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I've been moving domains to uniregistry to get away from godaddy's constant price increases. In the middle of transferring another 60 domains over I get a noti

I've been moving domains to uniregistry to get away from godaddy's constant price increases. In the middle of transferring another 60 domains over I get a notice that goaddady is taking over uniregistry. then later that day I see these stories about icann raising the prices even more. maybe the article about this handshake un-censor-able domains thing will provide some good news for this space. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310604 What is the most uncensored registrar for .coms now? I refuse to let the names I've been working on be taken over by godaddy.

exhilaration 7y ago
Namecheap and Gandi.net get a lot of love from HN.
- larrik 7y ago
  I don't think Gandi.net is still loved by HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
  - jtl999 7y ago
    That was an issue with their hosting service, and didn't affect domains. As for myself personally I keep my own backups of my own externally hosted content but I don't disagree that this issue was a big doozy for Gandi.
- ticmasta 7y ago
  >> ... Gandi.net get a lot of love from HN. not lately!
- stevenicr 7y ago
  namecheap is all like "contain nudity, pornography or other content deemed adult related" - and I'm like, that's a fine choice, but I need a place that would protect Larry Flynt, otherwise I can't count on them to protect me. More censorship, not trying to put my eggs in that basket.
  - jtl999 7y ago
    That appears to be their ToS for hosting, not domains, no?
    - stevenicr 7y ago
      yes that is for their hosting and not mentioned for domains. However I have seen some companies take my money and then a year later say they can not support adult stuff at all and won't even look at a trouble ticket if you have a domain name. Not sure if rtmedia's choice to do that is personal, or because their home country had gotten more aggressive in their pron bans, or maybe they hired on support people who were sensitive, I don't know, but I paid them around $500 and now I have a system that is having trouble and no way to fix it. I have noticed that some companies are quick to turn over data or discontinue service to places if they get bad press, a request from an agency, and with the wave of cancel culture rising along with gov prudeness in major countries, I think it's better to be somewhere that will fight for speech rather than shrug off something they don't like in the first place. I wish I knew which registrar stormer got in with - I'd think there is less to worry about there. Maybe if a co like dreamhost was doing domain names - they have been tested with threats from powerful entities and fought back at least.
      - jtl999 7y ago
        Not disagreeing with your concerns, and I've heard some concerning stories regarding Namecheap and possible account compromises through means that weren't the fault of the customer and some privacy concerns, so I'm going to avoid them again. (was a former customer and left related to the above reasons)
wtmt 7y ago
I’m a bit wary of larger companies in general, but you could take a look at Cloudflare (which has kicked out certain people/sites) and the news around it to see if that would be suitable for some (if not all) of your domains. The pricing is also cheaper.
- stevenicr 7y ago
  I would of jumped for couldflare some years ago, but after seeing them change from anti-censorship into spying on data and sending it to various gov agencies - I can't support the anti-privacy and censoring of another monopoly to try to not support the same across the street.
  - wtmt 7y ago
    Can you elaborate on the spying please?
    - stevenicr 7y ago
      on 8/4/2019 cloudflare ceo posted publicly on their blog that were now looking at the data going through their pipes and making decisions about taking it down. The ramble back and forth shows it was a tough decision, but nonetheless they admit to knowing their power controlling so much of the net, and they actively suggest more countries pass more laws to make them hand over even more. They say they do not do anything with the 1st amendment in mind. https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ At least they say "We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often" However the pattern I have seen over the years is that lots of noise is made for cloudflare to take something offline, and they say 'we can't, we don't moderate content, we're a dumb pipe' - so lots of groups complain about stuff they don't like, but free speech keeps going. Well that all changed, and now that all these groups will start to know that they will moderate content it's only a matter of the slippery slope. this part: "what we have done to try and solve the Internet’s deeper problem is engage with law enforcement and civil society organizations to try and find solutions. Among other things, that resulted in us cooperating around monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement when there was content that contained" Tells it all to me, but I see it as just the beginning. More will come to them and more will be cancelled. They appear to also be engaging with jurisdictions to also change laws to make it so they can say they are forced to give up the data not that they are voluntarily doing it. At least that's how I read it.
slouch 7y ago
i love hover.com
speedgoose 7y ago
Bookmyname is pretty low level and it looks like nothing has been updated for 20 years but it's cheap, and it works https://www.bookmyname.com/?wl=en https://www.bookmyname.com/?wl=en
- kingludite 7y ago
  * slow clap
lukewrites 7y ago
I use porkbun.com. It's cheap and good.
bhartzer 7y ago
>> What is the most uncensored registrar for .coms now? Try Epik.com
jotm 7y ago
Paknic.com will take care of all your private/uncensored/illicit needs... unless they're forced to close I guess :D

exhilaration 7y ago

Namecheap and Gandi.net get a lot of love from HN.

larrik 7y ago
I don't think Gandi.net is still loved by HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
- jtl999 7y ago
  That was an issue with their hosting service, and didn't affect domains. As for myself personally I keep my own backups of my own externally hosted content but I don't disagree that this issue was a big doozy for Gandi.
ticmasta 7y ago
>> ... Gandi.net get a lot of love from HN. not lately!
stevenicr 7y ago
namecheap is all like "contain nudity, pornography or other content deemed adult related" - and I'm like, that's a fine choice, but I need a place that would protect Larry Flynt, otherwise I can't count on them to protect me. More censorship, not trying to put my eggs in that basket.
- jtl999 7y ago
  That appears to be their ToS for hosting, not domains, no?
  - stevenicr 7y ago
    yes that is for their hosting and not mentioned for domains. However I have seen some companies take my money and then a year later say they can not support adult stuff at all and won't even look at a trouble ticket if you have a domain name. Not sure if rtmedia's choice to do that is personal, or because their home country had gotten more aggressive in their pron bans, or maybe they hired on support people who were sensitive, I don't know, but I paid them around $500 and now I have a system that is having trouble and no way to fix it. I have noticed that some companies are quick to turn over data or discontinue service to places if they get bad press, a request from an agency, and with the wave of cancel culture rising along with gov prudeness in major countries, I think it's better to be somewhere that will fight for speech rather than shrug off something they don't like in the first place. I wish I knew which registrar stormer got in with - I'd think there is less to worry about there. Maybe if a co like dreamhost was doing domain names - they have been tested with threats from powerful entities and fought back at least.
    - jtl999 7y ago
      Not disagreeing with your concerns, and I've heard some concerning stories regarding Namecheap and possible account compromises through means that weren't the fault of the customer and some privacy concerns, so I'm going to avoid them again. (was a former customer and left related to the above reasons)

wtmt 7y ago

I’m a bit wary of larger companies in general, but you could take a look at Cloudflare (which has kicked out certain people/sites) and the news around it to see if that would be suitable for some (if not all) of your domains. The pricing is also cheaper.

stevenicr 7y ago
I would of jumped for couldflare some years ago, but after seeing them change from anti-censorship into spying on data and sending it to various gov agencies - I can't support the anti-privacy and censoring of another monopoly to try to not support the same across the street.
- wtmt 7y ago
  Can you elaborate on the spying please?
  - stevenicr 7y ago
    on 8/4/2019 cloudflare ceo posted publicly on their blog that were now looking at the data going through their pipes and making decisions about taking it down. The ramble back and forth shows it was a tough decision, but nonetheless they admit to knowing their power controlling so much of the net, and they actively suggest more countries pass more laws to make them hand over even more. They say they do not do anything with the 1st amendment in mind. https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ At least they say "We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often" However the pattern I have seen over the years is that lots of noise is made for cloudflare to take something offline, and they say 'we can't, we don't moderate content, we're a dumb pipe' - so lots of groups complain about stuff they don't like, but free speech keeps going. Well that all changed, and now that all these groups will start to know that they will moderate content it's only a matter of the slippery slope. this part: "what we have done to try and solve the Internet’s deeper problem is engage with law enforcement and civil society organizations to try and find solutions. Among other things, that resulted in us cooperating around monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement when there was content that contained" Tells it all to me, but I see it as just the beginning. More will come to them and more will be cancelled. They appear to also be engaging with jurisdictions to also change laws to make it so they can say they are forced to give up the data not that they are voluntarily doing it. At least that's how I read it.

slouch 7y ago

i love hover.com

speedgoose 7y ago

Bookmyname is pretty low level and it looks like nothing has been updated for 20 years but it's cheap, and it works https://www.bookmyname.com/?wl=en https://www.bookmyname.com/?wl=en

kingludite 7y ago
* slow clap

lukewrites 7y ago

I use porkbun.com. It's cheap and good.

bhartzer 7y ago

>> What is the most uncensored registrar for .coms now? Try Epik.com

jotm 7y ago

Paknic.com will take care of all your private/uncensored/illicit needs... unless they're forced to close I guess :D