Haiii, I am thinking about aquiring a domain Name. What’s the best privacy Friendly Registry, with fairly cheap pricing. Thx :3
Run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.
njal.la, but not cheap
Alibaba, They’re so far away and big that no one can touch them.
I found .UK and .US domains cheap, but .UK was more private as far as whois goes.
Namecheap will remove your domain if you have anti-zionist content after the recently appointed CEO compared Palestinian journalists to ISIS.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/03/namecheap-gaza/
Shit, I just got a domain name from there a month ago. Is there a way to transfer it elsewhere or something? I didn’t even realize they could do that :(
I am not hosting anything like that on my domain (it is just a matrix and recipe browser), but I’d rather not support them…
Pure, literal garbage.
Namecheap has got to be one of the worst possible recommendations for any kind of domain hosting.
Cheap and good: Cloudflare (they sell domains at cost, you won’t find anywhere cheaper unless they’re loss-leading) Currently the best choice, imo. API is useful for DNS01 Letsencrypt certs, with plugins for lots of software. Only downside is you can’t use a third party nameserver without paying extra, but I’ve never found that necessary.
Ok and good: I’ve been pleased with Gandi and Joker in the past. Both are also not-US based, if that’s important to you.
Privacy: Not sure what’s exposed with a domain registrar. You have to give an owner’s detail for any domain, but that’s hidden from public whois now.
If you mean untraceable - well, I dunno. You don’t need to prove that identity for anything other that .gov type domains, afaik, so I guess disposable email (but not that disposable, as lose that and you lose the domain) and pay by crypto.
Shitlist: GoDaddy for all the well published reasons. Had some problems with Fastnet in the past too. In both cases I was able to transfer domains away successfully.
(Experience: Personal. I’ve been registering, transferring and working with domains for over 20 years. Not full time, nor at huge scale.)
