I've been using namecheap. ~~But not sure where they're based.~~
American though.
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Porkbun! But US based too
Great point, I'm with porkbun til late October but plan to move to a non US register
Namecheap is the best I've found, can't see ever changing. The few times I needed support I got outstanding technical assistance. One case was wildly complicated, with the issue clearly on their back end, didn't have much hope. Explained to a rep, on a late Friday night, she said OK and went offline for 10-minutes. FIXED.
Another vote for Namecheap. I also like they support their legacy pricing for hosting at time of renewal. Many years ago I subscribed to a small hosting plan for a very low price. I had need to set up yet another hosting plan and went looking for it. My preferred one had been discontinued 6 years prior and the new lowest on was a chunk more expensive with fewer features (for my new hosting plan), but Namecheap still honors my old pricing for my original plan. So I currently subscribe to one "cheap" hosting plan and another "not quite as cheap", and am quite fine with that.
Namecheap myself for 10ish years now. Never been unhappy
GoDaddy has been a joke of a company for decades now.
Been happy with porkbun.
Same, just noting that they weren't a default option in my ddns plugin. I'm sure that's changed since 2023?
I don't use Porkbun for DNS, I also don't use ddns, for that matter, so I wouldn't know.
Godaddy is what I say when I throw my Pokéball to summon Incineroar.
☹️
Porkbun, AWS, cloudflare, and namecheap are commonly suggested.
Hetzner is pretty good for that and EU based.
It's Canadian but I use EasyDNS which has operated here forever. It's privately owned by a Mark Jeftovic who's fairly well known as an internet advocate / policy expert and ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada, so is privacy focused.
Porkbun.
Decent API, good prices, not trash people.
maybe gandi? what pisses you off with godaddy?
Mostly their history of hoarding domain names and becoming too big, but I moved some domains over to them a while back for the sake of simplicity. But after they have started to try and upsell me Ai generated web design I have started do dislike them even more, to the point where I'm looking to use some of me one else.
I feel like you might like joker.com
Feels like I've had domains there since the 90's and their interface show it
You won't get any ai slop and zero pressure from upsell with them.
When I complained about the kinda high expense of keeping all of my old joke domains, they actually suggested
just sign up as a reseller and it's cheap and you don't gotta do anything at all.
I've always used OVH, never had problems with them. They also offer emails for pretty cheap.
Absolute zero issues with netcup (EU/de). Also comparatively cheap usually, and has frequent sales (always the same offers, afaict).
DNS is included with Domains, but I'm using desec.io as my DNS mainly for full dnssec compliance (free, de based, if registrations are open, works with certbot DNS challenge for letsencrypt).
I'm surprised you held out this long! GoDaddy has had waves of stressing, and departures in correlative droves.
You show remarkable resilience and you can be proud of that.
Echoing the others who commented Porkbun, I've only ever had good experiences with them! They're American though
Cloudflare except I think they're in the US.
Privacy is free. Domains are at cost. DNS is updatable via the webui and API as well.
Infomaniak, a Swiss registrar
Edit : or perhaps don't https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-rank-and-comes-out-in-support-of-controversial-swiss-encryption-law
I do use infomaniak as well and can very much recommend them. Their support is first class and they do offer a bunch of other useful services (with which I‘m very satisfied as well).
Sadly privacy and Switzerland no longer checks out.
If you're talking about the latest proposal to hamper encryption, it didn't pass.
https://www.inside-it.ch/vupf-revision-faellt-in-der-vernehmlassung-komplett-durch-20250507
Nope,more that stuff: https://www.republik.ch/2024/01/09/der-bund-ueberwacht-uns-alle
The current one was just the cherry on top.
Switzerland and privacy sadly no longer checks out.
Oh no, what happened in Switzerland?
What pissed you off about GoDaddy?
Is Cloudflare an option?
Cloudflare is American.
Take a look at metaname. They offer a very minimal (read: unencumbered) service, and are based in New Zealand. Not the EU, but at least it's not the US.
Nukeproof domain name
I like Hetzner. They host my server and my domains.
I've never had problems with Squarespace since they took over registrations from Google Domains, which I used to use.
I use BlueHost or RackNerd these days
INWX.de?