Please recommend a bulletproof domain registrar.

Hi Everyone,

I recently decided to give propush a try about 8 days ago by implementing their push subscription script on my website (revenue share only). However, a few days later (about 4 days after) my domain was suspended by the registrar (OwnRegistrar, Inc.) for Phishing/Malware. Domain was restored about 3 days after I confirmed the removal of propush scripts to them.

I reached out to Propush support during the outage period and they confirmed to me that they do not have malware on their network but sometimes get false positives due to the nature of their javascript execution.

I'm considering implementing their script again but only after transferring the domain to another registrar that is not as brash as the current one. The site is currently hosted on Nexcess though.

Can you please recommend me a few registrars that will be fit for purpose? Thanks in advance.

Try https://njal.la/

Smeklinis said:

Try https://njal.la/

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Just a quick note for the OP, these kind of "offshore" registrars usually hold the domain in their name, for you. You are not really the registered owner. They don't hide that fact, it is clearly written on their website. Just a thing to consider when building up your online business, that sometimes all you are doing is swapping one risk for another, not really eliminating your exposure. In OP's case of site, I think buying a domain from such registrar is still a good decision, just don't create a million dollar brand with a registrar like that.

oldguyjoe said:

Just a quick note for the OP, these kind of "zero-fucks-given" registrars usually hold the domain in their name, for you. You are not really the registered owner. They don't hide that fact, it is clearly written on their website. Just a thing to consider when building up your online business, that sometimes all you are doing is swapping one risk for another, not really eliminating your exposure. In OP's case of site, I think buying a domain from such registrar is still a good decision, just don't create a million dollar brand with a registrar like that.

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Thanks for that information. I also guess I can transfer my domain out of these to other registrars if I choose to do so in future, correct?

Emmerlee said:

Thanks for that information. I also guess I can transfer my domain out of these to other registrars if I choose to do so in future, correct?

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I am not their user, but I assume it should be as easy as with any other registrar. It just takes up to a week to complete. You'll need to unlock the domain, grab the transfer code and submit it with njal.la.

oldguyjoe said:

I am not their user, but I assume it should be as easy as with any other registrar. It just takes up to a week to complete. You'll need to unlock the domain, grab the transfer code and submit it with njal.la.

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Thanks, but why a week? Domain transfers usually take about 24 hours on average to complete from experience. Is this a thing with njal.la and related registrars only?

oldguyjoe said:

Just a quick note for the OP, these kind of "offshore" registrars usually hold the domain in their name, for you. You are not really the registered owner. They don't hide that fact, it is clearly written on their website. Just a thing to consider when building up your online business, that sometimes all you are doing is swapping one risk for another, not really eliminating your exposure. In OP's case of site, I think buying a domain from such registrar is still a good decision, just don't create a million dollar brand with a registrar like that.

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This is exactly how it works, it will protect you but not the domain.

Emmerlee said:

Thanks, but why a week? Domain transfers usually take about 24 hours on average to complete from experience. Is this a thing with njal.la and related registrars only?

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Did you experience the transfer between different registrars within 24 hours or between different domain owners within the same registrar?
Last domain I moved from one registrar to another took a week to process and it was godaddy -> namecheap. I guess it depends on how fast your current registrar releases the domain. Up to a week is not uncommon according to google. Also, the process can only be stopped by the receiver.

Emmerlee said:

Thanks for that information. I also guess I can transfer my domain out of these to other registrars if I choose to do so in future, correct?

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Transfer to Njal is easy.
It works right after current domain registrar releases domain for transfer.

Read current registrar FAQ when they release domain after transfer request.

No one domain is protected because it is ICANN and country level domain registries.
If you do some really bad things they will shut down your domain.

oldguyjoe said:

Did you experience the transfer between different registrars within 24 hours or between different domain owners within the same registrar?
Last domain I moved from one registrar to another took a week to process and it was godaddy -> namecheap.

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Wow, I recently did bluehost to godaddy, and the current one was from godaddy to ownregistrar. Both took about 24 hours max.
Just to confirm, in the course of that transfer week there was no downtime on your site correct?

Frukt said:

This is exactly how it works, it will protect you but not the domain.

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What is the implication of protecting me but not the domain? Meaning if there's an ambiguous malware report I will be protected but domain could be suspended (similar to what I recently experienced)?

I used one njal.la once
Never had issue

Emmerlee said:

Wow, I recently did bluehost to godaddy, and the current one was from godaddy to ownregistrar. Both took about 24 hours max.
Just to confirm, in the course of that transfer week there was no downtime on your site correct?

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There was no site for the domain at the time, but I assume there would be no downtime, as long as you set the same DNS servers. If you are also changing your hosting provider, they will be some downtime. I think a CDN could mitigate a short downtime by caching your page in entirety.

2x4.ru, used to be good bp host and domain provider. Not sure about today, but they are long time around. Pay with crypto

Njal.la
Cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

All this accepts Crypto.

Prices are expensive... if you are looking for cheap, is not easy.

It should be borne in mind that all domain name registrars are regulated by ICANN (boletprof of regular ones - does not matter).
In case of any issue or problem I'm afraid that will be really hard to win the game.

I would suggest webnames.ru and actually getting a bulletproof tld, like .su or .ru
Getting a .com will be irrelevant as ICANN can do whatever they want, regardless of the registrar