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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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No I’ve never seen this. Usually they send you an email to the admin address of the domain with the code.
It depends on the registrar. Some just assume the information you provided is valid.
Infomaniak apparently wants to verify your info, though they also offered verification through credit card when I signed up.
Some tlds require the owner to meet some legal requirements, like affiliation with a specific country. I’ve registered .us domains before without requests for ID but I did pay with a US based card.
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Not normal at all. Go a different (more reputable) registrar.
Cloudflare is my permanent goto.
Supremeserver22.com is a cheap UK registrar
The linked site does not have a valid SSL certificate. To me, that seems pretty sketchy for a registrar. Are you sure the URL is correct?
I’ve been happy with joker (de).
Also a shoutout to joker. Been there for 20(ish?) years. Never an issue.
Old- looking UI which i actually appreciate
You can also very easily register as a reseller for less expensive renewals.
Gandi (gandi.net) is based in France. While I’m currently not using them, I have in the past and had a positive experience.
As a past customer of Gandi, they have been bought out and have been significantly increasing their prices (renewal this year would have cost me twice what I paid a couple years back) while reducing the value proposition of their offering (e-mail is no longer included…)
Ahh, that’s terrible. Thanks for the info!
Since your goal is “to move to a European registrar” Porkbun is not for you.
https://hosting-checker.net/websites/porkbun.com “Webserver Amazon”
Here are some additional options. https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar
https://1984.hosting/product/hosting/
I suggest you reach out to Infomaniak support and ask for an alternative method which is less invasive.
https://www.infomaniak.com/en/help
Try to make Infomaniak a better experience for everyone. Infomaniak claims to be “The Ethical Cloud” but they did not start business as a privacy company and have been learning over time. Help to teach them with one more customer story. Let us know what happens.
If no luck with Infomaniak helping, you can try to contact a different registrar before signing up to confirm they will accept your domain type and ask them what the process will be. Hold them accountable to whatever process they describe if you choose them.
I’ve transferred domains out of porkbun without seeing anything like that. I’ve had to release the domain lock and paste a transfer authorization code from one place to another. That’s how it has worked at other registrars too.
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I mostly use porkbun but also namesilo and a few others.
Hetzner is good but unfortunately they only support a handful of common TLDs
What is the TLD of the domain you’re trying to move? Not all registrars support all domain names. For example
.iedomains for Ireland can only be registered at very few registrars, which is a pain.Off the top of my head, OVH might fulfill your needs, depending on the TLD.
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.software seems quite expensive (and long to type).
njalla offers registering .software domains, so I would recommend them.
I use porkbun, they seem great, why are you switching? Just to have a European based registrar?
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I get it. Good luck with your search!
Lol, what did you try to register? downwithdomainnameregistrars.com?
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Yes, this is normal. The alternative is having your domain stolen and held ransom by someone who pretends to be you. Usually they do have an alternative method though, using some other 2fa like a yubikey.
for that you really dont need ID verification. that and 2FA serve entirely different purposes. ID verification is to ensure you are not hiding your identity. 2FA is to ensure that you are really the account owner.
This is absolutely not normal.
While 2FA is normal, there are multiple ways to 2FA. I’ve never heard of having to install their own proprietary app on a phone just to use an authenticator token.
Not really. 2FA or other “strong” authentification for requesting the auth-code is common.
The receiving registrar doesn’t care at all.
Likely the only check there is, is fraud protection and that is them protecting themself against payment frauds and not you/the domain.
There are independent apps for that where you can link all your accounts.
Others have pointed out the app is for identification which makes sense to have an app to secure the exchange, but a lot of them don’t request identification in most cases.
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It can be normal depending on the tld you chose. There are territorial tld’s that are restricted to, eg, residents.
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This looks like a dream target for hackers. Imagine all the data you could find here. If there ever was a single point of failure, this is it.
Well, that’s all kinds of wrong.
Many services do that. However, very few make it the only 2fa allowed.