I more or less agree with you.

Do you know of an alternative service, which is easy to use, allows a private whois entry, but gives you the ownership of the domain?

Before njalla, I tried domain.com and I couldn’t get the domain in 2 days after ordering it, so I cancelled. (they wrote an email saying that they are reviewing my order and will get back to me in 24h, which they didn’t).

I just want to pay and get a domain without the hoops and without giving them my personal address and phone number.