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.

Comments

[cow.livejournal.com]

Looks like you've already made a choice, but in the event this comes up for anyone else: I use BareMetal, who are based in Victoria; small, local-owned, friendly, and they donate 50c of your registration to charity (you get a choice from a dropdown). (And they do .ca names, which a lot of places don't. Which is less relevant to a lot of other people, but hey.)

[gement.livejournal.com]

Thanks!