The registrar my own domains sit at, including this one, some of them for well over twenty years.
Use it when
You want a registrar that has simply kept working for decades and you are not chasing the last dollar.
The catch
Not the cheapest, and the interface is from the era the domains are. Inertia is a legitimate reason to stay somewhere when the thing being protected is a 27-year-old address.
Where it sits in the stack
DirectNIC is filed under “The domain, which is the only part you truly own” in the stack directory. Its label there is the same one at the top of this page: i run this, meaning this is first-hand rather than read off a pricing page.
What has changed about its pricing
Nothing, as far as this site has recorded. DirectNIC has no entry in the price change log, which means either its pricing has held since this site started checking or nobody here has re-read it since the figure above was taken. The log distinguishes those two cases deliberately, and a tool with no entry is the weaker of them.
The alternatives in the same slot
These do the same job and sit in the same section of the directory.
- Cloudflare Registrar — listed, not tested, paid only
- Porkbun — listed, not tested, paid only
The whole stack, filterable, with the catch stated on every entry.
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