Namecheap vs Keybase

Domain registration at Namecheap is economical, as their name implies.

Namecheap support is available 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Their support is provided over live text chat, which has a lower barrier to entry, faster connection, and allows you to communicate easier than other the phone.

Because most of the support you need for domains require you to provide text configuration data, live online messaging is the most efficient way to get fast support. It also does not require your constant attention so you don't have to waste time while the operator is researching an answer for you.

Namecheap allows you to set up 198 subdomains for free, and also provides wildcard subdomain catching so you can manage them yourself.

Namecheap allows you to set up 100 virtual email addresses per domain, as well as catch all forwarding all undefined addresses.

When it comes to paying for domains, Namecheap supports all common payment methods. For most people this will be credit cards and Paypal, but Namecheap also has an option to add funds to your account separately.

Namecheap took a stand against SOPA.

Namecheap offers a free and premium (w/ SLA) DNS hosting service for domains registered with other registrars.

It's active for one year.

Namecheap will notify you if your credit card is going to expire, and has a 27 day non-guaranteed grace period for renewal.

Not all registrar care, but when there's an error or something held up the registration they've always at least gave it a shot without prompting. This is done in a proactive way, which isn't seen very often at all. This way the user can be hands off and not need to deal with certain issues as it is taken care of in the background by their support. User is still informed, of course, but can be entirely hands off, or not, but usually they've been efficient and transparent.

Through its NC.ME program, students can get a free 1-year registration on the .me TLD and discounts on .com, .io, and other TLDs along with Namecheap Private Email hosting.

Completely end-to-end encrypted.

Users can publish proofs of identity (PGP public key, Twitter, Facebook, etc).

Free (as in beer) and Open Source Software.

Securely share files.

For sharing files publicly.

250GB of free storage for encrypted files in a team.

Teams can be public with open access or admin-approved access. Opt-in to list public teams.

Teams can be completely private (access granted via admin-approval only, not publicly listed).

Encrypted private or team Git repositories with automatic commit signatures.

Based on blockchain technology.

View/verify the cryptographic signature history of any user.

Encrypt/decrypt any PGP message or file with minimal effort.

Supports public key encryption.

Securely store personal files that only you can access.

Share files securely and privately with other users, a group of users, or a team.

250GB of free storage for privately-encrypted files.

Host a public static website for free. Sites are automatically viewable via keybase.pub if an index.html or index.md exist in your public files.

Teams are E2E encrypted, unlike Slack and other services.