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Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Question after reading this new article : https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/criticism-as-dutch-domain-registry-plans-move-to-amazon-cloud/

My current preferences :

Not more expensive than two euros a month
Whois information cloaking
Not profiting from some Pacific Island money deal
Privacy friendly

Edit : Found a spreadsheet by EFF from 2017 which gives some insights : https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners

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[–] darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are not wrong, but there is a reason that identification requirements exist for domain registration. In any case, however, at the end of the day a person who registers a domain through Njalla does not have ownership of the domain. This is not an insignificant fact no matter how you spin it. It's not your domain. You're blindly trusting someone whose credentials are to have pirated movies two decades ago with something that might potentially be tremendously valuable, if to no one else but yourself.

Unless you're literally doing something illegal, choosing Njalla over a regular vendor offering WHOIS privacy is to move beyond privacy consciousness into the realm of paranoid recklessness.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I more or less agree with you.

Do you know of an alternative service, which is easy to use, allows a private whois entry, but gives you the ownership of the domain?

Before njalla, I tried domain.com and I couldn't get the domain in 2 days after ordering it, so I cancelled. (they wrote an email saying that they are reviewing my order and will get back to me in 24h, which they didn't).

I just want to pay and get a domain without the hoops and without giving them my personal address and phone number.