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For English words that would work I guess. Here in EU a .de would also obviously point to something German which wouldn't be the intention.
Why even support EU users though with all the GDPR overhead? Unless you are a multinational who doesnt care about GDPR overheads, best not to target the EU market isnt it?
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Make the startup name something ending in .de and use a .de domain. The "TLD is part of the name" is also cool, and .de is reliable. e.g.: starma.de
.de actually has some tight requirements on it e.g. you need to include an "Impressum" on any hosted sites that states the name and address of a person responsible for the website
And if you're a company you already have to publish a contact for legal matters anyway.
The only situation where an imprint doesn't already exist are scammers and personal sites, and personal sites don't need an imprint (if you make money with ads, it's not personal).
That's a horrible situation, and one I'd encourage everyone to try to avoid - register production critical domains with a company that provides live phone support and stick with tried and true TLDs. Yeah, it may cost more, but this story just illustrates that you're staking your entire company on a $15/yr service, and you get what you pay for. Even if you want to run your marketing/landing page/etc off a .io or other…
Yes. This is why I use iwantmyname.com
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Yep, great ransom plan! 1. They do not need to pay you. You have zero chance of getting paid. 2. They can easily identify you as a suspect (even with foreign company or whatever) and the police can investigate further. So you risk going to jail, with no upside.
I know everyone thinks police are going to investigate and that I’m definitely going to prison, but the sad reality is they probably won’t and I’d probably never see a jail cell. They might look into it, maybe even setup a sting operation, but then in the end nothing might come of it anyway. Trust me, I know of a ex-cofounder in a previous who company who took off and disappeared with $175k from the company bank acco…
You're not making any sense. You started this entire thread by talking about how you'd hold this $billion+ company's domain ransom for tens of thousands of dollars per year, so your sad tale of woe about how you couldn't afford an attorney to chase down an embezzler is irrelevant.
In the UK, I wouldn't touch 123Reg with a stick because I know their support is terrible. I would however use Gandi or AWS as I know their support is decent.
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Ceremonies that aren't critical have a higher likelihood of being skipped, forgotten or ignored...
LetsEncrypt chose 3 months. Maybe that’s a hint for us that frequent renewals are better.
My registrar suspended my domain because an abusive user was using a subdomain for phishing. They told me they can't inform me first of abuse so I can deal with it; they'll suspend the domain immediately. Who's a good registrar that will contact me first if they get an abuse report?
Google to see who handles github.io, one figures all sorts of bad crap must be going on in their subdomains, even if they do try to police it.
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One of the reasons I use Namecheap is because I've had good experiences in this realm. I get domain renewal and WhoisGuard notices a month before, a week before and on the day of expiry itself. Namecheap then always keeps expired domains in a grace period status for about two weeks where I can still renew after expiration. About a day before they're completely unavailable for renewal, I'll also get an email from Clou…
>Namecheap then always keeps expired domains in a grace period status for about two weeks where I can still renew after expiration. That is standard behaviour for a domain-registrar, when a domain expires. When a domain expires the previous owner can re-register it during the grace period, after that for an extra fee it can be renewed in the redemption-period. Finally just before a domain is available for re-registra…
Registrar: Who you registered the domain with
Registry: The company that owns the tld