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submitted 8 months ago by chevy9294@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Teon@kbin.social 21 points 8 months ago

Namesilo and Namecheap are good registrars. I suggest Namecheap for hosting.

[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Namecheap.com Been using them for years, amazing service.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago
[-] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] governorkeagan@mastodon.social 13 points 8 months ago

@chevy9294 I buy through namecheap and manage them via Cloudflare

[-] Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

Purchase and maintain through Namecheap. Manage DNS records through Cloudflare.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 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?

[-] Yinchie@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I would suggest https://njal.la if you value privacy.

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I've always used Hover.com for my domains, if that helps.

[-] starman@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

I've recently bought .dev on porkbun

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I buy almost all my domains from cloudflare

[-] fadelkon@info.prou.be 3 points 8 months ago

Have you checked if this impacts the availability on your sites from Tor? While on Tor, I'm really fed up of Cloudflare "security pages" blocking me away from sites that are served via them. I don't trust they treat DNS differently.

[-] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

That’s a security feature the owner sets. Your beef is with the website trying to improve their security and the malicious actors that warrant that, cloudflare just provides the tools.

From a privacy standpoint, cloudflare dns protects your sites very well. They will proxy requests so you don’t have to reveal your IPs, and provide a lot of security tools for free. Even without registering your domain there its a great option for DNS.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 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@sopuli.xyz 8 points 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@lemy.lol 2 points 8 months ago

Nice, did you have to give them any personal info?

[-] fadelkon@info.prou.be 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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@lemy.lol 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks, that's even better than I thought honestly

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

OVH and CloudFlare's DNS zone

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 8 months ago

cloudflare for their excellent security, domain lockdown, and use of hardware security keys.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 3 points 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.

[-] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

No expirience, but I've heard porkbun.com is nice

[-] Killercat103@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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.

this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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