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Registrar recommendation? (piefed.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip [S] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] TechGuy@discuss.online 5 points 6 months ago

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