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OP is talking about a domain registrar, I can't imagine location makes a bit of difference since no traffic is going through them.
Hey, ping matters when you're trying to buy a domain before someone snipes it from you
Interesting, I was hesitating about this. So if I register a domain and use it for reverse proxy with ssl and all. At no point does it traffic to the registrar or other part?
I am really not familiar with how domains work behind the scene, so apologies if its a dumb question.
No, the registrar just registers the domain for you (duh). You can then change the DNS recods for this domain and these records will propagate to other DNS servers all around the world. Your clients will use some of these DNS servers to lookup the IP address of your server and then connect to this IP.
The traffic between your clients and server has nothing to do with your domain registrar.
Ahhhh i see know, thanks for the explanation!
You don't "use" the domain for reverse proxy but a server. Where the server is located at matters. While you can get a domain and a server from the same hoster both still are different things.
Think of a telephone number (domain) and a phone (server).
Thanks for the analogy ๐
Correct, the registrar simply holds the domain for you, and points it to whatever DNS service you use.
Once that's done, the domain DNS server just replies with the IP for DNS records, so no traffic actually passes through either the registrar or DNS server.