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Which non-US domain registrar to use? (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am running a NAS at home, Minecraft server and some other stuff.

I want to make it all easier to access by getting my own domain, both for myself and friends and family.

Will also use it for my mail address etc.

My main goal is reduce my dependency on US services for very obvious reasons.

What's a good non US dns registrar to use? Found a ton online, but it's my first time doing this and I'm a bit lost unfortunately.

Any help and/or advice is greatly appreciated.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Keep an eye on the price. I recently switched my .be domains from Gandi to Dynadot. 36 vs 6.8 euros per year, I had no idea such a difference was possible. Fuck Gandi.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Gandi got sold 2 times

    Basically the company went from “no bullshit” to “just another asset for some capitalist fund who only cares about extracting as much value as possible”

    It would be so good to have a no profit owned or cooperative European domain seller

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    porkbun (USA) generally has the best prices and will give you a massive list of everything as well which most other sites won't. I generally get my sites for 10 years at a time ~ $2 per year (whenever some random TLD is on sale)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm on porkbun for some other domains, very happy with them. Except for them not offering .be domains... :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    call them up and ask them why they don't lmao. I actually did have to call them once for a company thing and someone in Oregon picked up.. Unheard of service.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not a bad idea! I usually let my money do the talking, and just move if a company doesn't offer what I need. But I might make an exception in this case, thanks for the tip!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Lol yea I figured it was some governmental reason but I see name.com etc has .be so no idea why they wouldn't have it. Some TLDs have specific restrictions and only allow certain sites to resell it

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