I've been using Namecheap for personal domains for around 10 years now. Since a few years back, privacy guard is included in the domain price (at least for .com domains) so your name, address, ... won't appear directly on whois queries.

As it's just one domain, (longterm) pricewise I don't think there'll be a big difference with any of them. 1 or 2 € per year, maybe. It'll be more important to check longterm price of the domain (.com / .io / ...), as you'll probably find some offer for the first year.

FWIW, namecheap publishes a recurrent offer around 10th October (apart from some random offers every once in a while) If you go with them, you can register for one year and renew the domain for a longer period when you find an offer.

I've been using namecheap for more than ten years now, and I have no complaints. Everything just works, at least as far as my usage goes, and the pricing feels very reasonable.

I've used namecheap for years for my personal domain. It was the one I liked best back when I brought the domain.

That was like ten years ago now and cloudflair wasn't a thing then iirc.

I've been using cloudflare for domain and DNS for about 2 years, no complaints so far

I like NameCheap to buy domains but usually use Cloudflare for DNS records

I've found Cloudflare is cheaper than Google Domains, and allows for more flexibility of setups. A $12 domain on google can be $9 or less on Cloudflare. (this is a per-year price. So the cheaper you get the domain, will exponentially be cheaper over 10+ years)

Cloudflare is also a layer of protection to your pihole. You shouldn't run in to that many issues by buying a domain but I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Just buying a domain is like buying a username, it doesn't do much until you point it somewhere. So if you're pointing it to your pi-hole to host something then I'd look in to hosting services to save yourself a bit of a security issue.

What is it you're trying to do?

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