[BALUG-Admin] So, joker.com, then?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli via BALUG-Admin (balug-admin@lists.balug.org):

> Uhm, no, I wouldn't put Joker.com at the top of the list.
> In fact I'd rank 'em below competent.
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=system:registrars#jokercom

_Cannot_ opt out of private registration?  Deal-breaker for me.
Not acceptable.  (But wait...)  I see this was officially proclaimed in
2019, as described here -- and revealed by... me.
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/013971.html

Back in 2019, that policy was proclaimed on
https://joker.com/index.joker#gdpr , but, not a shocker, that URL no
longer reveals fsck-all.  And their FAQs are useless on this matter.

_2018_ page:
https://www.ote.joker.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=5&id=476&artlang=en

Some of their documentation suggests that the price list will reveal
domain pricing with vs. without WHOIS privacy.  The current price list
is unrevealing (https://joker.com/domain/prices), except, e.g., for
.com, it _does_ suggest that the Registrant can opt either for WHOIS
privacy or not.

I was irked by, and aware of, the "unable to repoint glue records" 
annoyance, but would have been willing to live with that -- if it's
still the same, long decades after I ceased using their services.

Unfortunately, none of the others you catalogue appear to appeal at all,
with the possible exception fo the ex-Google Domains Squarespace
registrar -- which you portray as as question mark.