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After some positive research, I just purchased two domains from Hover. This is unacceptable however and I will be moving them away.

What registrar would anyone say is the most security focused and/or government resistant?

Maybe it should be a 2011 AskHN?

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I can't vouch for "security focused" - but Gandi.net have so far never let me down. They're based in France, so not susceptible to US law (dependent on the TLD you use of course) and have a huge variety of TLDs.

Can't recommend Gandi enough, they do exactly what they say on the tin - "no bullshit".

Gandi is pretty awesome, but just be aware that your credit card company might freeze your card the first time you buy from them (apparently buying domain names in other countries is a fraud trigger) :D

Never had that problem with Gandi but buying digital goods from Facebook froze my card. Apparently they were a hive for credit card thief testing at that point in time because of the low value of virtual gifts (1 US cent?).

This happened to me, too (twice!), but I now use PayPal instead of my credit card and my bank no longer freezes my account.

Gandi is super awesome ! One quick thing though: since last year they have a US subsidiary (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi), which might or might not make them more susceptible to US law.

Gandi is great and resilient. I know from personal communication with them that the Yes Men recommend using their domain services (they also favor joker.com, which is based in Germany -- I've had a good experience there as well, although Joker doesn't offer VPS services like Gandi).

I've had other positive experiences with Gandi.net: They hooked one of their VPS servers up with a BGP feed so I could announce my AS there for testing a new Anycast service.

Gandi also have excellent free DNS hosting services. With an excellent control panel including grouping and raw BIND config.

Name.com is great. They don't try to obfuscate the UI to make it more user friendly. Straight access to the DNS records, simple clean design. Here's an old link to a comment I had discussing them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766590

That very thread convinced me to switch to name.com six months ago. They're great.

Switched to Name.com around that time too. The website stripped special characters from my password during registration and I couldn't understand why it wouldn't let me log in since the limitation wasn't mentioned anywhere. Had to confirm with customer support. Take that as you will.

But I like how they send you an email on every failed auth attempt.

I absolutely love NearlyFreeSpeech.net for domain registration (and also cheap hosting).

I wouldn't say they're security focused, but they allow you to be totally anonymous in your registration, and have a policy of hosting anything that isn't illegal.

Here's a thread discussing DNS registrars from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766439

007names.com is doing good here

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