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Which non-US domain registrar to use? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by Firipu@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I am running a NAS at home, Minecraft server and some other stuff.

I want to make it all easier to access by getting my own domain, both for myself and friends and family.

Will also use it for my mail address etc.

My main goal is reduce my dependency on US services for very obvious reasons.

What's a good non US dns registrar to use? Found a ton online, but it's my first time doing this and I'm a bit lost unfortunately.

Any help and/or advice is greatly appreciated.

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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

OVH no problems for years.

BUT choose domain that is also maintained by non-US organization.
Like national TLDs from the EU, or fancy like one., cloud., ...

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is .dev maintained by the US?

[-] streamer272@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It is, I just checked, by a subsidiary of google

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunate :(

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can easily check it by WHOIS:

$ whois dev.
% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org/
% This query returned 1 object

domain:       DEV

organisation: Charleston Road Registry Inc.
address:      1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
address:      Mountain View CA 94043
address:      United States of America (the)

# the rest of output omitted

And some hints gives Wikipedia: List of Internet top-level domains.

this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025

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