| For DNS, I have been using Gandi (1) for the last yen years or so and have been very happy with them. I originally went with them because they were one of the few registrars that did the .cat TLD. I liked the experience and eventually transferred all of my domains to them. They are a french company. Their slogan is "No Bullshit," (2) and I think they've done a decent job of living up to that. My only frustration has been a situation where I was transferring an existing domain over to them. I wanted to create the zone file ahead of time so that when the transfer happened, there would be an identical zone file ready to go. But they wouldn't allow me to create a zone file for a domain that hadn't transferred over to them yet. Since I'm not doing anything critical with my domains, it was just an annoyance, but that would be a show-stopper for some. As it pertains to billing problems, they allow you to pre-pay a chunk of money to your account. (They take PayPal.) It deducts from that amount when domains renew. That provides a buffer if you need to cancel your credit card. Also, on the occasions that I have created trouble tickets, they have been responded to in a reasonable amount of time with helpful information. (1) https://www.gandi.net (2) https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit For web hosting, I used Bluehost for many years and because extremely dissatisfied with them. I switched to Siteground.com about five years ago and have very little to complain about. |
When you buy a domain from them they also include a pair of web/smtp/pop/imap mailboxes you can use, with the ability to create aliases, including wildcard aliases. So I don't need to pay separately for fastmail or some other email service.