Itch.io Taken Down by Funko • Hacker News Board

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by midasz » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:56 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #5

bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

I'm with Namecheap and they're decent but one big minus is how inaccessible their API is, would put them on the bottom of the "do use" list.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by KingOfCoders » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:57 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #5

bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Namecheap has horrendous billing UI with their products, also not PDF so makes it hard for freelancers when you have many domains and your accounts want an PDF. Easiest is a registrar that mails you invoices in PDF.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TZubiri » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:58 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #5

bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

What's wrong with aws lmao

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by juped » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC

Everyone involved in this is terrible except itch.io; it's a shame litigation, the available method for redressing this, is often avoided due to the high expense.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TZubiri » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC

ailurooo wrote: post #2

ugh this kind of stuff just makes me wish DNS was less centralized, even though it's already incredibly uncentralized.. of course it's just all registrars just being a weak point.. as always

It is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by jarofgreen » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:00 AM UTC

tucnak wrote: post #8

paxys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Gandi?

They were sold to another company a year or two ago and now some people are a bit wary

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by haunter » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:01 AM UTC

Slight off topic but interesting that the post has similar interaction stats (replies and reposts/quotes) between Twitter and Bluesky except the likes which are 3x higher on the former https://files.catbox.moe/82x7ue.jpeg

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by viraptor » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:02 AM UTC

TZubiri wrote: post #15

ailurooo wrote: post #2

ugh this kind of stuff just makes me wish DNS was less centralized, even though it's already incredibly uncentralized.. of course it's just all registrars just being a weak point.. as always

It is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

It's federated, not decentralized. For decentralized you need something like https://ens.domains/

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by koito17 » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:02 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #5

bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Personally use Porkbun since Namecheap's API is poorly-documented and they attempted a KYC audit for purchasing a $100 domain.

I am fine with the identity verification, but their ticketing system seems to have sent all of my e-mail to their spam box, because they would never respond. I attempted opening tickets explaining the e-mail situation, but they wouldn't listen. In the end, I gave up and let them deactivate the account.

Moved to Porkbun, purchased the exact same domain (no KYC required!), and have been a happy user of their API for about two years now. They also have much more lax requirements for API usage compared to Namecheap. Porkbun also supports WebAuthn and logging in with a security key. It's overall a much nicer service than Namecheap.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:07 AM UTC

haunter wrote: post #17

Slight off topic but interesting that the post has similar interaction stats (replies and reposts/quotes) between Twitter and Bluesky except the likes which are 3x higher on the former https://files.catbox.moe/82x7ue.jpeg

Interesting - most Bluesky accounts, especially those related to gaming, are reporting higher engagement stats on Bluesky, at least relatively if not absolutely.