Yeah, I’m not buying into your trolling. Go somewhere else.

Interesting how you feel the need to disingenuously misrepresent my point.

What registrar was that? Were they as big as Cloudflare? How exactly did they “go tits up”? Isn’t the situation you describe a completely different scope from an individual’s usecase? It’s also an anecdotal point of data without including the full context of how common that situation is. “It happened to me once, and I have heard stories” does not necessarily mean it’s common enough for everyone to prepare for every time. I’ll remain skeptical of the

Mainly, though, I’m not saying it’s a bad idea in total. I just think that for someone who is inexperienced with DNS management and self-hosting, those types of concerns are already unlikely and just keeping the environment simple and cost less has far more value than being prepared for unlikely scenarios. It could even prevent self-inflicted issues by keeping it simple, which would be far more likely than Cloudflare’s infrastructure creating a problem that they have to remediate themselves.

If anything, the true argument for risk mitigation would be to have multiple DNS servers for redundancy.

I just don’t believe that, in this type of usecase, it’s worth pressing for and that there’s more of an argument to keep it simple.

Additionally, you can leave out trying to use your credentials and a hypothetical group of people to make your argument for you. It makes it seem like you’re trying to talk down.

I get that you’re likely exaggerating by saying “it’s no extra work”, but managing another account is markedly extra work. It will also cost extra because Cloudflare does not add any markup for registration, which is why they are the cheapest registrar.

I think the convenience and reduction of cost greatly outweighs the highly unlikely situation where “something goes fucky”. If it does, then what? You can’t make DNS updates for a little while?

The most likely reason to get locked out is billing issues, or maybe you lost your login information or something like that, which is going to be the same risk regardless of who your registrar is. Otherwise you’d have to be involved in some sort of legal issue associated with your domain and that is a much deeper issue than can be solved by simply changing nameservers.

I noted that this was something added automatically by Ghost, the blogging platform the website is hosted on.

However, ultimately there is no good way to discern if a link like that is not an affiliate link or a non-anonymous tracking link, particularly for the average user. Particularly when the link does not include nofollow on the anchor tag.

You’ll be fine to move them to Cloudflare.

What the other user is describing would be an extremely rare scenario, and you should be able to change registrars in that case anyway.

There’s really not much of any practical benefits of that kind of excessive “risk mitigation”.

Yeah, I think the title is just bait to get more clicks. Leveraging legitimate fear for what Trump’s administration is doing to garner more clicks is pretty scummy.

It’s also ironic that the premise they are playing on to write this article is anti-trump, but then they go on to list Protonmail even though the CEO has been kicking Trump’s boots.

Edit - Oh, look at that… a referral link to Proton.

They also use GoDaddy for their domain registrar. No one who runs a website and uses GoDaddy should be trusted to provide any reliable advice on anything tech related.

Okay. What the fuck?

*Again - no affiliate links. You can count on that, for every post on this blog. I don’t profit from you as a reader in any way beyond your direct support, if you so choose.

Then what the fuck is this?

Edit again - Apparently their site is a Ghost blog, which has a feature that adds that referral parameter automatically. It’s called “outbound link tagging”. At least it was not intentional, but it does show more evidence that this person should not be relied on for good information.

I find their website so awful and painful to use. Everything is difficult to find and just takes longer to accomplish than nearly anywhere else. I bought one domain from them once and will never use them again.

I’m not sure what the consequences are for ignoring it, but it would violate the ICANN RAA to lock a person out of being able to transfer their domain except for legal reasons like evidence of fraud or a court order. Sure, they can terminate your account on their services but they can’t prevent you from transferral without violating their agreement with ICANN.

It would be a weird scenario that you’re describing that would be unusual and exceedingly rare. You would need to be directly connected to something highly illegal for that to happen, not just a normal user.

Summary for those who can’t watch at the moment?

I’m not sure how to best link communities. Voyager and the site in browser seem to work different. So, I’m kinda playing around with it.

But yeah, that thread explains why I’m asking. I wouldn’t have really paid that much attention if they didn’t start responding with rude comments to anyone who simply brings up that they use burner accounts to make posts.

Yeah, I actually had that originally but I changed it for reasons.

Yeah, for sure. This is a new development, but their pattern shows that they will be using all Lemmy instances they can for this. This started on Lemmy.world, for example.

Still, separately from the breaking of ToS, I just wanted to get a better understanding of why someone would even spend that much time creating burner accounts. It seems far more effort than it’s worth for any possible privacy benefits, unless I’m missing something. That’s why I’m asking here.

I’m just talking about sharing memes, for example

I agree, but I wanted to get other people’s opinions. This user is now following me and downvoting my posts. Even in this very thread.

Sure, but that’s based on text posts. If all you do is post images, would there really be anything to track?

Oh, maybe. It’s rather confusing if that’s so.

Right. I’m not talking about the free service. I’m talking about the paid domain with “unlimited DNS records”. That just seems so weird and kind of a red flag. It seems I can’t find information about that without an account, either. Also weird and a red flag. But maybe that info is just buried in their site somewhere in the not-so-great design.

“unlimited DNS records”??

That’s like saying “I bought a house and I get unlimited door opens”

If you buy a domain you have full access and control over all of it.

A .com domain should only cost around $13/yr USD, and other TLDs can be even cheaper. There’s really no good reason to use some service that limits control and access just to save so little.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/duck-dns