Namecheap vs. Dynadot

[Christian Taylor]

I just did a video on my YouTube channel comparing 7 different domain registrars. The two registrars that stood out in my comparison were Namecheap and Dynadot. Namecheap is where I personally keep all of my domain names. I like their panel, app, customer service, and email hosting. I haven't come across another company to offer solid email hosting for $10/yr as they do, and I like having everything in one place.

With that being said, Dynadot has some killer support, their prices are way lower, and they have a pretty cool app too. It doesn't seem quite as polished as Namecheap in my opinion, but the price difference has really got my thinking about this...

I know I'm starting a war here, but which registrar out of the two do you think is better, and why?

 

[Erebus]

Dynadot - lower price, better support and simple panel.

 

[Zilla]

I use them both:

• host .com name at Namesilo.
• host .io , .best, .cloud names at Dynadot
• host .cc name at NC ...

 

[Steven McEvoy]

neither Namesilo.... no questions asked.

 

[Christian Taylor]

neither Namesilo.... no questions asked.

I truly don't understand the hype behind Namesilo. A few years ago I got it... they are cheap. But Dynadot is literally the same price or cheaper on some TLDs and so much less potato. The panel is modern and they have the app..

And if price is all you care about, Porkbun also offers a website that looks like it's from 2019 and has cheaper prices. Someone explain Namesilo to me LOL

 

[Christian Taylor]

I use them both:

• host .com name at Namesilo.
• host .io , .best, .cloud names at Dynadot
• host .cc name at NC ...

Gotcha. I've thought about splitting them up, but it doesn't really make sense to me, plus I really like seeing my portfolio in one place and it would bug me to have them spread across registrars.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

For me - it only depends on price per certain TLD (reg/transfer)...
When you deal with many TLDs and X,XXX domains - this factor beats all others.
So I don't have any favourite registrar.

p.s. Dynadot API is significantly better than NC API.

 

[DigiNames]

Both seem like good options, but I have several names at Dynadot and they are legit. As for Namesilo, I find their system to be less professional overall, I xfer names away from there as soon as I buy them. I honestly think it is just their interface, but it is not confidence inducing. It seems childish, if I had to describe it.

 

[Haris]

Dynadot, NameSilo and Name.com. Every single registrar except these 3 is awful.

 

[Christian Taylor]

Dynadot, NameSilo and Name.com. Every single registrar except these 3 is awful.

Every single one? I've tried quite a few registrars and I can only name two that I found "awful" (GoDaddy and domain.com). I would put Dynadot, Namecheap, and Porkbun in the "exceptional" category though.

 

[Haris]

Every single one? I've tried quite a few registrars and I can only name two that I found "awful" (GoDaddy and domain.com). I would put Dynadot, Namecheap, and Porkbun in the "exceptional" category though.

Regarding NameCheap, Just found out that all my domains at NameCheap have the whois address "[email protected]" and I have no idea why and how that happened. The panel is also a mess. Support is slow. Everything is slow actually.

Name.com is the fastest when it comes to management. But the support is not that fast, when compared to NameSilo. Renewals at Name.com are a bit high though

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Porkbun was created by the former name.com core team.

 

[Christian Taylor]

Regarding NameCheap, Just found out that all my domains at NameCheap have the whois address "[email protected]" and I have no idea why and how that happened. The panel is also a mess. Support is slow. Everything is slow actually.

Name.com is the fastest when it comes to management. But the support is not that fast, when compared to NameSilo. Renewals at Name.com are a bit high though

I'll agree with you that Namecheap's support is slow. That's sketch with the WHOIS email too.. I'd probably bail if that happened to me.

 

[Christian Taylor]

Porkbun was created by the former name.com core team.

Wow, didn't know that. Porkbun seems kinda "eh" from a panel perspective, but I can't deny that their prices are attractive.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Use NC LiveChat.
Most tasks they solve within minutes, 1h max.

 

[Haris]

Use NC LiveChat.
Most tasks they solve within minutes, 1h max.

Just waited 16 minutes for them to explain how to expedite a transfer.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just waited 16 minutes for them to explain how to expedite a transfer.

???

I regularly transfer .PROs from NC to 1and1...
And expedition email their system sends within 1-2 minutes...

 

[Haris]

???

I regularly transfer .PROs from NC to 1and1...
And expedition email their system sends within 1-2 minutes...

After I waited for hours to receive the auth. codes before realizing that the whois is set to '[email protected]', I changed the whois and then received that expedite email but I transferred out of Namecheap so long ago that I forgot that the approve button is hidden in the link which says that we should click it if we want to cancel the transfer. And to tell me that they took 16 minutes.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yes, text in their emails is not accurate.
But expedition works as expected, except .me (from my recent experience, they don't even send such emails for .me).

 

[Zilla]

I know I'm starting a war here

I fully agree...