Requirements:
- Domain registration (duh)
- Privacy.
- DNS included.
- Preferably based in the EU, but it’s not a hard requirement
GoDaddy has been a joke of a company for decades now.
Is Cloudflare an option?
Cloudflare is American.
maybe gandi? what pisses you off with godaddy?
Mostly their history of hoarding domain names and becoming too bug, 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.
Cross post this to [email protected]. They will likely have good answers too.
Porkbun! But US based too
Great point, I’m with porkbun til late October but plan to move to a non US register
Infomaniak, a Swiss registrar
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.
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).
Echoing the others who commented Porkbun, I’ve only ever had good experiences with them! They’re American though
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’ve been using Elevology for years and absolutely love them. www.elevology.com
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’ve always used OVH, never had problems with them. They also offer emails for pretty cheap.
Porkbun, AWS, cloudflare, and namecheap are commonly suggested.
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.
Namecheap myself for 10ish years now. Never been unhappy
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.
Switzerland and privacy sadly no longer checks out.
Oh no, what happened in Switzerland?
I’ve been using namecheap.
But not sure where they’re based.American though.
