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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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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Porkbun. A lot of people use Cloudflare too

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

+1 to porkbun. At the forefront of security and completed my transfer in minutes when I moved over to them.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Agreed, Porkbun are great.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

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

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] governorkeagan@mastodon.social 14 points 2 years ago

@chevy9294 I buy through namecheap and manage them via Cloudflare

[–] Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] starman@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

I've recently bought .dev on porkbun

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] fadelkon@info.prou.be 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 2 years ago

Thanks, that's even better than I thought honestly

[–] Efwis@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

OVH and CloudFlare's DNS zone

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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