Looks like Freeparking are helping out kiwi's doing 50% off their domains and hosting, good timing if you're wanting to get online during the lock down
Offer Conditions: 50% discount automatically applied to all new products and services. Not available on product renewals or plan upgrades. Offer ends midnight Sunday, 12 April 2020.
Full domain price list here for CrazyDomains:
https://www.crazydomains.co.nz/domain-names/
Price list here for FreeParking:
https://freeparking.co.nz/domain-names/pricing
But yeah, if you have any generic TLDs like .com, .net, .info etc, move them to CloudFlare, not only is it cheaper but they have DNSSEC. I just consolidated all of my non-generics to CrazyDomains the other day, and all of my generics to CloudFlare.
Only drama is that CloudFlare won't do initial registrations, so you have to have registered it somewhere else first. So go find a place offering like a buck for the first year and a billion dollar renewals, register with them, then transfer to CloudFlare.
I would stay away from CrazyDomains, absolute terrible support from off-shore so if you have any problems enjoy 7 emails over 3 days to get DNS right. There are cheaper providers out there, no real benefit if you're talking about cost and we're talking about $20 over 365 days difference here. But yeah i agree with CF can't beat the price and DNS management + all the other features.
I suggested it more for the hosting, as its local NZ hosting which is a benefit, plus NZ staff support
Weird, I've never contacted a registrar about DNS. It's a pretty automated system, I've only ever seen it not being right because I filled it in wrong.
What specifically did you need support about?
I haven't looked into their hosting but NZ based could be a good reason. But I'd probably register the domain elsewhere, then point the DNS at their hosting if it's a good buy, although I'd be wary about their renewal rates if their domains are anything to go by.
@danvelopment: Man, looking at their hosting prices, maybe I should get into the hosting game.
I could totally make room on my servers for customers. And their VPS! $80 per month for a single, 1GHz core, 20GB storage, 1.5GB of RAM and 20 GB international traffic.
Vultr offers much better than that for $5USD per month.
@danvelopment: Check out BinaryLane too - good service w/ various Australian locations. Prices are in AUD - close to parity with the NZD. The basic plan has less ram than Vultr's basic plan, but half the price.
@slat: Sweet, I'll check it out. I'm just dumping one of my Vultr VPS at the moment because the latency is too high for my SQL cluster but at some point I'll be moving into Australia and will need a bunch of servers for it, so more options is always great.
I tried AWS in the past but, whilst supposedly the spec was the same as Vultr and also in Sydney, it was falling behind every day then slamming the compute credits trying to catch up when told to. It was running so hard I couldn't SSH in after telling it to catch up on the SQL. Then it would only last 12 hours before falling behind and disconnecting again.
The Vultr equiv hit 30% CPU max but the 36ms was a killer, it drops from the cluster weekly. Set up a static at my father's house and just dumped an old laptop there not 10 minutes ago for that 3ms goodness. It doesn't need to be up all of the time, but it does need to be able to catch up on its own if the internet does go out.
Who else read this as 50% off Domino's Pizza lol. God excited that they were doing deliveries
We wish <3
Great googley moogley,
.nz
$47.95 /yr!
.com, $48 per year!
I have my .nz domains through CrazyDomains. $18 for the first year, $23 per year for renewals.
So at 50% off they're charging more than the competition for the first year, then absolutely REAMING you on renewals.
For .coms, CrazyDomains is $18 per year, but if you then move it to CloudFlare it becomes $8USD per year (about $14 at the current high exchange rate, down to around $11 a few months ago).
Bad deal.