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Hi, I'm thinking of building a personal website about tech, privacy, open source, etc. Any recommendations about where can I buy domain? .com is taken, but everything else is not. Shuld I take .tech (few dolars more expensive) or something more basic?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you have a country-specific TLD (like .ca for Canada) I would buy that. Otherwise .co is not bad. I find most of the others look spammy.

I've used Namecheap for my domains for the past 15 years or so with no issues. Their hosting is terrible though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do note though that for privacy purposes, a .us domain is not the best idea. You must be a U.S. citizen or business and registrars may try to verify your identity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's terrible about their hosting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've had major downtime issues and their support was awful. Performance is also not what I'd expect based on their advertised specs.