Gandi or GoDaddy? - Developers

Hello Web Development section, I'm buying a domain for a website user ": awesome :"(creator of [url]http://stickybomb.org[/url], and [url]http://tdoyle.me[/url]) built for my music project, and I wanna get it on the right website. I can get a Gandi.net domain or a GoDaddy, and the rates would be at: [B]GoDaddy:[/B] $10.69 a year ($6.89 with coupon) or [B]Gandi:[/B] $15.00 a year. (although if I go with Gandi I'm going to get the $30, for two years rate) Is there any big difference? Or does Gandi just have a nicer website? Which one do you/would you use?

GoDaddy is meh from what I've seen.

It doesn't make a difference at the end of the day, although Gandi is much nicer in terms of features and aesthetics. Gandi lets you very easily glue your own DNS servers, whereas I couldn't find that feature on GoDaddy. Also, GoDaddy pushes shit at you left, right and center when purchasing from them. Gandi doesn't. I would rather spend $5 more at Gandi simply for the nicer experience.

I have gotten 1 domain through godaddy and 2 through gandi and I must say that gandi was a much better experience. I think they are worth the extra few bucks [editline]08:31AM[/editline] This thread reminds me about how ugly my websites are :saddowns:

[img]http://ahb.me/1T7[/img] ^^ they got that right. Also, compare and make up your own mind: [img]http://ahb.me/1T8[/img] [img]http://ahb.me/1T9[/img] Ok, selected my domain and clicked next. [img]http://ahb.me/1Ta[/img] [img]http://ahb.me/1Tb[/img] Your choice.

Also might sound silly but have you looked into name.com? It would cost you $10.98 for a .com with whois privacy for one year with them and I highly suggest them for their service.

GoDaddy is terrible. I remember having them a while back. They use a custom cPanel, and the cPanel is on a remote site which is really slow, you can't just use "localhost" for mysql connections, they have another domain that always changes for that... I really hated it.

You used them for hosting? Ouch mang, I feel for you.

I use Dynadot, they're pretty good and cheap. [url]http://www.dynadot.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=KSI;22039389]GoDaddy is terrible. I remember having them a while back. They use a custom cPanel, and the cPanel is on a remote site which is really slow, you can't just use "localhost" for mysql connections, they have another domain that always changes for that... I really hated it.[/QUOTE] They don't use cPanel.

I use GoDaddy because: - Very cheap when you use coupons - I can put up with scrolling down a page and clicking "No thanks, continue" - I've watched almost every episode of [URL="http://www.bobparsons.me/index.php"]Bob Parsons'[/URL] video blog D: But tbh, it doesn't really matter where you buy domains. The product you get is pretty much exactly the same, and you're only going to be going back there once a year at most anyway (per domain).

I use [url]http://name.com[/url] and my own DNS server, they've been really good so far, I have about 11 domains with them. Recently they started charging for DNS Privacy but you can just fake it and it's cool.

[QUOTE=compwhizii;22041161]They don't use cPanel.[/QUOTE]I know. They use a custom control panel.

Namecheap, I love them. Free SSL, free WHOISGuard, nicely priced, no bullshit and very easy to use even on a slightly crammed up site.

Thanks for the multitude of responses.. I'm going with Gandi.. Keep suggestion though, this thread might come in handy in the future.

gandi is master race

I like gandi and have about 3 domains registered with them, but i would probably use godaddy right now if i had to buy a domain. Very cheap prices, and they have been longtime sponsors of several podcasts that i watch/listen to. I can get over clicking 'no thanks' a few times.