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by beachwood23 2039 days ago
What registrar would you recommend instead?
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EasyDNS.

It's been around since 1998 and is a founder-owned company, and the founder wrote the book on managing mission-critical domains:

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Mission-Critical-Demystifyin...

And they do offer registry lock (on a limited number of TLD's.)

Nearlyfreespeech is more of a host than a registrar, but I feel they generally have really good practices and procedures areound security. I certainly trust them more than Godaddy. That said, they don't support a lot of .wacky suffixes other registrars might.
Namecheap and Porkbun are pretty good.

Namecheap is bigger, so it's possible to get support people that aren't amazing. Porkbun is pretty small and I feel like there's less room for underperforming support staff when you have less than 10 of them.

Porkbun has an extra "domain password protection" option where you can require and extra password retrieving an auth code for domain transfer. I'm not sure how much use that is though. Once someone is into the account to the point they can change NS, the real world impact is similar to having the domain transferred away (and recovered).

namecheap has actually been a really good registrar, contrary to what the name suggests.
Instead of compromizing cryptocurrency services, they support paying for their services in cryptocurrency. That's arguably a better strategy for engaging with the target audience of crypto enthusiasts ;)
I'm not very confident about Namecheap, given how long it took them to add 2FA. It seems to me that if they cared about security they wouldn't have waited literally years to do it.
Cloudlfare does domains at cost, and I use them for every TLD they support.

I've had great experience with porkbun, and no major complaints with namecheap.

gandi.net has always been outstanding.
Second for gandi - I had very good experience with them, although prices are a bit higher than namecheap or porkbun.
Cloudflare.