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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Context (from the FAQ):

"We're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these. We sit in between the domain name registration service and you, acting as a privacy shield.

When you purchase a domain name through Njalla, we own it for you. However, the agreement between us grants you full usage rights to the domain. Whenever you want to, you can transfer the ownership to yourself or some other party."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

afaik, that is the only way to legally have an anonymous whois entry on the clearnet (please correct me if I am wrong)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think in Europe the domain name providers (or would one rather call them resellers ?) switched to redacting all private domain holder information since a few years. It was actually quite horrible like it was before, so much email spam, a free ticket for spammers to put all those Whois information wide open on the Internet. Some providers, like Greenhost in NL, provided Whois masking (cloaking ?) for customers paying a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I also tried Contabo, because I have other stuff there and they wanted a proper whois entry