(Domains) Namecheap vs Dreamhost (or else) what's best?

First post, hope this is the right place for this question.

I'm about to build my first website and I was looking for domain providers.
Namecheap and Dreamhost are the ones I found to be fitting best for me.

Criteria was:
- private domain registration/whois protection
- roughly $10 a year (including the privacy part)


I'm going with byet.host for hosting, which is free. Also offers a website builder, which I consider using. (I'd get better hosting when (or if) traffic comes in.)

I don't yet fully understand everything about the matter, so I'm kinda lost, now that I need to make my decision.

Are there any (major) downsides to either one of these providers?
Are there other providers that meet my criteria and are also known to be good?
What else do I need to think of? (I'll sell digital goods (audio) from the site, if that matters.)
Any features I need to look out for? (Not planning on really coding anything myself.)
What would be your criteria when looking for domain providers?

I just don't wanna be stuck with a bad provider or have to pay extra for moving my domain to another one.

Any advice, tips, help is highly appreciated!

Namecheap only has free privacy for 1 year. If you need free privacy for life, check out internet.bs and namesilo. Also, their prices for a TLD are less than $10 and you won't have any problems.

THUNDERELVI said:

Namecheap only has free privacy for 1 year. If you need free privacy for life, check out internet.bs and namesilo. Also, their prices for a TLD are less than $10 and you won't have any problems.

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Thanks, that was helpful!
I know Namecheap only offers free privacy for the first year, but after that it's like $2,50 a year, which adds up to around $11.

Out of Internet.bs and Namesilo, which one would you recommend over the other?

As a domain registrar definitely go with NameCheap.

I use namecheap, namesilo, namebright. All of them offer whois protection.

I like namecheap too and live chat support is fast and effective

Namecheap is best free privacy for a year.

hamsun said:

Thanks, that was helpful!
I know Namecheap only offers free privacy for the first year, but after that it's like $2,50 a year, which adds up to around $11.

Out of Internet.bs and Namesilo, which one would you recommend over the other?

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Yes, but that adds up pretty quick if you have hundreds of domains that you want free privacy for. For those domains, I mostly use the 2 websites I mentioned. But if privacy really isn't that much of an issue, go with Namecheap - they are a good company as well and never had any problems with them.

They are both OK companies, never had any issues with either of them. Only once I waited way longer than normal for DNS to be updated with internet.bs, but wouldn't really make that a big deal, because sometimes it happens. Also, back in the years, I remember I've read threads in BHW where people would get suspended with internet.bs, because their domains made it to Spamhaus. Never had such problems, but to be honest with you, the only domains that I register with privacy are for PBN-s, so I don't use them for any spam related purposes.