from ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 22 Sep 10:38
https://lemmy.world/post/52219370
I am in the hunt right now for a domain (I plan to use for email and such, meaning, things that would be tied to my legal person). As some of you know, by law in many places it is required to have a set of legally true information to register a domain (from name to house address, in case the domain needs to be verified to belong to a real person).
I was checking porkbun a second ago, and the privacy policy really does not give me confidence (they mention very clearly there is sale and ai training involved). I am from Europe so I would expect gdpr to be respected by default, however, they say I would have to send an email to get my rights and identify myself (I expect an Id upload which is not really a thing I want to do).
Considering all this, what are the better places for domains? I expect to pay more than porkbun, but if it people that do it right, so be it.
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Domain registrars do id verification now? I’m also in Europe and the mail is only for sending me the reminder to pay
When you send an email stating you want to exercise your gdpr rights, more often than not the companies asks for an identification of some sort. I’ve seen in multiple threads on other services that when that happens is common to ask for an Id. Which actually creates a chilling effect, making people less likely to go with the gdpr enforcement. So by default they don’t ask for anything, but the language implies the capability is there in case the gdpr clause is brought up
Most do now, When I swapped from namevheap to porkbun they id checked me. It was surprising
Recent? Never asked for one when switched to porkbun a couple years ago.
yea a few months ago
You will not find anything more privacy oriented than Njalla.
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The catch there is that you don’t technically own the domain, instead they do, right?
As far as I know technically you never own a domain, it’s a delegation. You might be right that they do some legal maneuvering to avoid having to collect technically required contact details, but the end result is that they do not have any info to give away even if the legal protection layer “fails”.
Right. They keep the ownership of the domain and service it to you. They can revert it and bar your access any time for any reason.
Alibaba, The Chinese are the most trustworthy.Just learned they support Omarchy. Fucking shit.
Check out incognet.io. You can buy a domain and pay for it with Monero.
And you do not have to give information about yourself. You are identified as incognit user, and then the company’s street address.
With that said, you don’t actually own the domain because it is in their name with their street address, so it’s mainly a for-benefit of type arrangement where the company actually owns it, and then they allow you to use it. As I said, you can pay with Monero, and the only thing you have to give them is an email address and a password, and they accept alias email addresses.
So if it becomes valuable they can sell it from under you with no issues.
Yeah, that is possible. That’s the risk you take, though, by wanting to be so private with a system that’s not meant for privacy.
If you want true privacy you control, go create yourself an .onion domain.
I use porkbun, connected to Proton for email. Porkbun itself only handles DNS requests, so I dont think there’s any data there. I suppose they could monitor which hosts are requesting my email?
They wouldn’t know if it’s one email account or hundreds, though.