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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Where to Register a Domain

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS 03:58 Domain name flattening 05:07 Domain name privacy 05:31 Proxy registrations 06:44 Bait and switch registrars 11:56 Domain registrars we found 13:09 NameCheap and Spaceship Namecheap Spaceship 17:42 GoDaddy GoDaddy 19:26 Ghandi Gandi.net 21:16 Porkbun Porkbun 22:18 Hover Hover.com 24:24 Name Name.com 26:24 Cloudflare Cloudflare 28:04 What’s the process for moving d iwantmyname DNSimpleomains to a new registrar? 30:38 I Want My Name and DNS Simple 33:05 Finding domain names 37:28 What would you pick to register a domain today? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with

0:06.9

JavaScript CSS node module barbecue tips get workflows break dancing soft skills web

0:12.1

development the hastiest the crazy it's the tastiest web development

0:16.7

treats coming in hot here is Wes Barracuda boss and Scott El Toro Lungo Tolinsky

0:26.2

Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about domain

0:32.0

registrars a lot of people just had the rogue pulled out from under them with the announcing

0:37.5

of Google domains closing so if you are just hearing this for the first time and you have domains

0:42.5

on Google domains well they have been acquired by square space and that means over the next

0:50.5

X amount of months you are going to be becoming a square space customer unless you move your domains

0:56.7

off of Google domains so we figured what a perfect time to do an episode on domain registrars

1:03.2

we're going to be talking about some UX stuff we're going to be talking about some DNS

1:07.5

base features we're going to be talking about some privacy features and pricing is important

1:13.6

on top of all of that and a lot of this will be our experiences and some research in general so

1:18.9

we have a number of options here we're going to be getting into my name is Scott Tolensgaima

1:23.4

developer from Denver and with me as always is Wes boss hey yeah we've we've talked about

1:30.6

where to register domain names in the past and it's actually doing some research for this

1:36.8

episode I think since the last time we've talked about it a lot has changed a lot of prices have

1:42.4

kind of come down so we're going to be getting into what do you need to look for and register our

1:48.9

what is what's important what's not important how much should you be spending are they going to

1:53.9

bait and switch on you and we just have I just rattled through a list of some of the more popular ones

2:01.6

but hopefully you'll walk away from this quick episode with pretty pretty ready to make a decision

2:07.6

so the first thing we have here is just it's important to understand the difference between

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