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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

  • Catsrules@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I would also include support for Dynamic DNS and API access as well. Those both can come in handy depending on what your doing. I know this wasn’t as common years back but maybe it is more supported now.

    I used Namecheap and I think they required that I have like $50 credit on my account before the API access would open up. Maybe that has changed, like I said this was years ago last time I need to look.

    • lal309@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Fair point. I failed to mentioned features in my previous comment. Things like WHOIS Privacy are essential to me and I imagine it is for most of us (self hosters)

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Any registrar worth their salt will offer whois privacy and local representative services nowadays. I would not use a registrar that wasn’t capable of them — even if my domain didn’t require either, I would take it as a sign their services are limited and sub par.

        • lal309@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Absolutely agree! Just pointing it out in case OP runs into a registrar that doesn’t offer this

    • Illiterate Domine@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Most self-hosters are probably using dns services through their registrar, but you don’t have to. A registrar with poor api support might still be a good choice, if that was the only negative.