Privacy Guides
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I'll second porkbun. They are great.
If not porkbun then name cheap.
If not either of those anyone but godaddy.
Don't forget to run the DEJIGAMAFLIPPER on your domain after purchase. Very important.
So I hear the "anyone but godaddy" thing a lot, however I have struggled to find anyone that has the same features as they do. For example:
The email and contact proxy seems to be specific to certain TLDs but for the one I happen to use GD supports it.
I'd love to move to something else if for no other reason than the website is annoying, but every time I look the other options are worse.
If nothing else, GoDaddy is expensive as f**k. I was quoted ~$150/yr to host a site + purchase a domain. Same service on Namecheap (same SSL and HTTPS and whatnot) costs me ~$25/yr.
Porkbun supports all of this, and it's one of the cheapest I've found
I see the anybody but GoDaddy thing a lot too. The controversies page on Wikipedia does a decent job at pointing out some of the reasons people dislike them.
Looking at feature set though, I'm in the same boat as you. Part of it is me being lazy though. When my registrations come up for renewal in a few years I'll take a serious look at porkbun.
i did end up going back to namecheap, where i already had an account. i'm trying not to create new relationships with businesses that heavily use recaptcha, and with porkbun it's part of the login process