Who is the best domain registrar for resellers today?

[blakeh 2]

8 hours ago, PapaKai said:

HEXONET -> Germany / Canada - you can have your account in USD
Team HEXONET works closely together with other WHMCS Brands RRPproxy, TPP Wholesale and internet.bs, all part of the CentralNic Group PLC

We have clients that require their services to be hosted by US based companies. It's not a matter of using USD or not.

[blakeh 2]

11 hours ago, evolve hosting said:

Tucows started in the US but they are now based in Toronto, Canada. For the US, there's Godaddy, Namecheap, Namesilo and I'm sure many others that aren't coming to mind right now. None of these are registrars I care to use but they exist in the US.

I don't consider godaddy/namecheap/namesilo as serious contenders when dealing with thousands of domains. 

[lulzkiller 4]

Go with hexonet - They offer whmcs modules, and their support are quite fast to reply. And if you have enough domains you can also discuss pricing with them 😉

[PapaKai 32]

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We have clients that require their services to be hosted by US based companies. It's not a matter of using USD or not.

Ok, got it. This makes the selection hard. imho the best idea is to start/continue business with the registrar doing best in/with WHMCS.
Support Quality matters. If you have a registrar doing in general well, it doesn't mean they do well in WHMCS too.
With the wrong registrar, you'll be ending up into customer support on your end worst case in future. Just my opinion on that.

Maybe it is then also a matter of which services. Is it sufficient to only keep hosting / dns in the us, but doing domain business outside of the us?

Majority of customers just worry about hosting. DNS should be sprayed over the world anyways to fasten and harden it up as possible.
I can forward that HEXONET has customers from around the world and especially with WHMCS we are doing very well.
Still your decision @blakeh, just wanted to follow-up.

Enjoy your day!

Kai

 

[blakeh 2]

6 hours ago, PapaKai said:

Ok, got it. This makes the selection hard. imho the best idea is to start/continue business with the registrar doing best in/with WHMCS.
Support Quality matters. If you have a registrar doing in general well, it doesn't mean they do well in WHMCS too.
With the wrong registrar, you'll be ending up into customer support on your end worst case in future. Just my opinion on that.

Maybe it is then also a matter of which services. Is it sufficient to only keep hosting / dns in the us, but doing domain business outside of the us?

Majority of customers just worry about hosting. DNS should be sprayed over the world anyways to fasten and harden it up as possible.
I can forward that HEXONET has customers from around the world and especially with WHMCS we are doing very well.
Still your decision @blakeh, just wanted to follow-up.

Enjoy your day!

Kai

 

See my post here: 

 

They seem to have some issues accepting new resellers, and I didn't have time to chase them to ask if I could be a customer. 

[PapaKai 32]

I hope you noticed me pointing on the security/data breach of epik.com? You should not consider working together with an unsecure registrar, if you highly consider your customer interests. I guess, customers worry more about security than about keeping services in the US.

Edited October 1, 2021 by PapaKai

[Tengri 0]

I think it's connectreseller.com

[PapaKai 32]

I highly suggest to check if a registrar has a dedicated team assigned to 3rd-party Software Integrations. Most of the registrars don't have this in place and will lack in support when it comes to issues or problems.
We at CentralNic are there for our brands (HEXONET, RRPproxy, et al)

[blakeh 2]

Posting an update to this thread to bump it up.

Enom is doing a datacenter migration this weekend, I never got notification but other resellers might have. (https://enomstatus.com)

They have ran into issues and it keeps getting bumped, can't login at all.

They have stated that DNS should still resolve, it's just redirection that is down, but the issue appears to be that if you were using their redirection for your website, then it impacted all other records in the zone, including MX, so in effect, your whole DNS zone is down if you were redirecting your website.

Maybe with this WHMCS will find someone else to recommend?

Edited January 16, 2022 by blakeh

[bear 213]

17 minutes ago, blakeh said:

Maybe with this WHMCS will find someone else to recommend?

Only if there's a referral/affiliate program they can connect to and profit from. 

[blakeh 2]

On 1/16/2022 at 8:57 AM, bear said:

Only if there's a referral/affiliate program they can connect to and profit from. 

I see they're now promoting Godaddy along with Enom.

[bear 213]

24 minutes ago, blakeh said:

I see they're now promoting Godaddy along with Enom.

Looking at the docs, yup, referral:

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To signup for a GoDaddy reseller account, visit the URL below.

https://reseller.godaddy.com/whmcs

 

So surprising.

[blakeh 2]

16 minutes ago, bear said:

Looking at the docs, yup, referral:

So surprising.

Honestly, after what I'm going through today with Enom, I'm interested in taking a look. I know some of their reseller plans have an annual fee however.

[PapaKai 32]

Let me point to this thread regarding enom: 

 

[jurgenES 0]

I'm looking at opensrs as a domainreseller solution... What' s the difference with Enom? As they are both Tucows businesses...

[lulzkiller 4]

Unless you are a registrar for certain TLD's, then go with hexonet, you wont find any better domain providers.