GoDaddy, Namecheap, Hover?

[Floris]

First of all: Never register your domain through the hosting provider. They are there for hosting, don't waste your money on giving them the power to control your domain. It's yours. In a dispute and with a bit of bad luck they remain the register on it, or the tech admin, and move it, lock it, lose it. It's just not worth it. Go with a registrar and not a shitty reseller.

Examples are Namecheap and Hover, go with them. They're easy, affordable, and give you control over the domain, dns, whois protection, etc.

Don't go with GoDaddy: they're fucking assholes. You will be regretting it in the long run.

Any other company you would want to add to this list?

 

[SpaceKitteh24]

Namecheap is my default. I have heard such bad things about GoDaddy that I never bothered with them. I think my first site was on GatorHost but I switched in a year. I would much rather get the domain and focus on hosting myself. I can't think of any off the topic of my head I would recommend outside of Namecheap since that is all I use these days. I will post again if one comes to mind!

 

[EagleEye]

Namecheap is great, GoDaddy's support is horrible.

 

[Nix]

Namecheap

 

[Floris]

I've used Hover in the past, and I think I still have a few domains with them, GoDaddy I've blacklisted, what a fucking terrible service provider that is. Namecheap has been the most interesting so far, but I am afraid once I see them scaling their services that I am not super comfortable with them anymore either.

namecheap though, is the recommended one here.