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   Joe (joe_0237@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:26:05 JST Joe

   Do not use #cloudflare thinking that you will be able to control your site. They are a dangerous company to work with, I've heard horror stories of big companies being threatened with brand new $100k bills. Now here I am as an individual, If you want to transfer you have to first allow them to proxy your traffic (eg MITM your site). If you do transfer a domain to them they take away your option to use your own nameserver, it costs 200 $/mo to get the feature back, its free everywhere else.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:26:04 JST 翠星石

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     @Joe_0237 Literally none - it's a big cartel.
     
     Although, there are some registrars where .com domains are $10 USD a year and DNS doesn't have arbitrary restrictions.
     
     Unfortunately adding your own nameserver is nonfree for all registrars, as doing so requires execution of proprietary JavaScript, although I'd love to be proved wrong.
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     Joe (joe_0237@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:26:05 JST Joe

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     Does anyone know of a user friendly registrar that is not abusive to its customers?