Hi, I’m thinking of building a personal website about tech, privacy, open source, etc. Any recommendations about where can I buy domain? .com is taken, but everything else is not. Shuld I take .tech (few dolars more expensive) or something more basic?
Teon ( @Teon@kbin.social ) 15•8 months agoNamesilo and Namecheap are good registrars. I suggest Namecheap for hosting.
cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 11•8 months agoIf you have a country-specific TLD (like .ca for Canada) I would buy that. Otherwise .co is not bad. I find most of the others look spammy.
I’ve used Namecheap for my domains for the past 15 years or so with no issues. Their hosting is terrible though.
noUsernamesLef7 ( @noUsernamesLef7@infosec.pub ) 4•8 months agoDo note though that for privacy purposes, a .us domain is not the best idea. You must be a U.S. citizen or business and registrars may try to verify your identity.
8bitguy ( @8bitguy@kbin.social ) 2•8 months agoWhat’s terrible about their hosting?
cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months agoI’ve had major downtime issues and their support was awful. Performance is also not what I’d expect based on their advertised specs.
Governor Keagan ( @governorkeagan@mastodon.social ) 11•8 months ago@chevy9294 I buy through namecheap and manage them via Cloudflare
- Caaaaarrrrlll ( @Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml ) 9•8 months ago
Purchase and maintain through Namecheap. Manage DNS records through Cloudflare.
neutron ( @neutron@thelemmy.club ) 1•8 months agoHelp me understand something, DNS records are the info (A, AAAA, TXT, etc) that’s modified to configure services like websites and mail servers to a specific domain, right?
starman ( @starman@programming.dev ) English7•8 months agoI’ve recently bought
.dev
on porkbun jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English6•8 months agocloudflare for their excellent security, domain lockdown, and use of hardware security keys.
QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 5•8 months agoOn that note, anyone has opinions on Njalla? They’re not exactly a registrar themselves, but are they good “proxies”, to maintain more privacy?
Goddard Guryon ( @goddard_guryon@sopuli.xyz ) 6•8 months agoI bought mine through them, it’s very slightly more expensive (less expensive than I’d consider a dealbreaker), but I don’t see anything that’d make it worse than other registrars. At the same time, I’m not very familiar with how other domain registrars work, so I’m probably not the best person to give a review
QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 1•8 months agoNice, did you have to give them any personal info?
fadelkon ( @fadelkon@info.prou.be ) 6•8 months agoThe least private way to pay them is via PayPal and they only ask an email or xmpp account. They accept cryptocurrencies if you are into that. They ask nothing for the whois, and they even let you write whatever you want ;)
QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 1•8 months agoThanks, that’s even better than I thought honestly
Efwis ( @Efwis@lemmy.zip ) English3•8 months agoOne thing to look at is you are self-hosting on a local tower turned server.
If you are using a hosting provider, most of them offer domain name registration through their company.
Killercat103 ( @Killercat103@infosec.pub ) 1•8 months agoFlokiNET is what I use. They’re a bit more expensive than most (at least they don’t do the whois bs) but private (also based in Iceland which is a privacy plus) and do accept Monero. They’re not open-source and I do not know any that is but do utilize a good few open-source services. Great support and no bs so far. I’d recommed Njalla if even more privacy is worth the risk of losing your domain lease as it is made in their name.
Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months agoNo expirience, but I’ve heard porkbun.com is nice