LJ Braintrust: Domain registrar?

[gement]

Godaddy makes my skin crawl. Can anyone suggest a less slimy company that allows you to redirect/choose your own nameservers? Dreamhost has been recommended to me, but they lock you into using their nameservers (or at least did almost two years ago when I last investigated this.)

My server-fu is weak. Please advise.

Edited to add: I've gone with Dynadot, but if anyone else is looking for similar information, DirectNIC and BareMetal (a small Canadian independent) were also recommended.

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[tithonium.livejournal.com]

I've switched everything but the .at domains to dynadot. They're not the absolute cheapest, but they're pretty cheap, have a decent management interface - unlike gd's massively over-engineered unusable mess - and stay out of the way.

[gement.livejournal.com]

We have a winner. There's a refer-a-friend field on my signup sheet. Do you have an identifier I should put in there?

[gement.livejournal.com]

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