I like namecheap as the like similarly-large-scale competitor. There's also https://porkbun.com/ and https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ which are both awesome.

+1 for nearlyfreespeech for privacy, registrar and DNS hosting, although for one of my domains I'm using cloudflare for DNS.

I am also very happy with namecheap. Also https://www.gandi.net/en is nice for some tlds that does not exist on namecheap.

NFS is great. Also gandi.net is pretty no-bullshit and works great.

I've been very pleased with Google Domains.

They probably won't be the cheapest (most .com's are $12 a year), but they don't try to upsell much if at all, the pricing is really consistent and there are no surprises (no bullshit like the first year is $1 and the next year is $40 unless you remember to go do something), and their management UI is really nice.

I only have about 6 domains with them, so keep that in mind, but I've been extremely happy with the whole thing.

I'm also, like, 90% sure that when you are using your custom domain on Google, as a business user, the "recover my email via phone number" option goes away, because you are your own "administrator" and if your "users" lose their password they just have to go to you.

(Which closes that gaping hole in your email security.)

I'm not using the "Google Apps" part of their services, i'm just using their "domains" offering at domains.google.com

They can be the same thing if you want, but they don't have to be. You can use an externally hosted domain with google apps, and you can use Google domains without "google apps" (like I do).

Also, as of somewhat recently, I believe you can disable "recover by phone" as an option if you want for any google account.

I still use google domains, but am slightly irked by the fact that they recently redesigned their UI for no apparent reason--it's much worse now.

Where are you from that you only have access to those few hosters? I think there are hundreds of hosters in Germany, at least somewhat like a dozen big ones which all do a pretty good job. Wonder why everybody seems to stick to GoDaddy, also in the tech scene.

For Germany, just for reference, there is Webhostlist [0], which gives me over 400 different hosting packages (obviously not 400 hosters) available with at least one domain and an included SSL certificate. Starting at 0.38 € per month (.de domain included) with a one-time setup of 0.99 €.

[0]: https://www.webhostlist.de

I use gandi and I love it. They have 2FA, good management systems, friendly support, etc.

I interviewed at GoDaddy - really weird place. I declined their offer.

Mind to extend your comment?

AWS. Competes on price, and you have full control of DNS rules via the management console.

Have you considered Cloudflare? They also provide domain registration services [1] in addition to DNS hosting.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/products/registrar/

The (current, I've been told this is being worked on) problem with cloudflare's registrar is you MUST use their DNS if you buy a domain through them. Great if you already do and never intend to switch, useless if you don't or might need/want to switch in the future.

Godaddy kept messing with my fees, I dropped them once I found a suitable alternative.

gandi. really well-designed + clear interface.

I've never had issues with iwantmyname.

Domain registration: Gandi.net

DNS: CloudFlare