I am in the hunt right now for a domain (I plan to use for email and such, meaning, things that would be tied to my legal person). As some of you know, by law in many places it is required to have a set of legally true information to register a domain (from name to house address, in case the domain needs to be verified to belong to a real person).

I was checking porkbun a second ago, and the privacy policy really does not give me confidence (they mention very clearly there is sale and ai training involved). I am from Europe so I would expect gdpr to be respected by default, however, they say I would have to send an email to get my rights and identify myself (I expect an Id upload which is not really a thing I want to do).

Considering all this, what are the better places for domains? I expect to pay more than porkbun, but if it people that do it right, so be it.

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
    7·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
    2·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    6·
    18 hours ago

    Domain registrars do id verification now? I’m also in Europe and the mail is only for sending me the reminder to pay

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Most do now, When I swapped from namecheap to porkbun they id checked me. It was surprising

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      17 hours ago

      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

    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Cloudflare is one of the largest surveillance operations in the world. They might not directly sell your data, but they are absolutely in a position to exploit your data and track your behavior. They should be avoided if privacy is a concern.

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      17 hours ago

      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

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      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

      • lemmingsareawesome@sh.itjust.works
        22·
        14 hours ago

        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”

        • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          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

          • rosahaj@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            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.