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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS
03:58 Domain name flattening
05:07 Domain name privacy
05:31 Proxy registrations
06:44 Bait and switch registrars
11:56 Domain registrars we found
13:09 NameCheap and Spaceship
Namecheap
Spaceship
17:42 GoDaddy
GoDaddy
19:26 Ghandi
Gandi.net
21:16 Porkbun
Porkbun
22:18 Hover
Hover.com
24:24 Name
Name.com
26:24 Cloudflare
Cloudflare
28:04 What’s the process for moving d
iwantmyname
DNSimpleomains to a new registrar?
30:38 I Want My Name and DNS Simple
33:05 Finding domain names
37:28 What would you pick to register a domain today?
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