Do you know if they still have to share you details as who owns the domain? Not that I’m up to anything sinister, just will be for a home server but still nice for anonymity and places like names.co.uk charge more for hiding those details.
i picked them partially because they offer obfuscation services to hide your ownership from public registration information. it is an extra charge per domain.
These days, I don’t remember the last registrar I’ve seen that does not provide at least some kind of basic hosting. Maybe they want to grow like all businesses, maybe just being a registrar doesn’t keep the lights on anymore. Not sure, but it definitely seems to be the thing most, if not all, do now.
Probably some mix of: it was an unknown and unregulated industry when domains were invented, the idea of ‘property’ doesn’t really work like that IRL (the bank or local government can take your house for myriad reasons), and people aren’t motivated enough to make any significant changes.
This looks like they provide hosting services?
I believe a domain name provider are the folk that sell domain names.
they are both a registrar and host. i, for example host no sites with them. i only register domains here and use their dns.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains
Registrar. That’s the term. Thanks.
I’ll check out their pricing.
Do you know if they still have to share you details as who owns the domain? Not that I’m up to anything sinister, just will be for a home server but still nice for anonymity and places like names.co.uk charge more for hiding those details.
i picked them partially because they offer obfuscation services to hide your ownership from public registration information. it is an extra charge per domain.
These days, I don’t remember the last registrar I’ve seen that does not provide at least some kind of basic hosting. Maybe they want to grow like all businesses, maybe just being a registrar doesn’t keep the lights on anymore. Not sure, but it definitely seems to be the thing most, if not all, do now.
I wonder why we have to have registrars or to put it better I wonder why a person can’t buy a domain for life and own it.
Probably some mix of: it was an unknown and unregulated industry when domains were invented, the idea of ‘property’ doesn’t really work like that IRL (the bank or local government can take your house for myriad reasons), and people aren’t motivated enough to make any significant changes.