These days, I don’t remember the last registrar I’ve seen that does not provide at least some kind of basic hosting. Maybe they want to grow like all businesses, maybe just being a registrar doesn’t keep the lights on anymore. Not sure, but it definitely seems to be the thing most, if not all, do now.
Do you know if they still have to share you details as who owns the domain? Not that I’m up to anything sinister, just will be for a home server but still nice for anonymity and places like names.co.uk charge more for hiding those details.
i picked them partially because they offer obfuscation services to hide your ownership from public registration information. it is an extra charge per domain.
my long time fav is https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
cheap, easy, functional. run by a bunch of linux geeks with the idea you only pay for what you use.
This looks like they provide hosting services?
I believe a domain name provider are the folk that sell domain names.
These days, I don’t remember the last registrar I’ve seen that does not provide at least some kind of basic hosting. Maybe they want to grow like all businesses, maybe just being a registrar doesn’t keep the lights on anymore. Not sure, but it definitely seems to be the thing most, if not all, do now.
I wonder why we have to have registrars or to put it better I wonder why a person can’t buy a domain for life and own it.
they are both a registrar and host. i, for example host no sites with them. i only register domains here and use their dns.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains
Registrar. That’s the term. Thanks.
I’ll check out their pricing.
Do you know if they still have to share you details as who owns the domain? Not that I’m up to anything sinister, just will be for a home server but still nice for anonymity and places like names.co.uk charge more for hiding those details.
i picked them partially because they offer obfuscation services to hide your ownership from public registration information. it is an extra charge per domain.