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I use gandi.net and am very happy.

The only con is that they are based in France, so if you are in the United States, and use a credit card, you could get declined transactions due to fraud protection.

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Being based in France could a plus for some. I had a friend whose website was getting shut down by GoDaddy with each DMCA report without bothering to contact him or validating the claim, so, he moved to Gandi and he's been super happy. I do have pretty active accounts with both Gandi and GoDaddy and have to admit that GoDaddy is better - it lets you organize domains in folders, has the ability to do mass operations based on folder structure, allows you to create and assign WHOIS profiles easily. The big issue is that they don't have an API and are not planning to have open anytime soon. I really miss GoDaddy having tags in addition to folders, and the API, of course, but nobody can beat their pricing (when you have the Discount Domain Club). In addition, if you have a lot of domains, they assign you an Account Executive, who can do a lot of things for you for free.

Do you have a "coporate account" with them? I wanted to register a country specific domain (Irish) and noticed that a) I need to sign up for their "corporate services" which presumably is a paid subscription and b) their pricing for .ie domains was €75/year compared to ~€20/year elsewhere

I do not. I only have a regular account I guess since I don't pay them any additional fees. Some country code TLD's have made me fill out extra registration forms however.

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