I want to buy a couple domain names and am not sure who to roll with and why. Does it matter?

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zoom_zip wrote on March 18, 2021 at 7:40 PM

i used namecheap because they gave free whois protection, but you still have to fill in all the icann details and i don’t know if they do anything with your data. are there any registrars that let you pay cash to break the data trail?

ziq wrote on March 18, 2021 at 7:45 PM

depends what you need the domain for, I use a free speech registrar for obvious reasons, will pm you

existential1 OP wrote on March 18, 2021 at 7:51 PM (edited on March 18, 2021 at 7:52 PM)

Thanks! I'm using for a propaganda effort regarding growing trees from seed.

whipskid wrote on March 18, 2021 at 7:02 PM

You could consider getting a NFT blockchain domain

masque wrote on March 18, 2021 at 11:43 PM (edited on March 18, 2021 at 11:54 PM)

It looks like this requires some sort of gateway to actually, like, work as a domain name that can be resolved in a normal browser? And operating that gateway would still require you to register a normal domain name? It's not immediately clear to me how this works from the documentation.

Also, ridiculous environmental costs for blockchain, etc.

moonlune wrote on March 18, 2021 at 7:37 PM

https://tld-list.com/ maybe

masque wrote on March 18, 2021 at 11:22 PM

I picked namecheap semi-arbitrarily, but they've been perfectly fine for me so far.

I have a .ca domain, so my WHOIS information is hidden due to Canadian privacy law, but this is probably not a good choice for anarchist stuff, for obvious reasons. (Also only available if you're a Canadian citizen or resident).

capitan wrote on March 19, 2021 at 6:21 PM

EasyDNS seems like a nice shop. They are mainly DNS hosting though. Domain registration is a side business for them, and they will only register a handful of TLDs.