Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

Namecheap. Me domain discounts for students.

I use Dreamhost for almost all of my domains. I have been hosting with them since 2003 and for simple hosting needs they have been just what I need, no hassle, no attempts to sell me other products I don't need, and reasonably responsive tech support in the (pretty rare) cases when I've needed it. Based on that hosting experience I started moving my registrations to them as well (mainly from GoDaddy but a few from Network Solutions), and by now almost all of them are with Dreamhost.

I have a few domains that are with GoDaddy simply because I paid for ten year registration years ago when they had special deals for that, and the ten years haven't expired yet. When they do I expect to move those remaining domains to Dreamhost as well.

PairDomains.com – boring UI, strong passwords allowed, two factor authentication via TOTP or SMS. Cover most of the popular TLDs but not many of the crazy new ones nor country based TLDs. Zero upsell, zero scammy lockins so far.

iwantmyname.com, I think originally because I wanted to register my name, and they got me with their domain name. It's been straightforward enough with good service and no upsells that I've since registered other domains with them. I think they're based on Germany, which may be a positive for some folks here.

Well, I'll admit I didn't do a ton of research on it, but I moved all my domain names to "NameCheap.com" a few years ago and I've been happy with their services. They had a pretty sweet deal to move them over too.

I'd been using "Verio" for probably 15 years before and the last 5 of them were just awful. I should've never waited as long as I did to ditch them.