Namecheap

Excellent DNS service with an excellent quality/price ratio. Godaddy's DNSSEC is paid monthly and is more expensive. The HostGator doesn't even have it. In Namecheap, the basic DNS plan already has DNSSEC and the paid DNS service is more complete and cheaper. They also accept bitcoin, this is very good! In addition, they even protect your personal data in the whois search for one year free of charge.

One of the best client services I've ever had. Keep it up!

Wanted to really enjoy Namecheap and their product. I've owned domain's with GoDaddy for years and have never had any particular issue beyond it being expensive.

Started my move towards Privacy online in the recent months and decided I wanted to get away from GoDaddy and the likes. Heard/Read many good things among the Privacy oriented about Namecheap. Provided the same credentials during sign-up as I did to GoDaddy, only to have the account suspended without warning.

Namecheap simply prevents you from logging in, and then directs you to go submit a ticket because you know, there's nothing more user-friendly then forcing customers to come to you to figure out why your account is suspended. During the suspension, you are forced to create a separate login account specifically for submitting that ticket - because yours is suspended and you are locked out.

They then let you wait for over 24 hours before responding to your request for some explanation. Direct you to take a photo of your credit card and provide them with a phone number so that they may "verify", all the while collecting more metadata. The website service they send you to is verification.com, and here you are unable to upload a photo you've scrubbed metadata. Instead they want you to utilize a live camera of some sort - most people would be inclined to use a cell phone no doubt, where they will continue to glean more data regarding you.

Keep in mind, all of this hassle over a $33 3-year domain registration. What an absolute farce.

Note, ICANN policies are fairly strict - keep in mind I've provided the exact same credentials with another provider without issue and satisfied ICANN.

I Would strongly recommend to avoid this service. Like many other things these days, the focus on privacy and security is actually marketing.

Great domain registrar, cool design, clean UI, nice tool, nice prices.

as @AnthonyV said
they are cheap and concern about your privacy but...

1. almost any modification through API mess with your ZONE

2. too often I have to chat with their support because their web interface to manage the zone just don't respond.

3. we, few user, ask since more than 2 years to support 2048k DKIM, which is now a standard, and they just won't do it. (https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/720940172196581376)

4. their DynDNS system is old and works ok, if you just do it for one domain with a small amount of subdomain.

[Edited by jodumont, September 27]

For low cost hosting the uptime is decent enough and prices are fair. The few times I've contacted support they've been helpful and responded in a reasonable timeframe.

Don't use if your are running a business and you intend to count on things continuing to work.

They are cheap and fast and very concerned about security which is good.

But they have no qualms about making significant server changes and breaking applications in the process. They do this without warning, and sometimes without any option of going back.

I have had multiple experiences with them disabling or breaking scripts via Mod_Security or changing server settings with the result that functionality I counted on for my business just failed permanently and without warning.