Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How to get a free .arpa domain

hawksley.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 20 posts

Re: How to get a free .arpa domain

#13

Post by RKearney »

As the post calls out, most certificate authorities will not issue certs against .arpa domains. I found this out the hard way when paying for CloudFlare's Advanced Certificates add-on for an .arpa domain I had successfully delegated and registered.

They return failures and exceptions when attempting to generate the certificate for the .arpa domain and then I spent months trying to get a refund (they are very slow to respond) and only caved once I threatened a chargeback for the service not working as advertised.

Re: How to get a free .arpa domain

#17

Post by LoganDark »

> feel free to provide fake information as it doesn’t verify any of it

Uhh... Please don't. This is how nice things get taken down due to abuse.

> This is handy because many (though not all) certificate authorities refuse to serve .arpa domains

IIRC, .arpa domains are based on locations in the address space. CAs are supposed to secure your connection to a specific entity, not only a specific location, so that's probably why.

Re: How to get a free .arpa domain

#18

Post by merpkz »

Hurricane Electrics brings back memories of first playing around with IPv6 many years ago. Thanks a lot to them for offering such a great service free of charge for anyone to learn about IPv6 networking. Sometimes I wonder don't they have a lot of abuse from those services with people using them as proxies or something

Re: How to get a free .arpa domain

#19

Post by pmkary »

LoganDark wrote: post #17

> feel free to provide fake information as it doesn’t verify any of it Uhh... Please don't. This is how nice things get taken down due to abuse. > This is handy because many (though not all) certificate authorities refuse to serve .arpa domains IIRC, .arpa domains are based on locations in the address space. CAs are supposed to secure your connection to a specific entity, not only a specific location, so that's proba…

Thanks for saying this.

Re: How to get a free .arpa domain

#20

Post by blackxploit »

RKearney wrote: post #13

As the post calls out, most certificate authorities will not issue certs against .arpa domains. I found this out the hard way when paying for CloudFlare's Advanced Certificates add-on for an .arpa domain I had successfully delegated and registered. They return failures and exceptions when attempting to generate the certificate for the .arpa domain and then I spent months trying to get a refund (they are very slow to…

[flagged]
Post reply on HN