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I want to buy a domain name for personal usage (reverse proxy, selfhosting serivces). I’ll probably go with a general purpose .net or my country specifc one. I am based in Northern Europe.

  • Does it matter based on where I am located where the domain is registered?
  • Any recommendations for domain registrars in that regard?

Thanks

  • Ryan@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Porkbun! There are many to pick from but from my experience Porkbun includes everything you need out of the box at no additional cost. Namecheap has very good first year deals, but after that it almost doubles in price.

    Which registrar you pick initially doesn’t matter too much. I started with Namecheap then moved to Porkbun after a year with them (Completely free to move, but you’ll have to buy an extra year if you move tho)

    Don’t use GoDaddy though. I was searching for a domain on that site and after a few minutes it was taken.

    • dinosaurdynasty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      My two issues with porkbun:

      They don’t seem to support wildcard/catch all email forwarding Dynamic DNS is done with an API key that has access to the entire account(!!!)

      Though, I might move to them anyway (just moved a domain to namecheap which I used years ago and wow their ux sucks, and they don’t support dane or sshfp, Google domains was really good rip)

    • kenopsik@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Don’t use GoDaddy though. I was searching for a domain on that site and after a few minutes it was taken.

      There are reasons to avoid GoDaddy, but what you experienced isn’t really a GoDaddy-specific problem. If a domain gets registered on one provider, it will be unavailable on all providers. Unless you are accusing them of falsely saying they were taken but are available for purchase at a premium. I don’t think I’ve heard of them doing that, but who knows what kind of greedy tactics corporations will try these days.