Requirements:
- Domain registration (duh)
- Privacy.
- DNS included.
- Preferably based in the EU, but it’s not a hard requirement
I’ve been using namecheap.
But not sure where they’re based.American though.
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
Switzerland and privacy sadly no longer checks out.
Oh no, what happened in Switzerland?
I’ve been using Elevology for years and absolutely love them. www.elevology.com
I use BlueHost or RackNerd these days
GoDaddy has been a joke of a company for decades now.
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.
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.
What pissed you off about GoDaddy?
Cross post this to !selfhosted@lemmy.world. They will likely have good answers too.
Godaddy is what I say when I throw my Pokéball to summon Incineroar.
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I’ve always used OVH, never had problems with them. They also offer emails for pretty cheap.
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.
Is Cloudflare an option?
Cloudflare is American.
