[tomxor]

Registrar != nameserver, although they tend to provide one, they also tend to be complete crap IME.

Have a look at your hosting provider (which hopefully is not also your registrar). e.g I use Linode's nameservers which are pretty reliable and have a straightforward UI. All you need to do is point your registrar to a different name server.

[Danieru]

> (which hopefully is not also your registrar)

It is a new era so the old Slashdot wisdom bares repeating: always use a separate registrar from your host.

Your domain ownership is your key. Your host is your service provider. Do not give your key to your service provider.

And new wisdom for the modern era: never use Google for domains or anything you'd care about the next day should their algo ban you.

[mananaysiempre]

Gandi’s bundled DNS seems pretty OK, am I missing anything? Aside from the fact that you have to submit to Gandi’s prices first.

[tomxor]

Bundling DNS with hosting is fine, bundling registration with hosting may be dangerous as per sibling comment.

It doesn't matter too much which side the DNS server is on, although the registrar provided ones tend to be less reliable. The potential for getting into trouble comes when the company that controls your domain ownership also does the hosting, because if they decide to ban you based on content or false flags or whatever, then you may also lose access to your domain name giving you no way to switch to an alternative. If the registrar is separate you can just pick up a different, possibly more fair hosting provider and point your domain at it.

The only guys I trust to do both are nearlyfreespeech.net, and although they aren't going to throw themselves under a bus for you if you are up to obviously illegal stuff, they are principled and do have a lot of experience pushing back against bogus law suits or DMCAs from people trying to exploit the system to get stuff they don't like taken down.

RE Gandi, It's been a long time but I always found their pricing pretty steep. Try out linode, stuff like nameservers are free, their VPS options are not infinitely configurable like gandis, but they are also simpler and way cheaper anyway. I think with Gandi you are paying a high premium for independently customisable resources.