Private and/or cheap places to register a domain

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I’m currently using namecheap to buy cheap domains, I know they are not necessarily cheap in long term, but first year + coupons make them almost free

But now I’ve got some domains I don’t want to just use one year, and it gives pretty much a lot of issues with pricing and privacy

So please, people, share services you use, and tell me whether they are private and/or cheap and/or have all those countless generic domains and not just .com .org .net

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

pay for what you use

rdyoung,

They aren’t looking to host a website. They are looking for domain registrars

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

ha, uh, that is what they do there. maybe go take a look before jumping to conclusions. they also have great privacy costs for those domains

LufyCZ,

It’s not.

glimse,

I took a look and didn’t see domains mentioned until you go to the members login page. It’s not even on the sign up page.

So, uh, maybe go take a look at the link you’re posting. And also don’t write “pay for what you use” when someone is asking about buying a domain if you don’t want people to think you misunderstood the question

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

whatever take it leave dont care, just my suggestion i standy by. have a nice day

atzanteol,

They do that too:

www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing

rdyoung,

I would stick with namecheap (for now) and pony up for a multi year registration. If in 5 or 10 years they are jacking the price up then you can use another registrars cheap port option to get a discount. I did this recently between godaddy and namecheap. I had one domain left with godaddy that I have owned for over probably a couple of decades at this point and they were seriously jacking the rate up on me, I ported it to namecheap for a massive discount.

dept,

TLD-List is a pretty good resource to compare different registrars for any tld.

RotaryKeyboard, (edited )
@RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Porkbun is sort of the darling of the self hosting community. I settled on them after doing a huge comparison of prices and features of all the different registrars available to me. Porkbun was by far the best.

morriscox,

Out of curiosity, why did you use HTTP instead of HTTPS?

RotaryKeyboard,
@RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Totally unintentional. I’ll edit it.

Poutinetown,

Cloudflare

chiisana,

There’s a vocal handful group of people disliking CloudFlare because of their irrelevant “privacy” concern here — you can absolutely use the registrar without using their CDN features. Also, reality check: with CloudFlare’s market reach, there’s zero chance nothing they do online isn’t already MITM’ed already. Having said that, Cloudflare uses their registrar as loss leader, so they give their wholesale price to end users registering, and as such you’ll have the cheapest price available for the domain extensions they support. You can then just set your DNS without their orange cloud and traffic on your domain aren’t going to flow through their CDN.

Poutinetown,

So they profit from high-profile commercial users to subsidize the free tier (proxy, tunnels) and cheap DNS. What’s wrong with that? It’s not like we absolutely need those (proxy is nice but you can use vps, tunnels are also offered by ngrok).

cm0002,

I used to use Google Domains, but then they sold that off to Squarespace.

Now I just use Cloudflare directly lol which also includes their free services, which is quite the value IMO

DichotoDeezNutz,
@DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world avatar

Same

danny801, (edited )
@danny801@lemmy.world avatar

I use njal.la

zzzz,

This is the correct answer if privacy is your priority. They’re not particularly cheap, however.

anytimesoon,

What makes a registrar more privacy focused than another. Just had a read of their website, but couldn’t understand why they’re better for privacy than any other

subtext,

They own the domain instead of you. They can then act as a middle man between any inquiries and you, and as a company, they’re able to shield you from many 3rd parties.

anytimesoon,

That’s interesting. So they buy the domain on your behalf and then rent it out to you. Pretty cool concept

That said, I’ve owned a fair few domains and never had to deal with 3rd parties, so I’m not sure if the added security risk (however small) of them hijacking your domain is worth it. For me, at least. YMMV

derpgon,

Theoretically, any registrar can hijack your domain.

owenfromcanada,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

I use Dreamhost, can’t speak to the privacy but the rates are pretty good

ze11e,
@ze11e@lemy.lol avatar

1984.hosting is a cheap and private cloud provider and domain registrar I’ve used for years with much success

atzanteol,

123cheapdomains.com

floridaman,

there are lots of cheap domain registrar options but if you’re looking for a cheap .com I always go for cloudflare, they also offer .org for pretty cheap and many other options as well. The domains other than the common ones are pretty decently priced as well. I migrated all my domains there last year and it’s really simple, integrates with their DNS really well and payment is pretty streamlined.

subtext,

Yeah tbh if I’m already going to be using Cloudflare for DNS, might as well use them for their registrar as well. One fewer entity to trust.

spader312,

Namesilo

Faceman2K23,
@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

With Google domains transferring to Squarespace I’ll be transferring my one remaining domain with them to something else soon enough.

I already moved all of my other domains over to a local provider I use for work that has treated me well, but this one last google domain address has my self hosted services on it and I was using some features that I didn’t want to have to transfer so I kept it with google. I was using their ddns service too but my IP is now sticky (effectively static but can change in some rare circumstances) and it has only changed once in the last 3 years so I think I’ll just manually manage the A records if needed until I either go fully static or use a third party ddns provider. I also use email aliasing to use me@mydomain with gmail.

Zealousideal_Fox900,

asurahosting?

possiblylinux127,

gen.xyz?

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