If I want the maximum anonymity while buying it?

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    Not GoDaddy.

    Other than that, go by price and reputation. The DNS service can be replaced pretty quickly for free if their DNS service is a problem. I usually register on DreamHist.com. Then use the free DNS service on CloudFlare.com

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      GoDaddy changed my domains fucking IP.

      That would be like if the USPS was like “oh you thought you’re at 123 fake street? No, it’s 897 false Ave now lol sucks for anyone who might not know!”

      I left immediately.

      Namecheap ftw.

      Fuck GoDaddy. If you pay them now, transfer.

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              In the olden days, Yahoo shuttered some of the largest digital properties on the internet with too little notice for them to be meaningfully archived (especially Yahoo Groups (easily the Reddit and Fediverse of its day) and Geocities (at a time before social media, a place to make a corner of the internet one’s own, it had mountains of longform geekery that’s now lost forever)).

              Yahoo also used to be one of most widely used free email providers. Not as ubiquitous as Gmail, but definitely very popular. During that time, they had at least two – and almost certainly more than four – instances where bad actors gained access to user accounts and Yahoo failed to immediately notify impacted users.

              This one time, they admitted that all their user email addresses, which then numbered in the billions, had been compromised by a years-old hack whose disclosure they seem to have withheld. The same thing happened a few months later, but affected only some email addresses. For the latter event, they were proven to have withheld discovery of the breach.

              There was this one journalist whose email details they gave to the Chinese government to enable his arrest. Then they lied about it to Congress.

              And while the NSA likely listens to every piece of data available to them, which trivially and almost effortlessly includes emails, and while Yahoo is one of the tech companies whose NSA PRISM membership is documented, Yahoo additionally performed scans for crime-adjacent keywords on all its users’ incoming and outgoing emails for years.

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      You can pay with crypto on porkbun too, so in the anonymity regard it should be high up on the list. Other than that, they’ve never caused me any trouble over multiple registrations, always fast, always zero fuss. Much recommended.

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      I like that they show the team on the About Us page, always makes me trust companies more. I also like that they have fun with the branding and mascot.

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        They steal people’s domain names, there have been many reports over the past couple of years. If anyone has a domain with them it’s recommended to transfer away. They used to be good, but I assume anyone still recommending them isn’t up to date on their behavior.

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          Do you have more details? And some sources so I can read up on that?

          • ollie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            all I could Google were random forum threads with and trust pilot reviews with no proof to back their claims. dbzer0 uses njalla just fine

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    Cloudflare provides at-cost domain name registration. It won’t be as private as njal.la, but if you end up using them for your site, then it would be one less entity to trust if you have your registration and DNS with them.

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        Same here, I moved my domains from Namecheap to Cloudflare and Cloudflare has been rock solid (no shocker there though).

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          Good to know. When the 60 day waiting period on transfers expires, I may move my domains to Cloudflare.

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      Njal.la is where I have all of my domains. You don’t have to give any info, you can access it through tor through a .onion domain, and you can pay with monero.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        But why? What are you using your domains for?

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          I use them for email aliases via adyy, and self hosting things like jellyfin and nextcloud. I don’t really “need” the privacy, but I still like to have it if I can.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            I feel like they are way too expensive, otherwise they are nice.

            I also kind of feel like domains shouldn’t necessarily be private.

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              They are a little pricey, I’ll give you that. Just out of curiosity why shouldn’t domains be private?

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                I honestly have no good reason. It just feels right for it to be public information for some reason.

                With that said, I would never register a personal domain without some kind of “whois” privacy. For obvious reasons.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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  • TrinityTek@lemmy.fdr8.us
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    If you’re in the US and care about domain privacy, don’t get a .us domain. .us domains are specifically forbidden from using domain privacy.

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    Define maximum for us?

    I use Namecheap and like their services. They have domain privacy aka it’s registered with their information instead of yours. If you just want to hide your name from people Googling or using a domain whois lookup, that’ll do the trick. If you’re trying to hide from people, you might need something more specific.

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      I switched from Google Domains to Namecheap and found that they have a non-standard requirement for A records (they require an “@” A record) that messed up the transfer. Godaddy, dyndns, and Google Domains use regular zone transfer tables and I thought those entries were all I needed. Nope. I finally emailed support and they told me what was wrong within 24 hours. But meanwhile, my site was down for that time.

      I suppose if you worked with one of the companies they partner with and use the automated templates to generate a new entry, it would work out fine. But I was transferring an existing domain. I know better now. But I put this out to warn others.

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        That’s pretty weird, there’s no reason to require any DNS record beyond those they have to provide (SOA and NS). You shouldn’t have to add an A record if you don’t need one.

        Was this just a snafu during transfer or is the A record a permanent requirement?

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      I use both, NFS for domain and hosting for my personal website and namecheap for everything else. NFS has no BS and I’ve had zero problems with them. Namecheap’s interface and tools are more sophisticated.

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    I have used namesilo, it’s pretty good. I got a very cheap domain for $1. Can’t say much about anonymity, but they haven’t annoyed me with emails and whatnot. You could also check out porkbun