I am planning to move on AWS using route 53 and some programming.

Also considering cloudflare as well.

To all the responders here, can you list out the reasons on not moving to Route 53?

I put my DNS on Route53 since it makes things like cert management and record creation (via CDK) a breeze but I keep my domains on a different registrar (Namecheap, not a vote for or against them, just who I’ve used for a long time). Mainly to not have all my eggs in one basket though all but 1 egg doesn’t really save you. At a minimum I could switch the DNS to a static page explaining downtime if something happened to AWS/my account.

I moved all my domains from google domains -> CloudFlare a few years ago. I haven’t had any issues other than CloudFlare is missing support for some tlds, mainly “.dev”

I think it’s still the case that you have to use Cloudflare’s nameservers, is that right? I’m considering moving domains from Gandi but it would be a lot easier if I could just point at the nameservers I’m currently using on Route 53.

porkbun: https://porkbun.com/

Porkbun api is pretty bad

I’m considering Google Cloud Domains (watch as that gets announced as moving to Squarespace too in a week) or porkbun. Either way I want to make sure my account gets shut down and nothing gets ported over so I have one less SOC2 vendor to manage.

Yeah that'll probably disappear too.

I actually moved mine to Cloudflare in anticipation of Google domains shutting down about a year ago. Still surprised I predicted correctly.

Hover: https://www.hover.com/

Moving over to cloudflare where I already do most DNS stuff.

I’ve been using Dynadot for several years, so far it has worked out well.

Cloudflare and Porkbun.

What happens if we don’t move them?

most likely porkbun because they support .dev

Probably dnsimple for me