You will not find anything more privacy oriented than Njalla.
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If you want to actually “get” a domain name from icann, you are required to give them identifying information. There is no way around that. Except for the part at the end of this reply.
You can go through incognito or njalla and maybe even someone else, but at that point it’s “their” domain and you’re just renting it. The difference may matter for your purposes. Think critically about what you are trying to avoid and accomplish.
It’s not clear to me what you as a self identifying European expect to accomplish by not verifying your id with a group that asks for it in order to comply with the privacy law you imply you’d prefer to have the protections of. This is another area where I would encourage you to think critically about what you’re trying to accomplish and what material conditions surround you.
If you don’t want to do all that, just break the law. There’s a bigass database of ids from a breach of some company that does in person id scanning. Each one is a few bucks and you could easily pose as one of those people.
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.
Domain registrars do id verification now? I'm also in Europe and the mail is only for sending me the reminder to pay
Most do now, When I swapped from namecheap to porkbun they id checked me. It was surprising
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
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.
Hey, we partner with Faivelo for email. Very dependable, includes read receipts, and unlimited mailboxes priced by storage so we only pay for what we use. Solid customer experience.
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.
Cloudflare are my go to. Mostly because they sell at cost though, don't have to worry about being shafted on renewals. https://www.cloudflare.com/domains/
I didn't check cloudflare yet, but I will need to double check their policies. Although I do know domain names and renewal shafting are a known problem
dum queston: why do u (not you sfecficaly just someone in general) need a domain
emails mostly, so you don't depend on any provider, and you can have unique email for every account you create, so if one is getting spam on you can just filter all email send to it and you know who sold your data or got a breach
wow
fingerprting related question: does this make you more unique?
example "lol some weirdo is using his own domain on multiple websties and not gmail i bet these emails are the same guy"
not really more than using just one e-mail for all account
but it's not a way to reduce online fingerprint yes, for this there is alias providers
I've always struggled while drafting how to reduce email fingerprinting. I know so few reliable alias providers, and many of those end up on blocklists. I've been considering a layered approach with a domain tied to my real life identity, and aliases for things not tied into my real self, but I'm not sure how to solve things satisfactorily.
Some people like to have their own domain for email. Like @lastname.com
Few reasons I can think of:
- Proper SSL support
- Reachability of networks with dynamic IPv4 (through dynamic DNS)
- Running own email server (needs the domain)
- Actually running a site for someone to visit
- Basic convenience
Alibaba, The Chinese are the most trustworthy.
Just learned they support Omarchy. Fucking shit.
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