If you trust Google, you can consider https://domains.google.com/registrar too. It's fairly straight-forward, no nickel and dime, you get private registration for free, and I am quite confident that it'll be hard for someone to use social engineering to steal my domain from there.
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#12NearlyFreeSpeech.net?
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#13GoDaddy has had a lot of social engineering scandals, I wouldn't ever do any business with them.
Been with namecheap for quite a while, had no issues.
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#14Noooooo!!!! None of those. I go with Gandi.net Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi. You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs. Al…
I too use Gandi, but am not as happy as I used to be with them.
I bought a domain from them a while back with private registration; a few weeks later I found out that private registration was not available for that TLD, and my details were publicly visible, making the domain unusable to me. I emailed Gandi, and they told me there was nothing they could do; they were not willing to refund my money, even though their site said private whois was possible for that TLD.
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#15I had this question a few months ago and eventually settled on iwantmyname. I'm pleased I did. Simply fantastic service in my experience. Friendly customer service staff who'll just have a light-hearted chat on Twitter and a really, genuinely simple and useful control panel. Pricing OK, I'm paying £9.90/year for a .net, can't remember about others. I highly recommend them.
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#16Former user of both godaddy and namecheap but I've been using hover.com for a while now with no complaints.
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#17I use Namecheap, which offers 2FA. I'm sure others do as well at this point but that's a requirement for me.
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#18I've been with name.com for probably five years now and I've been pretty happy with them. If I've ever had a question, I can call them and get right through and have my question answered. They haven't given me a reason to look anywhere else.
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#19You may also register domains with Amazon AWS. They are reselling Gandi, but it's $12/year and it's nice to have them all centralized under the AWS console if you use AWS.
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#20As a company, we own a lot of domains, so we like to spread the load. We use lots of registrars. Of the major ones, I'd say Namecheap and Gandi are the best. We also use DNSimple who are good but have since moved to "I Want My Name" for the newest ones since they don't require you to upgrade your account the more domains you buy (they price their services into the domain cost instead, which works better for us).
All that said, I'd love to have a registrar that just sent us an annual bill for all of our domains (even if it's in advance) rather than billing us separately for every one. It's an accounting headache with all the expenses. I believe GoDaddy does that, but.. no thanks :)