I’ve been on namecheap for a long time. They have a sale going on now. But they are really good, hardly ever a problem and if there is, their customer service is stellar.
I have had a really good experience with Porkbun. You could also use Cloudflare. But since this is going to be work-related, Cloudflare all of the way.
Google sold their domains (and customers in the process to, I think it was square space)... Definitely just go with namecheap, they support the EFF, have a good website, and reasonable prices
Cloudflare registrar or Porkbun are my goto's. Keep in mind that Cloudflare registrar currently requires you to use their (free) DNS service, you can't change the nameservers yet.
I just used google, but you can use pretty much any big service (they are all priced similarly) if you are worried about scamminess. I also didn’t feel like being harassed for “website builders” or the other crap smaller providers try to sell.
Name.com is great! They’re local to my area and have always been fantastic to deal with. I’ve used godaddy, Google, name cheap and wouldn’t recommend any of them
Haven't done it since a very long time ago so probably there are better players out there now, but Gandi or GoDaddy maybe? I'd lookup their reviews (especially the negative ones) on Trustpilot to see all the gotchas.