Registrar recommendation?
from UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 May 19:19
https://piefed.zip/c/selfhosted/p/1446200/registrar-recommendation
from UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 May 19:19
https://piefed.zip/c/selfhosted/p/1446200/registrar-recommendation
Recently tried to buy a domain through Porkbun since their name always comes up in these threads, but they wanted a picture of my ID. What other providers do you guys recommend?
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Unpopular but cloudflare direct? I didn’t need to provide photo id for porkbun, buy I did sign up a while ago. Apart from that I have used gandi but they took a weird turn with their pricing etc
What TLD did you choose on porkbun? Maybe it’s a national TLD that requires your ID. I have .EU, .me and .org domains with them and I was never asked for an ID.
I have bought two dozen domains (with common TLDs) on Porkbun and have never been asked for KYC.
I was going for one of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains. I can’t check exactly what the message said since it have me the option to delete my account, which I did, but I believe the gist of it was about fighting against spam
It’s for the cheap “1.111B” 6 or 7 digit xyz domains. I think it’s a recent thing, but they’re basically being bought up en masse and used for botnets/spam, so as an attempt to stem the flow the .xyz registry asks for ID
I went for an .org and the same happened to me. After digging, Porkbun says is an automated flag of suspicious account, irrelevant to the TLD.
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I second this. I recently bought a domain from them, and they didn’t even ask for my name.
I’ve been using porkbun and they never asked my ID. Maybe it’s specific to the .xyz TLD? That surprises me but the domain you wanted are super cheap, so maybe they attract spammers. .xyz is somewhat disreputable anyway.
This is actually the first time I had heard of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains being discounted (.99/year). That was not mentioned on porkbun’s .xyz page, but web search found info. For those unaware, those domains register and renew at $0.99/year at some registrars, though $1.24 at porkbun.
And lol, almost everything I could think of related to mathematical constants were unavailable, e.g. 61803399.xyz. Some random ones were available and maybe I’ll try to buy one just to see what happens.
I wonder if porkbun suddenly requires ID for all domain purchases? That would be annoying. It’s been a while since I last bought from them.
Added: ok, this might help: kb.porkbun.com/…/225-why-porkbun-id-verification
I use ovh
OVH for the win?