Domain registers

[busowner987]

Who are you using to register your domains with?

I have a host but they don't have a control panel where we can see all of our domains which is not good.

We used Names.co.uk in the past but service forced us to move. They did however have a control panel where we could monitor all names.

 

[UKSBD]

123-REG

 

[Craig Bird]

We have moved a lot of domains between 3 registrars, now all are on GoDaddy - I cant fault them!

 

[Darren_Ssc]

.uk - LCN
.co.uk - Google
.com - Cloudflare

 

[busowner987]

omg Google selling domains. They and amazon will control the world.

 

[Alex Calinov]

I've been using namecheap for the last couple of years. They've been great, and any DNS settings I would make, would get updated quite fast.

Plus it's a lot cheaper than other registrars.

 

[Stephan_]

You can try godaddy.com. I think their panel is easy to use

 

[arnydnxluk]

I would recommend Hover, they deal in domains only.

 

[Alex Calinov]

I would recommend Hover, they deal in domains only.

Hover is good as well. The DNS settings are being propagated quite fast, the only downside is that you have to pay if you want to create an email forwarder. while with namecheap you get that for free.

 

[Simon-TP]

@TotalWebSolutions (no relation) are UK based with dedicated support and decent control panel. They are Nominet and ICANN Registrars (not resellers)

 

[Shaun Kelly]

123 reg

 

[HostMamba]

We have moved a lot of domains between 3 registrars, now all are on GoDaddy - I cant fault them!

I would agree with this, Godaddy are great for managing everything in one place.

 

[fisicx]

I would agree with this, Godaddy are great for managing everything in one place.

No they aren't.

 

[KM-Tiger]

The DNS settings are being propagated quite fast

Just to note that there is no such thing as DNS 'propagation'. The term was invented by ISPs to mask their own inefficiency.

How quickly DNS records update when changed depends on what the TTL (Time To Live) was set to when a change was made, and whether all systems between the querying device and the nameservers respect that TTL. Windows computers, for instance, do not.

 

[arnydnxluk]

@TotalWebSolutions (no relation) are UK based with dedicated support and decent control panel. They are Nominet and ICANN Registrars (not resellers)

Wouldn't consider them after their nonresponse to this thread.

 

[Alex Calinov]

Just to note that there is no such thing as DNS 'propagation'. The term was invented by ISPs to mask their own inefficiency.

How quickly DNS records update when changed depends on what the TTL (Time To Live) was set to when a change was made, and whether all systems between the querying device and the nameservers respect that TTL. Windows computers, for instance, do not.

My main point is that when I set a DNS record with 123reg takes hours, even a day, while when I do it with Namecheap or others it takes a few minutes.

 

[arnydnxluk]

My main point is that when I set a DNS record with 123reg takes hours, even a day, while when I do it with Namecheap or others it takes a few minutes.

I'm being a bit pedantic here but it's nothing to praise Namecheap or Hover for, they're just doing their job as a DNS hosting provider - updating their servers when you configure your DNS records. It's certainly a valid complaint about 123 Reg who must be updating their servers periodically (either that or you were using a longer TTL with 123 Reg, or worse they don't allow you to configure the TTL at all).

It's kind of like saying: I recommend Google Domains because they register my chosen domain immediately after payment; or, I recommend Gusto because they serve the food cooked !

 

[fisicx]

My main point is that when I set a DNS record with 123reg takes hours, even a day, while when I do it with Namecheap or others it takes a few minutes.

I use 123reg and it only takes a few minutes.

 

[HostMamba]

Just to note that there is no such thing as DNS 'propagation'. The term was invented by ISPs to mask their own inefficiency.

How quickly DNS records update when changed depends on what the TTL (Time To Live) was set to when a change was made, and whether all systems between the querying device and the nameservers respect that TTL. Windows computers, for instance, do not.

Precisely, love the dig about masking their own inefficiency, agree entirely.

Even on records with short TTL the only real hold up for much larger hosts is the imposed delays. I work with several giants that have 5 minute runs for a DNS push to be sent out to the nameservers, simply because they're sending out updates from webservers in batches of thousands & doing it ad-hoc would be ridiculous.

In the "old days" GoDaddy used to get around this overhead by maintaining hundreds of nameservers & pairing say only 10 webservers to each set of nameservers whilst still allowing "instant" updates. Now we see their setup has lined up with the "standard" of pushing updates out to a handful of NS every xx minutes.