Where’s the perfect domain registrar?

Why is there no pure domain registrar?

For email, there’s Purelymail, which I’ve been using for quite some time and actually like a lot because it offers unlimited email hosting, is easy to use, reliable and doesn’t annoy me.

But for domains, there is no such service.

I recently moved some domains to Spaceship.com, and I like their low prices, but since they sell some domains cheaper than Cloudflare and Cloudflare says that they sell domains at the wholesale price. I also suspect that Spaceship is just selling the domains so that people will use their other products, or just to gain some market share after their launch.

But I don’t want to buy shared hosting, I also don’t want to use their email service, and I would rather not be locked into a DNS provider like Cloudflare when registering domains there.

Why is there no registrar that has a simple business model like this:

Sell domains at wholesale price + card transaction fees + a small margin like 1 dollar or so per year and that’s it?

A provider that focuses solely on providing domains at low cost and all the necessary features like setting DNSSEC records.

Or is there one, and I just haven’t found it yet?

Maybe the problem is me! 😄 Why am I such a perfectionist and just can’t ignore the registrars other offerings and be happy with what I have? Besides, I only have a few domains for which I currently pay about 15 € per month, so I have already wasted a lot more time and energy on this research than is worth the money I could save…

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