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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you have any recommendations on how to buy a domain?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but I used Namecheap. Porkbun is also recommended I think. Setting it up is not dead-brain simple, but Proton does a very good job on explaining it step by step I believe.

[โ€“] realaether 6 points 1 year ago

IIRC Cloudflare is the only registrar that doesn't mark up from wholesale prices, or something like that. Basically makes them cheaper than most other registrars. I think the point is that they can then sell you their other (related) services more easily โ€” the services that actually make them money.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use Porkbun for my domain. you can get a .xyz domain for only $2 for 1 year, though after 1 year its like $8 per year.

[โ€“] glitch1985 3 points 1 year ago

Google domains are cheap and easy to maintain....... oh wait.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using namesilo and it was pretty straight forward to set up. I just got it a couple days ago and no issues so far!