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Hover
Find the perfect domain name for your idea at Hover. All domains come with industry-leading customer support and free WHOIS privacy. Name your passion today!
Where it stands
4.1 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 1 of 3 signals
- Website health4.8 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Hover yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use Hover?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “Hover offers free Whois privacy. The page says: “We offer FREE Whois privacy and two-factor authentication and follow stringent…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Domain name search
Measured signals
4.8 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Hover's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 183 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Tag Manager.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 4 classified comments from 2 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“What's to stop me (possible hover CSR, co-worker, whatever) from simply reading a high-profile customer's password and transferring all their million dollar domain names to me later that night when I get home from work.…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I've considered using Hover and switching away from Godaddy, particularly since Hover is recommended frequently on the TWiT network. That thought has instantly evaporated”
Read in the thread - Critical
“For most people the social solution creates a worse usability problem than the one Hover is trying to fix. With unique passwords, the user is now responsible for maintaining (and securing) a list of passwords”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Im a customer of Hover and wasn't happy with the previous situation.”
Read in the thread
Threads: Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for usability (2011, 185 comments) · Hover secures passwords with bcrypt and adds ID verification (2011, 4 comments)
- Free tier
- Hover offers free Whois privacy. The page says: “We offer FREE Whois privacy and two-factor authentication and follow stringent data-processing practices.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- An account is required to purchase services from Hover. The page says: “When you purchase services from Hover, we create an account for you.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- User data is processed in Ontario, Canada. The page says: “Your account data and registration data are collected and processed by us in Ontario, Canada.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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