and used it quite a bit to register to websites using websitename@mydomain.com, instead of the trick of using RFC 5233.... Made dealing with spam and knowing which website leaked your email a breeze.
Any alternatives you guys suggest?
Yeah, this one affects where I was hosting my domains.
Any recommendations on what to do? Should I try transferring now? Would you just wait it out and see what happens?
I have another domain with NameCheap, they seem ok and I'll probably transfer over to them. Better to make a little extra work for myself than wait for some Google/Squarspace to run me through a ringer.
Thank you, I'll have to check them out. And yes, that's what I worry of, there is a specific reason I chose a provider, and having another one chosen for me, when we don't even know what level of UI/service/features they will provide is pretty annoying.
I transferred 2 domains to NameCheap and the whole process took less than 2 hrs from first click to done. I messed up my wildcard+DDNS but that wasn't NameCheap's fault and only took a few min to sort out.