How to choose and trust a domain registrar? Recommendations?

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This seems like a very messy area, with several related posts here but nothing solid. I don’t know why but they all seem kind of dodgy.

Besides offering WHOIS redaction, the most important thing for me is that I can trust the company won’t accidentally leak my personal information, or perhaps intentionally share it, sell it, or be hacked.

I think an EU based company would be ideal because of GDPR. And ideally something which isn’t “Big Tech” (Cloudflare?).

I was almost sold on Trustname which has been recommended a lot here for being a privacy-focused registrar, until I realized it was the same person repeatedly mentioning it here and who is likely affiliated.

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I think TrustName is a honeypot otherwise look into other recommendations.

Personally I use orange website mostly because it’s in Iceland and it doesn’t have an affiliate program

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I’m not too sure what’s up with the links you attached… it is more of that “Trustname is bulletproof” nonsense.

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That trustname is shady af, loads of phishing domain registered there. They got first breach notice from icann back in june ICANN sends breach notice to TrustName - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News and now just got final nail in the coffin, icann yanked their accreditation https://www.icann.org/uploads/compliance_notice/attachment/1367/hedlund-to-nestsiarovich-27aug26.pdf effective 15 days from now.

Searching this forum, its just 1 person repeatedly mentioning that registrar so highly likely a shill thats affiliated with them. Be careful out there with those so-called “bulletproof” anything.

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@Uzbeki_Vulture, there are a handful of accounts who are always posting these same spammy links to the same content about Trustname. I highly recommend against them. Evidence:

Edit: I didn’t see your link to my reply about them. :joy:

I highly recommend 1984. They’re ethical, reasonably priced, and their product is great. They’re also in Iceland, so they’re out of jurisdiction from the eyes.