Not sure if this is the right place for this but I want to buy a domain and I would like to support floss if that is even a thing for domains.
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I want to buy a domain and I would like to support floss if that is even a thing for domains.
Before the GDPR made EU based domain name hosters no longer expose private data from customers, there were domain name hosters which would offer you protection of your private details. (The previous situation was actually very bad, exposing name, address, email address and phone number to the rest of the world. Spammers abused it). Lately whenever I lookup WHOIS information it looks like all private details of customers are hidden. I don’t know how things are outside EU. Here an example of a domain name hoster talking about changes due to GDPR : https://www.transip.eu/knowledgebase/entry/831-your-gdpr-privacy-rights-transip/
Unfortunately this only applies to people under GDPR. Currently we (non GDPR) can pay an extra dollar to hide WHOIS information, or maybe some registrars have it built into their price. Not sure if the WHOIS censorship was a result of the GDPR, or they improved upon other stuff too that us who don’t fall under GDPR miss out on. You do still need to put in a fair bit of information to the registrar most of the time though unfortunately.
I know Njalla exists, but they’re not a registrar, they’re a middleman between you and the registrar. Although it is far more expensive than most registrars, I believe they buy the domain outright. They accept a wide variety of payment options including various cryptocurrencies. But yeah, I don’t know of anything else, they are only registrars but I would take a libre registrar in a heartbeat if it was priced similar and was solid.