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?
Porkbun. A lot of people use Cloudflare too
+1 to porkbun. At the forefront of security and completed my transfer in minutes when I moved over to them.
Agreed, Porkbun are great.
Namesilo and Namecheap are good registrars. I suggest Namecheap for hosting.
Namecheap.com Been using them for years, amazing service.
I 2nd Namecheap
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@chevy9294 I buy through namecheap and manage them via Cloudflare
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!
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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.
What’s terrible about their hosting?
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I would suggest https://njal.la if you value privacy.
I’ve always used Hover.com for my domains, if that helps.
I’ve recently bought
.devon porkbunOn 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
I buy almost all my domains from cloudflare
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.
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.
They do this when I’m on a VPN too
cloudflare for their excellent security, domain lockdown, and use of hardware security keys.
OVH and CloudFlare’s DNS zone
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.
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
