Which non-US domain registrar to use?
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No upselling. Yes they might have something in the order process. Like when ordering a VPS you can add windows os or some control panel type software. I didn't pay anything extra and my domains all have private whois details when lookups are done. The one thing they did offer in the order process for domain transfer was something to do with anycast DNS, but it was just a box on the page and wasn't in your face or annoying.
No annoying emails either. I only get emails from them related to services I purchased from them which include changes to whois contacts(also usually get a email from CIRA for my .ca domains), bill PDF being ready for download, or additional IP is available and ready for use etc.
No upselling.
Bullshit. Within minutes of registering just to look at some stuff I got spammed with all sorts of bullshit via email. Custom one-off throwaway email alias.
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No upselling.
Bullshit. Within minutes of registering just to look at some stuff I got spammed with all sorts of bullshit via email. Custom one-off throwaway email alias.
Thats unfortunate. I simply shared my experience. Been a customer for over 5 years so maybe they've changed their on boarding of new customers and the emails that are sent out.
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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.
I just wish more of the non-US ones supported .ca domains.
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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.
I moved all my domains over to FullHost.ca from NameCheap and they’ve been pretty good so far. As far as I can tell, they’re just a reseller but their support has been really good.
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I've been a happy customer with joker.com (Germany) for at least 10 years.
Like the best kept secret of domain registrars
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I just wish more of the non-US ones supported .ca domains.
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Hello!
I was a 20 years old customer of GANDI. My advice is now to use Bookmyname or OVH.
Hey
I just bought a domain for the first time, from Gandi.
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OVH no problems for years.
BUT choose domain that is also maintained by non-US organization.
Like national TLDs from the EU, or fancy like one., cloud., ...Is .dev maintained by the US?
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Is .dev maintained by the US?
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Is .dev maintained by the US?
You can easily check it by WHOIS:
$ whois dev. % IANA WHOIS server % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org/ % This query returned 1 object domain: DEV organisation: Charleston Road Registry Inc. address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway address: Mountain View CA 94043 address: United States of America (the) # the rest of output omittedAnd some hints give Wikipedia: List of Internet top-level domains.
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That's unfortunate
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I can highly recommend Mythic Beasts (UK).
There is no upsell or variable pricing and they make money by charging a flat rate on top of the cost from their supplier. See this blog post for more info
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi
This one is in the top registrars ever to exist and is very old as well. Coincidentally also not in USA. Other rivals of "greatness" are things like porkbun (USA) and namecheap (USA)
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Keep an eye on the price. I recently switched my
.bedomains from Gandi to Dynadot. 36 vs 6.8 euros, I had no idea such a difference was possible. Fuck Gandi. -
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)
I'm on porkbun for some other domains, very happy with them. Except for them not offering .be domains...
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I'm on porkbun for some other domains, very happy with them. Except for them not offering .be domains...
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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.
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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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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