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A suitable foreign domain name registrar for a white domain in the .com zone?
There are several registrars to choose from, whose services I would like to use (the domain is white, a legal service is planned, so there is no particular need for watermelon resistance). There is a lot of information that had to be rummaged through, but it is largely outdated.
A small brief about them and what attracted or repelled:
namecheap.com is a good registrar with a lot of positive reviews, a mobile version of the site, the only registrar that has a native application for iOS (I don’t know about android). Prices are average, not quite "cheap". Whois Protection is paid, but something like 2 bucks a year.
We redesigned the site (it became simpler and cleaner)
There is a two-factor authorization system, but the simplest one is SMS to the phone (sim cards, as you know, can be reissued if necessary).
Round-the-clock support, there is a chat, for those who are interested - you can communicate in Russian, they seem to outsource it, today I talked with a girl from Ukraine.
The company was not noticed in any gross incidents (I did not find it)
name.com - mobile version of the site, two-factor authorization system with OTP support, domain prices are lower, Whois Protection is higher than in namechip. Support only by phone or mail strictly during certain hours.
They messed up in an incident when for several years they substituted some kind of record for subdomains, which led to the fact that if the user makes a mistake in the name of the subdomain (i.e. indicates a non-existent one), a page with a bunch of advertising of name.com itself was displayed Judging by the wiki , at the end of the 13th year they stopped this practice (which existed for 3-4 years, as I understood from the reviews on the network), but here, as they say, the sediment remained. Plus, there is unverified information that information from Whois is removed for a fee (if you seem to be late paying for this service).
There are conflicting reviews on the network (but most relate specifically to the situation associated with the substitution of their DNS services for subdomains)
In general, they arrange all sorts of promotions, have goodies, discounts, actively promote themselves, etc.
internetbs.net - a site straight from the mid-2000s, there is no mobile version, but there is two-factor authentication with OTP support (and some other third-party service), there is a chat, it seems also with round-the-clock support, they are located in the Bahamas, i.e. outside the jurisdiction of the United States (relevant for those who remember the problem of domain lock in the situation with Crimea), it is considered watermelon-resistant, they have a rutracker registered. Free Whois. In all other respects, an ordinary registrar (as it seemed to me).
UPD:Internetbs also turns out to be messed up in an interesting story - when paying / renewing a domain for several years, in fact the domain was extended for one year. Their Whois service showed the correct date for which you renewed, but third-party Whois services (several independent) showed that the domain was expired for only a year, then when it came time to renew, if the domain was not blocked, the company renewed it for another year. What was the calculation for, it is possible that the domain will lock up on a watermelon (there were such precedents), and the remaining funds will remain with the company, there may have been other reasons.
The choice between the three of them, I also looked at gandi, the level seemed the same as internetbs (with its goodies) and dynadot, but the latter somehow didn’t insert, I can’t explain why
PS Now I use namecheap and would stay with them, but the question arose about security, as I wrote above, there is a two-factor, but only with SMS. Maybe I'm driven on this issue, but nevertheless the question is, to stay or change it.
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