DNS is taken care by Cloudflare (this can also be by AWS Route53).
Emails, hosts, and others can be with Google, Proton, Fastmail, AWS, et al.
DirectNIC. Based on Louisiana. Very professional. Been around forever.
Not the cheapest registrar, which is a feature, not a bug.
If your registrar is competing based on nothing but cost, it has to make up the money by cutting elsewhere.
I have heard good things about Cloudflare as a registrar. In-fact, I suggest them to a friend who uses it. However, I user Cloudflare for DNS for most of my domains. SO, I won't move the domains registration to them.
I have heard (know two founders) and I had experienced that domain grabbing-on-search with Godaddy! I won't go anywhere near them.