Well. The domain registrar I've used for years, gandi, has gone through a series of ownership changes and has drastically raised rates on #domains. Looking for a new home that is privacy-respecting.
Several of them seem to not let you run your own nameservers anymore (ugh). #gandi offered to let them run the #nameservers, let me run the primary and they run the secondary, or run it all myself. I always had them as secondary and that worked quite well. Anyone else still do this? #askfedi
If a @jgoerzen, I rent the domain from NameSilo with my primary authoritative and use ns-global.zone as the secondary, but it’s unfortunately behind clownflare like most other big registrars. Haven’t tried but I found NearlyFreeSpeech.NET which is a bit more expensive but has a clean web UI (of both clutters and trackers). It’s unclear whether it let one register an authoritative name server though.
@jgoerzen I didn't do much research, but I ended up with Mythic Beasts as a registrar and Hetzner's hosted DNS server providers. I could've chosen to run my DNS servers myself, but I'm lazy and like the Hetzner has an API to update zones.
(I used MB a long time ago, then moved to Gandi for the DD discount, and now moving back. Using Hetzner for other things as well, for years. Familiarity made the choices easy.)
@liw@jgoerzen interestingly, i tried mythic-beasts as well and they seem like good people, but they're basically "just" an OpenSRS reseller, so you can cut the middlemen and get much cheaper prices there yourself, challenge is dealing with the byzantine OpenSRS control panel
@Anarcat Well I do run bind in a VM, or did you mean using a cloud service for DNS itself? If so, which one?
My hesitancy with those are generally two-fold:
How very much harder it is to make changes on some web UI than in text files I can edit with sed and track with git;
How difficult it is to migrate to some other service. For domains with only a couple of A records, it's not a big deal, but I have this obsession with not breaking links since 2000 and my zone file is complicated.
@jgoerzen i did some research here and somehow ended up as an OpenSRS reseller, mainly becaue of their broad TLD coverage (porkbun doesn't have .at) https://anarc.at/services/dns/#autres-fournisseurs out of this, i think dnssimple and easydns might have secondary
@Anarcat Thank you. And interesting article there, thanks for that also.
Actually, I should have said: more important than secondary are a stable platform and a reasonable ToS and privacy. Gandi seemed to be above average on the latter, at least a few years ago (not sure if that's the case now)
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