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Anyone got any thoughts on, praises of, and criticisms of Njalla? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by lemuria@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For those unaware, Njalla is an anonymous domain registrar though I'm hoping many of you already know.

What are your thoughts on Njalla? I've got a domain with them already and renewal is coming up this August, but I'm kinda feeling doubt with their Trustpilot reviews.

Is Trustpilot even accurate?
Who are all those one-star reviewers?
Is Njalla a scam? Has anyone here had good experiences with them?

The website there is just my personal website. There's not much "shady" stuff on it (lemuria.ph).

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm on PorkBun now, but I've used Njalla for a few years and had no issues with them. The reason I switched was simply because I wanted to own the domain, because with Njalla the domain isn't actually yours, it's registered to Njalla. Note that this is by design, in the sense that when someone looks up the domain, they won't get your info, but Njalla's instead. After a while, I've gotten less comfortable with the idea of someone else owning the domain I paid for, so I switched.

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But you never truly "own" a domain anyway, you just rent it via the registrars. The registrars and registries can take it away from you at any moment anyway.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ugh. Then I guess it's time to reconsider my registrar again.

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago

Why, PorkBun is great?

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Actually, you need to go build a time travel machine and recreate the Internet and all its infastructure from scratch if you want to have true ownership of your domain. Or you know, just reinvent the Internet in a premodern society or something, idk.