Which non-US domain registrar to use?
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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.
What's up with everyone promoting registrars with the worst possible reviews on this whole comment section? Lol. The only one that even has remotely good reviews is Mythic Beasts.
I'd like to recommend IONOS (German).
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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.Non-US, afaik DD is in California
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Those reviews don't look very inspiring, not gonna lie.
Ultimately I don't think these "privacy-first" domain registrars are a great choice, which is a rare thing to say on the internet, but you're dealing with private property here and being ICANN-certified (which Njalla isn't) is kind of important if you're gonna do something serious with your domain.
I'm quite happy with EuroDNS. They even include free email housing if you want it.
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ovh is french and has quite the following in Europe
they also have good free tiers for hosting services i think? see them come up at a lot as an alternative to oracle for hosting small svcs
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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 use IONOS.
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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://www.infomaniak.com/en
Swiss based. I'm very happy with mine, never add issue
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ovh is french and has quite the following in Europe
OVH here, both domains, dedi server and a VPS.
Has an API to get an cert you want, even for non internet facing stuff
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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.
Canuck here. I've been moving all my domains from porkbun over to OVH. I still use desec.io for the DNS since they're based in Germany and like to keep it separate from the registrar.
If OVH plays its cards right they're going to be getting a lot more business from those looking to dump GCS, AWS, and Azure.
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Those reviews don't look very inspiring, not gonna lie.
Ultimately I don't think these "privacy-first" domain registrars are a great choice, which is a rare thing to say on the internet, but you're dealing with private property here and being ICANN-certified (which Njalla isn't) is kind of important if you're gonna do something serious with your domain.
Their trust pilot page is a shitshow, but I've had few problems in the 7 years I have used them. I have 9 domains registered, one of which is not possible to get back since I'm required to provide proof that I live in Sweden (.se domain). Wasn't the case when I initially bought it in 2018.
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Their trust pilot page is a shitshow, but I've had few problems in the 7 years I have used them. I have 9 domains registered, one of which is not possible to get back since I'm required to provide proof that I live in Sweden (.se domain). Wasn't the case when I initially bought it in 2018.
I've had few problems in the 7 years I have used them[...]
one of which is not possible to get back since I'm required to provide proof that I live in Sweden
[...] Wasn't the case when I initially bought it in 2018.Sounds like a severe case of Stockholm syndrome to me. /s
Anyways, you do you buddy. I don't trust them at all after those reviews. Especially when IONOS exists.
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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.
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., ... -
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://www.gandi.net/en/about-us
I use these guys, french
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Non-US, afaik DD is in California
Wow nice catch. I assumed they were local due to the low prices.
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Those reviews don't look very inspiring, not gonna lie.
Ultimately I don't think these "privacy-first" domain registrars are a great choice, which is a rare thing to say on the internet, but you're dealing with private property here and being ICANN-certified (which Njalla isn't) is kind of important if you're gonna do something serious with your domain.
Njalla is what you use if you don't want your name plastered all over the domain for various reasons
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Njalla is what you use if you don't want your name plastered all over the domain for various reasons
Its also what you use if you want to have your domain stolen, apparently.
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Its also what you use if you want to have your domain stolen, apparently.
People have had bad experiences and the founder of Njalla hasn't helped. There are other Domain registrars with a similar strategy to Njalla if you prefer them instead. One can't deny that not having your name on a domain allows for one to host... err, sensitive stuff
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I've had few problems in the 7 years I have used them[...]
one of which is not possible to get back since I'm required to provide proof that I live in Sweden
[...] Wasn't the case when I initially bought it in 2018.Sounds like a severe case of Stockholm syndrome to me. /s
Anyways, you do you buddy. I don't trust them at all after those reviews. Especially when IONOS exists.
They don't offer .se domains anymore for this reason. IONOS looks good, thanks for that 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.
I use INWX (based in Germany). Prices are consistently low (not always the cheapest, but fair). The web UI is a bit rusty, but it works perfectly and you can manage everything there.
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Canuck here. I've been moving all my domains from porkbun over to OVH. I still use desec.io for the DNS since they're based in Germany and like to keep it separate from the registrar.
If OVH plays its cards right they're going to be getting a lot more business from those looking to dump GCS, AWS, and Azure.
I found OVH quite confusing. Do they upsell you like crazy? I don't want to create an account on purpose just to find out.
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https://www.infomaniak.com/en
Swiss based. I'm very happy with mine, never add issueI was going over a bunch of alternatives last week and ended up creating an account here too. Haven't bought anything yet, but hopefully I will move my namecheap domain here. Seemed to be the one with most available domain extensions with a price tending to be cheaper and even some discounts. Looked and joker and inwx but either didn't have some interesting domains or were quite expensive. Specially inwx which only understood after creating and account that on top of each domain price I would need to add 5€ for basic whois privacy protection. On infomaniam it seems to be 2.5€ which combined with cheaper prices doesn't sound so bad.
