Hi! Thinking about registering a new domain for homelab setup. Not quite sure which registrar to go with but have heard good things about Porkbun here on lemmy. But, do people fill in their actual real name, and details for these sorta things? Geuninly curious, don’t want to end up on bad terms with a company. But on the other hand im just going to use this for my homelab and dont see the “need” to give away my details for this sorta thing.
Let me know how you guys do it :)
i do. i use https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ as their promise is ‘by subpoena only’ on personal info.
its actually a smaller outfit run by a bunch of linux geeks… you pay for what you actually use. been my goto for more than 15 years
Huh, I tried to use their price estimator for my use case but it comes out the same for cloudflare pages + function and their goodies (D1, R2, DO, etc.) usage (around $5). But it is neat for in-between usage that is smaller than what cloudflare offers.
oh, i dont use them to host anything except DNS. OP asked about registrars.
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Though on the other hand giving fake info will make you look more unique and trackable.
will it if it’s not obvious? how?
Though on the other hand giving fake info will make you look more unique and trackable.
will it if it’s not obvious? how?
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Yeah, but quite a few of them DO accept crypto - then it’s fine I guess?
If you care about keeping your domain enough that you don’t want there to be an excuse for someone to take it from you, then you use your real info, and choose a registrar that only exposes a proxy contact in your WHOIS entry.
If you don’t care about losing your domain, then you can use fake contact info.
.ch domains come with domain privacy by default. Since whois entries don’t include personal information. Also whois request are only doable through the official registry and only reveal the registrar and technical information and not personal ones.
Yes, don’t want my domain to be removed/suspended.
The info is hidden from the public since every registrar should include domain privacy for free.
Can also use something like Njalla where they register and hold the domain for you and give you access to it.
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My domain is my name so I am not too worried about that, but for the address I use a PO Box and the domain registrars domain privacy service to hide the details.
Strong no.
I use the name Johnny Incognito on everything I register, has not been a problem with namecheap. If you want to follow the rules then you should use your real name but its not like they are gonna ask to see ID or care at all unless you have something else going on to draw attention to it.
