Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login
Njalla – A privacy aware domain registration service (njal.la)
65 points by Tomte on Sept 16, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments




If you like see or link to past discussions: press the "past" link at the top of the page so you can make your list more complete. Currently this exact same article is listed there 7 times. You are welcome :)


OP said discussion though, not past submissions. And they are correct, linking the only other submission with any comments.


I guess this is cheaper than having a Panamanian law firm handle domain name registrations amongst their other privacy-focused services.


Does it work like a proxy that you owns your domain through them so you don't have to use your own name and contact info? If that's true, I think the extra dollars they charged might worth it.


It seems so. From the home page:

"When you buy a domain in our system, we're actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain, it's not an ownership by proxy as found with all other providers. However, you will still have the full control over the domain name. You can either use our information, our nameservers or you can go with your custom data."


Why would I use this rather than some other domain privacy service?


I'm wondering the same.

>If you use our service in a way that affects anyones health or safety, we reserve the right to suspend your service.

The only possible reason I'd be interested in hearing about a service that has dozens of well known alternatives with much better reputations, is a guarantee that my domain would never be removed, nor my privacy compromised, even if the current mgmt. in charge of the company didn't agree with my site's political views.

Or in other words, are you guys going to buckle when the mob demands my white supremacist* or misogynistic site (as determined by a random tweet) be removed?

*I don't have a site like this, just using the comparison due to the whole Stormfront fiasco.


In fairness, many well-known domain privacy services will hand out your identity and contact information to anyone who sends a sufficiently lawyerly-sounding letter demanding that they do so. So there's lots of room for improvement. But I have no particular reason to trust this company, and furthermore, their marketing copy sounded like they were offering something beyond the current state of the art in domain privacy.


In that sort of scenario there are now two actors who can buckle; njalla (the reseller) _and_ the actual domain provider. The advantage of this is that I can register a domain without anyone knowing it was me.


once you have the domain, how to find a server/host for your site that will also respect your privacy ??


gandi.net ;)




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: