Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ?
Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ?
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
created by the pirate bay founder Peter Sunde.
I had a great experience with the service so far, no hoops to jump through, no obfuscated pricing, no personal data.
Their VPN and Server options are very pricey, but the domain prices are great.
I may have misunderstood your question. If you are looking specifically for a top level domain, I think .org is a decent one, as it is hosted by a non profit organization (even though there were some sellout debates in 2020)
.onion
Interesting choice, thanks. I guess for email with an onion domain I'd have to self host the email.
The
.onionmeans it's an onion service. This requires a Tor connection both for the host and the users. And frankly, hosting an onion service is not exactly easy to do it right, due to additional security considerations. Many self hosting guides assume a typical residential connection or a rented VPS without an onion service.Yeah but this way you can only communicate with other Tor users. Also the mail server can prolly easily leak your actual IP if you don't harden it well.
Free, more secure, and only accessible by ~2% of Internet users
Didn't the guy who made piratebay start a domain registry?
Yes : https://njal.la/
1.25 EUR/month. I think this is your solution, op
Is there anything bad about namecheap?
Namecheap gets good reviews as far as I know but not sure I'd like to go with anything USA based if I can avoid that.
Take them offline?