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?
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Njalla - you can pay in crypto and they are privacy focused
They have VPSs as well but I don’t know if they are any good price wise
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.
No expirience, but I’ve heard porkbun.com is nice
I would suggest https://njal.la if you value privacy.
Namecheap.com Been using them for years, amazing service.
I 2nd Namecheap
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cloudflare for their excellent security, domain lockdown, and use of hardware security keys.
I’ve always used Hover.com for my domains, if that helps.
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.
Namesilo and Namecheap are good registrars. I suggest Namecheap for hosting.
OVH and CloudFlare’s DNS zone
On that note, anyone has opinions on Njalla? They’re not exactly a registrar themselves, but are they good “proxies”, to maintain more privacy?
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
Nice, did you have to give them any personal info?
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 ;)
Thanks, that’s even better than I thought honestly
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What’s terrible about their hosting?
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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.
Purchase and maintain through Namecheap. Manage DNS records through Cloudflare.
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?
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Superb answer, thank you very much internet stranger!
Porkbun. A lot of people use Cloudflare too
Agreed, Porkbun are great.
+1 to porkbun. At the forefront of security and completed my transfer in minutes when I moved over to them.