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There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?

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[โ€“] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 34 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

I just bought an actual domain and use that ๐Ÿ˜…

As an added bonus, letsencrypt works with no effort.

[โ€“] karlthemailman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Same here. Well worth it for $10 a year

[โ€“] faultyaddress@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I bought domain from joker.com, 10 years for $33

[โ€“] priit123@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What? How they sell for so long?

[โ€“] faultyaddress@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I don't know but they do. I picked the cheapest name I could find and went with it.

Checked and they still do sell domains for 10y but price has gone up.

[โ€“] masterX244@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago

same. saved my ass already a few times when doing some reverseengineering voodoo. being able to set a valid https cert makes it easier to redirect apps than to bypass forced HTTPS. had to pretend to be a update server for something once and patching the URL was enough via getting a cert quickly (using DNS-01 challenge, no exposed ports ever)