Recently moved over to porkbun after dealing with a couple billing issues with namecheap and not getting the best customer service. Been pretty happy so far.

I've been moving my stuff over to Porkbun from Gandi after Gandi updated their ToS and changed their pricing structure.

CloudFlare

Namecheap for registrar and Cloudflare for the name servers. Always keep those services separated so if one dies, you can still get into the other service to fix it.

Cloudflare and Namecheap. I would use Cloudflare because of cost

~~Google Domains because I have a Google account and buying a domain on it was easy when I needed it. I'm still on Google Domains but you've reminded me I need to continue the transfer to Cloudflare before I get forced over to Square Space because they don't support Dynamic DNS.~~

Cloudflare.

Cloudflare for support (tooling), Njal.la for privacy (run by the pirate bay founder), porkbun for a happy medium and for the cool kids.

I have mine on Namecheap, but i’ve moved the nameserver to Cloudflare. Been using them for a while, can’t complain at all. Am also paying for their email service on the same domain

njal.la

Namecheap because I pay 88 cents a year for my domain.

Namecheap because they've lived up to their name. The DNS for my domains is all on Cloudflare though as I can automate my letsencrypt renewal that way that I couldn't on plain old namecheap.

Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.

Namecheap bc I typed where to buy cheap domains and that was the first one.

Cloudflare, because my understanding is that they typically renew at basically cost, and that’s where most of my other DNS stuff is anyway.

I typically buy domains at whatever registrar is cheapest at the time for initial purchase, which most recently was namecheap IIRC.

Cloudflare cause they already had my DNS and google domains was on its way to the google graveyard. Not sure how privacy respecting they are but they do offer some kind of partial whois redaction. Surely better than google though?

Namecheap since I have been using them since the 00s and never had any problems.

Gandi.net

GDRP and anonymous hosting. Pretty great.

Namecheap.

It wasn't GoDaddy.

I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for a very long time. They're a small, reliable, outfit that's been around forever and definitely respects your privacy.

Porkbun because it was super easy, one of the cheapest, and has rest good guides for noobs for how to connect various hosting sites (like, using Google sites but owning the domain from porkbun)

Porkbun asks for your ID now so that might not be "privacy-respecting" but their CS is very helpful from my experience.

I have domains in Netim and Spaceship, and I have no problems with either so far.

Njal.la. They buy the domain for you and let you control it. They also don't give whois information by default.

Porkbun

Not kosher and offered best price

The first registrar I used was DomainSite, around 20 years ago. They still exist but are called Name.com now. They're a pretty good registrar.

I have most of my domains at Porkbun these days. They're great too, and a bit cheaper.

In terms or privacy-respecting, most registrars will mask your WHOIS info for free, to comply with laws like GDPR. Never pay for "WHOIS privacy".

Previously Gandi, but they've jacked up their prices and cut features, so in the process of moving to AWS Route53.

My main requirements are:

• Competitively priced (doesn't need to be the absolute cheapest, but the feature set better justify the price)
• Able to manage domain with Terraform (I've got 10 domains, and copy-pasting DNSSEC keys around gets old really fast)
• Not be CloudFlare (fuck those guys in particular)

I rent a domain from namesilo

OVH, reasonably priced, API for DNS management and existing certbot integration

Namecheap because it’s easy and quick to use. They have good prices on new domains as well. Their prices are less attractive in renewals though, so I’d suggest transferring your domain after buying it to Cloudflare or NameSilo or PorkBun or the like.

I'm using my local registrar. 10 years ago, when I registered my first domain, it was one of few options I was familiar with, and they had offered a discount. I could find something cheaper, but we're talking about 8EUR/year. It doesn't really matter.

I'm not super knowledgeable on this, but I chose Dynadot because it's cheap and WHOIS privacy is included.

What privacy concerns do you have? I'm all for privacy, but I don't really see where registrars are a delicate topic in that. The most that comes to mind is that some (most?) have a service where they do not give out your name and address for whois requests, but instead the details of the registrar (namecheap has that for example).