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 ago
Namesilo and Namecheap are good registrars. I suggest Namecheap for hosting.
- cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 11•8 months ago
If 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 ago
Do 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 ago
What’s terrible about their hosting?
- cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
I’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 ago
Help 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 ago
I’ve recently bought
.dev
on porkbun - jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English6•8 months ago
cloudflare for their excellent security, domain lockdown, and use of hardware security keys.
- QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 5•8 months ago
On 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 ago
I 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 ago
Nice, did you have to give them any personal info?
- fadelkon ( @fadelkon@info.prou.be ) 6•8 months ago
The 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 ago
Thanks, that’s even better than I thought honestly
- Efwis ( @Efwis@lemmy.zip ) English3•8 months ago
One 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 ago
FlokiNET 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 ago
No expirience, but I’ve heard porkbun.com is nice