Hi! Thinking about registering a new domain for homelab setup. Not quite sure which registrar to go with but have heard good things about Porkbun here on lemmy. But, do people fill in their actual real name, and details for these sorta things? Geuninly curious, don’t want to end up on bad terms with a company. But on the other hand im just going to use this for my homelab and dont see the “need” to give away my details for this sorta thing.

Let me know how you guys do it :)

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    If you care about keeping your domain enough that you don’t want there to be an excuse for someone to take it from you, then you use your real info, and choose a registrar that only exposes a proxy contact in your WHOIS entry.

    If you don’t care about losing your domain, then you can use fake contact info.

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      .ch domains come with domain privacy by default. Since whois entries don’t include personal information. Also whois request are only doable through the official registry and only reveal the registrar and technical information and not personal ones.