▲ 36 ▼ Registrar recommendation? (piefed.zip) submitted 6 months ago by UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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?
[+] versionc@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent