Joker.com
Shares rank 9 of 12 domain registrars by recommenders
A long-running domain registrar that one user has relied on for about 25 years and calls solid. The most common caveat is unusually high prices, with one critic also citing recent bad experiences.
A long-running domain registrar that one user has relied on for about 25 years and calls solid. The most common caveat is unusually high prices, with one critic also citing recent bad experiences.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Unusually high prices
“a series of compounding bad experiences in just the past 3 years on top of their unusually high prices”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains” Recent repeated bad experiences
“a series of compounding bad experiences in just the past 3 years on top of their unusually high prices”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains” Third-party Google scripts on site
“they have 3rd party google scripts on their site”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains”
Other domain registrars people recommend
The four most recommended other domain registrars, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | 81 | 18 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Namecheap | 35 | 130 | 21% | 9 | 14 yrs9 owners | — |
| Cloudflare Registrar | 18 | 9 | 67% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Hover | 13 | 18 | 42% | 3 | 15 yrs3 owners | — |
| Joker.comThis page | 8 | 3 | 73% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“they have 3rd party google scripts on their site”
“I'm not sure which name I hate more”
“I've been using joker.com for ~25 years - solid registrar.”
“a series of compounding bad experiences in just the past 3 years on top of their unusually high prices”
“Never heard anything bad about them or had any problems.”
“my IR-accelerated Clojure interpreter (which can also do WASM, and thus isolates)”
“How smoothly it wraps Go libs”
“I think it is brilliant and completely underappreciated”
“how close can you get to looking like Taxi Driver without being Taxi Driver”
“even added Markdown support to Joker over the years”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.