Using INWX for my .de and .com domain
Cloudflare as my DNS server.
Works great. And INWX is reasonable with their fees.
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Thank you all so much for your answers, I have a few more options to go through now!
Create a cloud flare accounts and change the name servers at you current registrars to what cloudflare gives you when you try to migrate. Its best practice to split up registrar and DNS anyway. then create an API token so your reverse proxy can build records and certbot a new cert.
Your registrar should let you specify who is hosting the DNS records. Pick any host compatible with your client. Personally I use Namecheap and haven't had to touch it in years.
Not sure if https://www.inwx.de/en ticks all your boxes but it handles .at (Renewal: €15.47 / 1 Year) is located in the EU (Germany) and maybe worth a look. I have all my domains there, works flawlessly.
How are you handling the WHOIS entries ant INWX? Are you paying for the privacy extension? I am looking for another registrar EU based who offers some sort of free whois privacy or respecting the GDPR and not publishing my data online.
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ in the UK likely ticks almost all your boxes.
Personally I use Porkbun but they don't support .at domains by the look of it.
I can vouch for Mythic Beasts
OVH have both an API that use and will register a .at domain
Ovh should work.
I moved to infomaniak because registering domains come with a free mailbox (or at least they used to - IDK if it's still like this).
It works fine with lego (as should any other supported one).
I don't have a registrar to recommend, but for the nameservers (which would already solve your problem) I had a good experience in the past with Hurricane Electric (dns.he.net). AFAIK the only requirement from your list it doesn't satisfy is being European (not 100% sure about MFA and scoped tokens).