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?

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year 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@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year 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.

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year 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.

    • fadelkon@info.prou.be
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year 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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year 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
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year 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

        • fadelkon@info.prou.be
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year 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 ;)

  • jet@hackertalks.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

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

  • Efwis@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year 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.

  • Entropy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year 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