I have a curiosity. Would it be better to register a domain as a person or as an organization? Are there any major differences in liabilities associated with each entity? (And I'm thinking .ch and the like domains. I don't think for .com would make any difference.)
Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
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#42Speaking of gandi, a while ago, I ran into some problems logging in to their site, and I—finally—got this response from them by e-mail: Hello again pessimism, Our password field supports only passwords up to 16 characters at this time. All longer passwords are truncated. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Sincerely, [redacted] Tier 1 Tech Support Gandi US I checked in with @theharmonyguy who says…
123-reg in the UK go one better. Passwords on there have to be eight characters long. No more, no less, exactly eight characters. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
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#43This is getting a bit silly. Unless you are running a gambling, torrent or porn site, just get a .com and worry about more important things in your life. Asset seizure is something that drug dealers, not startups, should be worrying about.
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#44This is getting a bit silly. Unless you are running a gambling, torrent or porn site, just get a .com and worry about more important things in your life. Asset seizure is something that drug dealers, not startups, should be worrying about.
So, Jotform (to name just a recent one) was running a "gambling, torrent or porn site"? Right...
The only thing silly here is not taking into account all business risks. US-owned TLDs are very much now a risk.
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#45UAE and Palestine? Seriously? UAE has a questionable track record insofar as journalistic freedom is concerned. It ranks #112, below Liberia and South Sudan, in RSF's Press Freedom Index. What if one of the Emirs is offended by what I post on the site? Palestine ranks #153, not to mention you'd have to take Israel into consideration when you do anything Palestine-related. Gandi.net is an excellent registrar, but I'm…
Agree. And all of this is ridiculous anyway. A non-issue for the vast majority of startups who want to do something in the US. Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of? Not to mention the fact that the entire OP is based on the way things are TODAY and that assumes it's even accurate. Which of course it's not (just taking you…
> Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of?
The web's biggest sites right now (e.g. YouTube and Facebook) are doing things the U.S. government doesn't approve of. They haven't been shut down ... yet ... but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does?
My point is just that the way the U.S. gov't is going, no decent web application is safe from being taken down. Anything with user-generated content is basically wide open for seizure.
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#46Can anyone explain why these domains are usually so much more expensive that .com domains? I just looked at .se and most of those run almost $40/year. It seems like demand would have .com domains priced higher than these cc-TLDs.
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#47I take issue with the author's criticism of .is. They've recently told most of the world to go fuck themselves, and one of their members of parliament is a Wikileaks spokesperson. I'm thinking they're pretty pro-freedom.
You also get to run your servers off volcanic activity, which is pretty cool and ideal for any aspiring Blofeld, although it does sound potentially risky.
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#48Can anyone explain why these domains are usually so much more expensive that .com domains? I just looked at .se and most of those run almost $40/year. It seems like demand would have .com domains priced higher than these cc-TLDs.
There is very little variable cost to create one additional domain name, so it's hard to have a logical explanation for their pricing. All the TLDs have different beliefs about which price will maximize profit.
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#49Speaking of gandi, a while ago, I ran into some problems logging in to their site, and I—finally—got this response from them by e-mail: Hello again pessimism, Our password field supports only passwords up to 16 characters at this time. All longer passwords are truncated. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Sincerely, [redacted] Tier 1 Tech Support Gandi US I checked in with @theharmonyguy who says…
Speaking of their support, I can see why some people were avoiding Gandi because of it. I'm trying to transfer a domain (from SWITCH, no less) and am having issues. I emailed them a week and a half ago and heard back the next day saying they were looking into it. Still nothing, so I sent another support email two days ago and haven't heard anything. They have the most TLD offerings of any registrar I've seen (sans Go…
Their customer is abysmal. They never respond on Twitter—fair enough, other registrars do, though—and it took four days to get a response to why I couldn’t log in. I even had to go through weird escalations to higher “tiers” of support.
If someone knows a good non-American registrar with a wide selection of domains who also has two-factor authentication like Name.com, please let me know. Until then, I’ll probably just postpone the domain purchases.
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#50If you look at this as an uptime issue, it has the same answer as any other uptime issue. Redundancy. A single server isn't good for uptime because when it dies you're screwed. At the next level, a single data-center only gives you so much uptime because if that data center goes down you're screwed. Same thing here. Any single TLD isn't safe for any number of technical and political reasons. If you want to be safe, r…
Right, but your domain is your 'store front.' Depending on your customer-base, you could lose out when it comes time to switch domains from example.com to example.ca or example.co.au...