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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Question after reading this new article : https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/criticism-as-dutch-domain-registry-plans-move-to-amazon-cloud/

My current preferences :

Not more expensive than two euros a month
Whois information cloaking
Not profiting from some Pacific Island money deal
Privacy friendly

Edit : Found a spreadsheet by EFF from 2017 which gives some insights : https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

.onion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Free, more secure, and only accessible by ~2% of Internet users

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Interesting choice, thanks. I guess for email with an onion domain I'd have to self host the email.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The .onion means it's an onion service. This requires a Tor connection both for the host and the users. And frankly, hosting an onion service is not exactly easy to do it right, due to additional security considerations. Many self hosting guides assume a typical residential connection or a rented VPS without an onion service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah but this way you can only communicate with other Tor users. Also the mail server can prolly easily leak your actual IP if you don't harden it well.