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Never buy .xyz (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found that it had been reported to xyz as abuse, and they must have done zero investigation whatsoever before serverholding my domain. I thought about opening a ticket with xyz to get my domain back, but realized that I no longer wish to buy from some shitty company that will take down any site without warning. Bought a .com domain since they are somewhat reputable, and I would advise everyone here to never buy a .xyz domain. Angry rant over.

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[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Shit. I have my peraonal domain hosted on .xyz for email. Guess time to migrate. Any TLD suggestions?

[-] hertg@infosec.pub 12 points 2 years ago

Most email providers will automatically put emails coming from .xyz to spam. I'd advise against using any "new TLDs", if you can. But if you must, avoid those that are frequently used for spamming. A lot of spam detectors will already score your emails as suspicious just for the TLD.

See for example, https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/pds/20_ntld.cf

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

No wonder why some reported my mail fall into spam dispite I rarely sent any. God. I had it for almost 10 years already, and migrating would be painful.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 8 points 2 years ago

If you live in Europe, .eu

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

If you live on the Cook Islands you get to use .co.ck!

[-] Lemzlez@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

.eu and your local tld are often quite a bit cheaper too!

[-] tills13@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Buy your country's local domain and support the local economy.

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any UK registrar recommended?

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -3 points 2 years ago

Most of the entire internet cannot run without Cloudflare for a reason. Just buy directly from the source.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

Cloudflare is not the source…

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