Sigh. So Gandi (used to be the best registrar) has gone the same way as Webfaction (used to be the best host). Any suggestions?
(Feel free to disagree with my value judgements, but it is a discussion which I think we should have, given that Opalstack is not itself a registrar.)
P.S. an important part of Gandi's previous excellence was that it offered a free mailbox to anyone who registered a domain. This was really useful as an air-gapped recovery mechanism in case of account problems elsewhere.