Gandi.net doesn't charge extra and also has reasonable prices.

Google domains offers it for free and as standard.

I wouldn't say free. I would say it's included in the $12/year price of .com registration. I suspect that price is competitive with registrars that have a base price that doesn't include WHOIS privacy and sell privacy as an add-on, though I haven't shopped around in a while. All my domains are registered with Google Domains.

I just enter phone/address information for one of those whois privacy proxies without bothering to pay for them. What's the point of paying? The only thing real on my domain registrations is a gmail contact - the rest doesn't matter.

Back a few years ago, NomiNet used to post you a certificate proving ownership every time you registered a .co.uk domain. I recently found a couple when moving house.

I have some domains in OVH, they do not charge for privacy. Generally you can check out https://tld-list.com/tld/com for the list of providers which offer free whois privacy for a given domain.

Be careful with OVH, they put your details in Admin-C/Tech-C, same effect as not using their service at all. At least that was my experience a few months back, I then switched to namecheap to avoid that.

You could just lie. Only the contact email really matters, and those are anonymously-routable already.

In practice, this will usually work, but it does violate ICANN rules. If this ever gets enforced, likely due to a disgruntled party making a complaint, it could backfire.

Yep, you could lose the domain. It would be a big risk to take if there's any chance someone wanted to go after the domain.

I shifted my entire domain portfolio from Bulkregister.com to Uniregistry for this issue. Bulk charges $3 per domain per year and I saved thousands a year moving to Uniregisry.

NameSilo doesn't - but they were also recently acquired so there's no guarantee if the new owners will let things be the same or change it.

DreamHost doesn't charge for WHOIS privacy, and they have competitive domain prices.

I would 2nd Gandi.net. No additional fee for their who is privacy option.

iwantmyname.com doesn't charge for whois privacy

i get it free from moniker

namesilo

It's included on Hover as well.

That's what I meant with "I know Hover doesn't have a separate Whois privacy entry price, but the base price at Hover seems to be about the price of a domain + Whois privacy at other registrars".