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The prices differences of different providers for the same domain is crazy. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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These are for ten years on a 1.1111b xyz domain

Godaddy $17 (unsure if includes protection) Dynadot $11.50 (with whois protection) Xyz $19.90 (with whois protection)

Its all very confusing. I just want to get a domain for my server as cheap as

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Cloudflare sells domains at wholesale prices. Protection included.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    It's below wholesale for .com
    (this is because you're part of the price)

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    As with all domain sellers.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Others let you set custom NSs, so you can fuck off from their bullshit. You are stuck with cloudflares lineup here.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    And you should always separate NS from registrar so if one goes rogue or tits up, you can recover your domain.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    If your registrar goes rogue there's not much you can do. Custom NSs may buy you 12h.
    This separation gets you that it either breaks 100% or 0%. You're safe from ongoing enshittification until they kill custom NS.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You can usually do a domain transfer from a non-responding registrar if you can prove you have DNS control. It's a manual process, but I've had to do it. It's proved it's worth to me to have them separated. Now, you might be down for a while, but you don't have to go through a lengthy documentation process if you have DNS control.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's interesting, what tld was that on? That has to be done by the domain authority right?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That was a .com moving over to I think EasyDNS. They could expedite the domain transfer around the lock if I could prove I had DNS access. Might have done that moving to NameCheap too on another one.

    This was a few years ago too, everything has gotten stupid in the last few years. Maybe they won't do that without a dispensation from the Pope and a notarized clean bill of health from the STD clinic.

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