Which non-US domain registrar to use?
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https://www.infomaniak.com/en
Swiss based. I'm very happy with mine, never add issue
I 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.
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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
Does their final price already include WHOIS protection?
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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.
As far from US as possible.)
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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.
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.
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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).
Been using Strato (subsidiary of IONOS) for a few years now as well and got no complaints.
Plus its only 12€/a for a .de or .eu domain. -
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.
Understood 🫡 thanks for that. I am generally happy with IONOS however their DNS propagation seems to take forever. I have a new domain I bought a couple days ago and my email provider's DNS still hasn't propagated... I thought we were past the 72h propagation era, but I guess not with everyone.
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As far from US as possible.)
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https://www.gandi.net/en/about-us
I use these guys, french
Great service and prices, I always use them too. Didn't even know they are french!
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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.
Hello!
I was a 20 years old customer of GANDI. My advice is now to use Bookmyname or OVH.
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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.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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Great service and prices, I always use them too. Didn't even know they are french!
Same tbh, positively surprised
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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.
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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?
