I’m currently on the lookout for privacy-respecting domain registrars. What are you guys using and why?
Chose Namecheap just for domain and later ionos and their mail service for my 2nd.
Namecheap for registrar and Cloudflare for the name servers. Always keep those services separated so if one dies, you can still get into the other service to fix it.
Namecheap because they’ve lived up to their name. The DNS for my domains is all on Cloudflare though as I can automate my letsencrypt renewal that way that I couldn’t on plain old namecheap.
Some European ones because the domains have European TLDs.
.eufor example is only available by EU registrars IINM. But also, I do my best to keep the money local where I can.I don’t think that’s true anymore. I moved my .eu to porkbun (which is an American company) and it works. Also, I just tried registering a new .eu domain with them and it works - and they have very good prices! (I’m not affiliated with them)
The first registrar I used was DomainSite, around 20 years ago. They still exist but are called Name.com now. They’re a pretty good registrar.
I have most of my domains at Porkbun these days. They’re great too, and a bit cheaper.
In terms or privacy-respecting, most registrars will mask your WHOIS info for free, to comply with laws like GDPR. Never pay for “WHOIS privacy”.
