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So as a domain owner you are completely at the mercy of your registrar?

What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe?

>>TekMol+(OP)
For private or business use?

Privately I’m pretty happy with Namecheap, they never failed to provide the support I needed in a friendly and precise manner. For business purposes with high value domains MarkMonitor seems to be the industry leader.

>>keving+da
Both seem to be US companies. What levarage do you have over them if they screw you? I would say none. Suing a company overseas is pretty much impossible.

>>TekMol+(OP)
> What is considered a reliable registrar in Europe?

I heard a lot of good things about German INWX[1], even though French Gandi[2] is more popular and is the registrar of ycombinator.com (and was the registrar of reddit.com until recently, before they moved to MarkMonitor).

[1] https://www.inwx.de/en

[2] https://www.gandi.net/en

>>TekMol+xb
Ah I see, beg your pardon, I misunderstood your question. If you’re looking for domain registrars located in Europe I can only suggest one as I don’t have much experience dealing with others. Epag [1] has always been nice to deal with.

[1] - https://www.epag.de/en/

>>krn+Ac
I can highly recommend INWX. What I like about them is that the service they provide is domains only (I don't consider their web hosting offers [1] seriously). Thus no conflict of interest and resources are focused on a good domain service.

[1] https://www.inwx.de/en/hosting

>>keving+da
I love namecheap - customer for over 10 years - but a recent incident has me rethinking my patronage. We recently received a "lawyer DDOS" - where a law firm sent multiple letters claiming /alleged/ trademark infringement. Without proof of identity, proof of subpoena, judge's order - whatever - namecheap rolled over on their WHOIS protection. There was no dialog, no email from legal, nothing.

I was dismayed to see that someone can literally send one email, get your personal info, and impact your company.

Very disappointed in namecheap.

>>kweks+no
I am also on namecheap and this freaks me out. can you provide more info?

>>automa+4u
Read some of my comments, they did the same to me.

>>automa+4u
Read my comments too. Namecheap definitely is just as bad.