Also a big fan of Namecheap. I too used Gandi at some point, but had an issue which led to a lot of BS. In short, and while not their fault, my credit card exp

Also a big fan of Namecheap. I too used Gandi at some point, but had an issue which led to a lot of BS. In short, and while not their fault, my credit card expired and that caused a few domains (5 or 6 -- all related) to go into quarantine. It was bad timing. While their fee for registering the domains was not that high, getting them out of quarantine would have cost me $50 or 75 per domain. I transferred them out to IWantMyName (a NZ registrar, great service + works really well) _without_ having to pay any quarantine fees and just renewed them there for a year. Gandi refused to waive the quarantine fee saying "it was impossible", which was BS. My credit card had expired two days before. I get that nothing is for free in this world, but if it would've been me in their situation, I would have waived the fee on this one occasion. Years later, I still retain those domains through IWMN.