Domain Name Registration
Can anyone suggest a good company to register a domain with or does it not really matter? Thanks.
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It doesn't really matter, just avoid godaddy.
I can recommend: https://www.gandi.net
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What's is the problem with Godaddy?
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/0253207/godaddy-backs-sopa
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/25/1452251/go-daddy-loses-over-21000-domains-in-one-day
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/1312259/the-godaddy-saga-continues
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/09/10/190247/godaddy-goes-down-anonymous-claims-responsibility
http://apache.slashdot.org/story/13/08/12/2236256/apache-web-server-share-falls-below-50-percent-for-first-time-since-2009
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On 2013-08-19 03:31, name at domain wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good company to register a domain with or does
> it not really matter? Thanks.
I deal directly with Tucows (OpenSRS).
You may also want to ask whoever you choose if they accept Bitcoin.
Cheers,
Fabian
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I can 2nd gandi.net. We actually ran into security issues with dotster. Though I'd still suggest dotster over godaddy any day. Fortunately we transfered to gandi.net the important domains years ago. gandi.net doesn't just give access to your domain/account to anybody (I can vouch for that as we ran into the same security issue with them and they repelled said attackers, ie no action without a court order basically, was there response to said attacker, which is the proper response, and I'm pretty sure there security is better too, besides just this).
Thanks for the suggestions. Currently I use Dreamhost but I'm wondering if they are reliable after lavabit. My thinking is since they are so big they are probably being scrutinized closely.
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It really depends on the type of content your hosting, who your enemy is, etc.
Some content is better off hosted in Russia under a .ru domain whereas other types of content is better off hosted in the US.
As an example if your trying to promote hate/Nazi memorabilia/white supremacist stuff/holocaust denial/etc kind of stuff the US is the perfect place for it.
If your trying to distribute software cracks, cracking materials, certain types of pornographic/or nearly pornographic materials, music/video/piracy related materials, and similar Russia may be a good place to host it-or one of the other countries with close ties (particularly those pre-1990).
If your trying to post materials that blemish a western government it may be best to post them on a .onion site or leak them via Tor to the media.
If your posting materials that no governments anywhere will accept (there isn't much out there you can't find some government somewhere willing to accept it in some form or another) a .onion site is the way to go.
There have been attacks on Tor/.onion sites/major .onion hosts recently. However, if your extremely tech savvy, AND paranoid they wouldn't have impacted you. Anybody who was following the advice of the Tor project would have had an updated version of the Tor Browser Bundle. They would have been unaffected. Anybody who was paranoid would have been on a system setup such that it would have prevented the attack on even the older impacted version of the Tor Browser Bundle should the Tor Browser Bundle not been patched at the time of the attack.
I have yet to see an attack on the Tor Browser Bundle which would have worked on any secure environments which included Tor that I've setup. I'm pretty uninteresting though as far as the NSA/FBI/etc go. Unless that is they start attacking free software/Tor itself/etc.
I just want to have my own domain for email purposes.
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You probably won't have a problem no matter who you choose. The issue people would generally have here is supporting companies that are hostile to user freedoms/users in other ways/ or otherwise roll over to government/corporate intimidation. Every .com, .net, and .org domain amongst others is controlled indirectly by the US government. It doesn't matter if your using gandi.net (a French company) or a US registrar if your domain is .com, .net, or .org (amongst others). I think Gandi.net is better at protecting users from other non-governmental and non-corporate entities. Where you host probably doesn't matter much either because of the nature of the internet. Your mail is going to end up on thousands of different machines scattered around the world.
Hosting it yourself does appear to offer some legal protections in the United States. Difficult to do though. I'd suggest reading up on privacy issues at the eff.org website.
Does the EFF have a wiki?
I did one list with some services here: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Icaro
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Pamela Jones of Groklaw (recently shuttered, similar response as lavabit, ie they closed down in response to government actions) suggested kolab for email: https://mykolab.com/
Apparently it is hosted in Switzerland where there are strong privacy laws. With the nature of email though there really isn't any way to keep it truly private when the US & UK (and a few others) have tapped major routes. There may be a few instances where your communications isn't as easily trappable between users of the same email provider hosted within Switzerland due to the email never leaving the network. However beyond those rare circumstances it is best to assume your privacy is non-existent as far as the government(s) are concerned.
This doesn't really answer your question as I don't know if kolab will let you connect a domain to there services or not. Might be a company to look into though.
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On 2013-08-20 16:35, name at domain wrote:
> Pamela Jones of Groklaw (recently shuttered, similar response as
> lavabit) suggested kolab for email: https://mykolab.com/
Interesting.
Looks like a ver complete and functional package, includin sync wit
Thunderbird/Icedove and Android amon others:
http://kolab.org/clients
I noticed the Android client recently showed up on F-droid:
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/at.dasz.KolabDroid
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I use Mykolab and think it is one of the better public options out there. I'd rather pay $10/month and have some basis privacy along with no ads. But of course if the lines are tapped what can one do. But I also feel a philosophical need to not give my services to companies like google, etc. who willingly cooperate with the authorities with little or no opposition.
Mykolab offers WebDav and will be offering XMPP accounts in the future. Their TOS also seems to be pretty good. The only thing I haven't seen is actual web hosting but you can use their email/kolab services with your own domain.