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> Because at Namecheap, we care about your privacy protection.

Only when we can stop profiting from selling privacy services because of a new law that came into effect a few days ago.

I'd have believed them if they did this 2 years ago once GDPR was announced. Already moved my domains from namecheap since they are not the cheapest and didn't offer free whois until now.

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The GDPR wouldn't limit the sale of privacy services to 90+% of the world.

Mind to share what you choose to use?

NameSilo is a couple dollars cheaper than Namecheap and include free privacy as well (https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php).

I only read good things about them here on HN, but their website design put me off. It looks like them haven't updated it for a decade.

On the "Create new account" page, their captcha is just a table with black/white background colors to create the letters. Never seem something like that before, and it can be trivially bypassed.

I think my list is more user friendly: https://projects.dav.one/namesilo/domains/

I created it for myself, but feel free to use.

Switched from Namecheap to Namesilo a few years ago for free privacy, I've had no problems with it.

What's the catch though? Domain registration is a pretty competitive business. How come NameSilo can to be so much cheaper?

Pretty simple I think. They just make less profit per domain.

Yup, happy switcher from Namecheap to NameSilo for a while now.

I moved to NameSilo as well few years ago.

I second NameSilo.

Ovh. They also always had this service for free.

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