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How private is namecheap? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/privacy
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First time website hoster here. I just need a simple, cheap website and I stumbled upon namecheap and their shared hosting/website builder.

As far as I can tell from what I've seen they seem good, but is there something I should know about privacy-wise?

Sorry if this post is naive, I'm not really sure where I should be looking.

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

Namecheap are fine in terms of registrar and offer DNS privacy (where your details won't appear on a whois), though they will provide it to law enforcement if requested; I recommend hosting your DNS on CloudFlare if you want to do a LetsEncrypt DNS challenge though, Namecheap got too slow for that a while back.

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

Thanks for the info. I don't plan on doing anything majorly illegal, just personal stuff. More interested for peace of mind, so the law enforcement compliance isn't a problem.

Sounds like I'll probably stick with them for now, thought I may switch to CloudFlare in the future. Also do you know if Namecheap's 'premium DNS' is fast enough for the DNS challenge? I don't think it is, but just checking you weren't referring to the free one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The CloudFlare free DNS is a thing that you can easily do; the issue appears to be with the namecheap API. It successfully creates txt records but they take longer to replicate than LetsEncrypt challenges are valid