Which non-US domain registrar to use?

[Guest]

It is, I just checked, by a subsidiary of google

[lnxtx@feddit.nl]

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 omitted

And some hints give Wikipedia: List of Internet top-level domains.

[pathief@lemmy.world]

That's unfortunate

[Guest]

I use them as well, never had any issues.

They have a useful API I leverage to manage DNS entries with scripts and cron jobs which is probably fairly standard these days but seemed to be a little harder to find when I first moved to them.

[Guest]

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)

[Guest]

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)

[myrmidex@slrpnk.net]

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

[Guest]

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.

[myrmidex@slrpnk.net]

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!

[Guest]

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