Porkbun

Namecheap has been fine for me so far. Avoid godaddy.

I use namecheap – I got my two most recent domains for less than $8 apiece – but I hear good things about Google domains as well.

My main domain registrar is namecheap and my second for personal email is ionos. No issues thus far.

I just used google, but you can use pretty much any big service (they are all priced similarly) if you are worried about scamminess. I also didn’t feel like being harassed for “website builders” or the other crap smaller providers try to sell.

I have one (including hosting) at a local German provider and one (dynamic DNS based forwarding to my homelab) at another German provider.

Both are in the market for 20+ years and neither of them had any controversies or major issues.

I personally do all my hosting with tsohost.

Haven’t done it since a very long time ago so probably there are better players out there now, but Gandi or GoDaddy maybe? I’d lookup their reviews (especially the negative ones) on Trustpilot to see all the gotchas.

I’ve been on namecheap for a long time. They have a sale going on now. But they are really good, hardly ever a problem and if there is, their customer service is stellar.

joker.com is pretty good (despite the shady name).

Edit: purely dns registrars AFAIK, no hosting.

Gandi

Name.com is great! They’re local to my area and have always been fantastic to deal with. I’ve used godaddy, Google, name cheap and wouldn’t recommend any of them

European folks try EUKhost. Been good for me the last few years.

Namecheap and Namesilo are both good.

Godaddy is the big one that I’ve heard of.

Disclaimer: I’ve never registered or managed a domain. I just remember their commercials from back in the day.