Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150

>>M0r13n+(OP)
TL:DR If you have a domain with Godaddy, move on to a proper service.

Depending on what you need, https://dnsimple.com seems to have a good reputation, I also see a bunch of people spreading their risk by putting DNS on one big (cloud) provider and all other services on other providers. This means that while Cloudflare does DNS registration now, you might still want to use Cloudflare for your DNS zone and something else for registration. That said, Cloudflare still has a good reputation (for paying customers!).

The idea behind that is the (generally) low fee of DNS registration is easy to monitor/check and maintain, so if all else fails you at least retain your domain name as an identity which is generally the foundation to everything else. While it might suck to lose the contents of a mailbox or a website, if you still retain the DNS registration you can always re-create.

Other service providers that don't structurally screw your DNS over (re-including the ones I mentioned):

  - AWS
  - Cloudflare
  - Leaseweb
  - Rackspace
  - transip
  - OVH
  - dnsimple

Those are the ones I have used (and most of them currently use) myself, but there are others that do domain registration and seem to come recommended by others:

  - GCP (Google)
  - EasyDNS
  - porkbun
  - Microsoft
  - Hetzner
  - key-systems GmbH (usually via one of their partners)
  - Scaleway

Most of them I do have some personal experience with (for what it's worth... we're just strangers on the internet here after all), but I never really had to do any long-term (10+ years) DNS registration with them.

If you are in an ITAR area, conflict region or trade sanctioned region, none of this will help tho.

>>onepla+H1
Which one do you recommend? Namecheap literally kicked me out (with 1 month deadline to transfer my domain) because I happen to have wrong passport color.

>>igorst+Z1
How does having the wrong passport color equal being kicked out?

>>balent+l2
It's a euphemism for trade restrictions.

>>onepla+x2
Ah, thanks. With all the weirdness going on, I wasn't sure we weren't talking immigration.

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