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

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

This is useful. I'm registered at GoDaddy, but am looking at moving my hosting to Laughing Squid at some point for the exact same reason. I may try and shift registrar at some point, too. Might be something LS can do for me...

[gement.livejournal.com]

It looks like Laughing Squid isn't a registrar, but all the registrars listed above will happily point to Laughing Squid for your hosting.