Topic: Buying a domain with name cheap using bitcoin (Read 521 times)

Namecheap is the perfect domain and web bhost to use for Cryptocurrency, you can pay for services, subscriptions and plans using Cryptocurrency you have a free Whois guard they offer it free forever, it's perfect for developers who wants to set up platform for the community, but unfortunately scammers and hackers are also using Namecheap for their shady sites, but over all great experience.

Sorry for late reply... For 10 years, I have never used my real information on namecheap regarding to domains/hosting and I had a lot of domains + higher plans of hosting. I think this is the least thing you have to worry about but problems may arise if you are using templates from envato and similar marketplaces. One of my domain was locked because of one theme which I had officially bought, so I suggest everyone to keep in mind such cases.

False information + whois guard is a good thing. They don't ask for KYC documents, so no way to know who you are. Just don't enter Bla Blabla as your full name and I think everything will be okay.

I forgot to mention before:  Since this topic was raised, I asked around with some people in the know with these things.

Apparently, Namesilo and Namecheap both allow outgoing transfers without exposing your WHOIS information.  Some registrars, notoriously GoDaddy, require that you expose your WHOIS information to transfer your domain away from them.  That is horribly crooked!

I have not verified this information myself.  DYOR.  Also, bitmover, I don’t want to bash Namesilo to you.  I think they were a much better choice than Namecheap; and now, you know other options that are specifically oriented toward “we don’t want to know your information!” levels of privacy—real privacy.

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Quote from: bitmover on October 28, 2020, 04:51:51 PM

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Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

— Edward Snowden

That’s a good one.

I myself used to argue that people who have “nothing to hide” should accept taking software-controlled network cameras and microphones in their bedrooms.

Then, I realized that they do just that—and they carry the same remote-eyes-and-ears-and-location-tracker at all times.

Of course, that is “voluntary”—for you—for now.

Today:  China.  Tomorrow:  Your country.

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Now I was going to write a long essay on the perils and frankly idiocy of carrying a surveillance device with closed source hard and software forged in the heart of the Evil Empires (commie and very commie), replete with references back to my own extensive oeuvre, some classical nudes and abstruse words, jumping down someone's throat who once said something in passing, but you'd probably scroll on by like the unmitigated savages you all are.

Though I may be retired, I must keep up my rep!

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Some people should learn to read the thread, or at least skim the beginning and the end before posting.

You should it's easy and all you want on a domain registrar are all here, I have 4 of my websites registered and hosted here in Namecheap I just transferred my host here because I'm having a hard time paying using Paypal, you don't have to undergo KYC some host are not asking this and Namecheap is one of them, this is one of the reason Crypto developers are only using Namecheap because the domain and the host are cheap and they offer a lot of free services along with your plan subscription.

This sum up the whole privacy discussion. Powerful people are concerned about their anonymity and privacy, and they tell us that we don't need it.

I like this one as well:

My perspective:  I don’t do anything illegal, so the only potential reason for any official investigation of me is harassment for too much free speech.  (Yes, that is a real possibility!)  But...

What about data breaches:  Do you trust the security of the registrar’s internal database, such ICANN systems as may have network access to that database, and every system in between?  Do you trust all employees with privileged network access at all relevant organizations?  Do you know how much hacked dox stuff is sloshing around on teh darkwebz, being traded between fraudsters and identity thieves?  (Not to mention the types who purport to offer hitman services.)

What about “marketing”, i.e., surveillance capitalism:  Have you read every word of the registrar’s legal terms and privacy policy?  Are you assured that the information you provide for WHOIS is, and forever will be, only and exclusively used for ICANN mandated purposes?  Even if (if) the registrar promises that, do you trust that promise?  Will you trust it tomorrow, if the registrar goes bankrupt or is acquired?

What about non-“official” criminals:  From behind Tor, I have sometimes angered people who claimed to have actual mafia connections.  That was probably just stupid empty bragging by them, but—why should I take that risk?  Over the years, on the Internet, I have also sometimes been treated to death threats—and to lurid and graphic fantasies about what somebody out there wanted to do to my real or imaginary wife/girlfriend/children (none of your business if I have these things or don’t), my mother (sorry, she’s dead), my dog (no, he will bite you in half!), etc., etc.  Why should I take the risk that any of them could be serious?

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More criminals:  What about “SWATting”?  Do you really want to bet that the scum who do this cannot obtain your information from your registrar:


If they don’t know who you are, they can’t have your information hacked, leaked, or otherwise stolen—used for surveillance-capitalism marketing and profiling purposes—or otherwise abused.

Practical privacy requires the principle of least privilege.  Disclose information only on a need-to-know basis.  The only information that is truly safe is the information that you never give out in the first place.

If you are using Tor, it means that you probably want some reasonably strong privacy.  But using Tor to establish a pseudonym, and then giving your real dox info to a registrar under so-called “WhoisGuard” or whatever, is like stabbing a condom repeatedly with a fork, and then using it to have sex with an individual who is known to be HIV-positive.  It’s just a bad idea from start to finish.  With all due apologies for the graphic analogy:  I really want to drive the point home here!

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I have had passable experience with them, though these things sometimes change over time.  Their customer service is good, and their prices are some of the best in the market.  I have heard that if you use a payment card (even a legitimately purchased prepaid debit card) plus Tor, they will lock you out of your account, and you may lose money/domains.  I can’t confirm that, and it never happened to me; I have only used Bitcoin with them.  —You’re welcome. :-)


Another problem is that Satoshi could not pay with Bitcoin before he invented it, published the Bitcoin software, and publicized it with a website. ;-)


Thanks.  I know of Anonymous Speech, but cannot report on them.  I will look into Katzglobal someday; it is always good to have more options handy.

If they dont know who you are, then they cant tell anyone .

That public whois protection will basically protect your email from spammers,  not your privacy for whomever want to investigate you.

I am not sure now, but Namecheap and Namesilo it is also not mandatory to provide personal data, they both have Whois data protect for free, plus using Bitcoin as payments method can be quite anonymously.
btw. what is the main advantage in that even the registrar does not know who owns the domain? Of course, we talking about legal, non-fraud service on them.
 

This is the most important about  Njalla.  They do not want to know who are buying their domains.

Sadly I already bought the domain using namesilo. I didn't know about that opition. THanks for sharing.

I didn't know Njalla, too bad that this site did not exist 10 years ago
There are also Anonymousspeech (or a name similar) and Katzglobal working similar but I just know by name. Never used and don't know their reputation.
Perhaps autistici.org too. I just use their email service but I remember something similar.
Nevermind, I checked the platform and what they offer is totally different. It's a blog platform

That sounds like you want Njalla (onion—when v3!?).  It is about twice to tenfold the price; but they are Tor/VPN friendly (no evil-IP account lockout horror stories), and they do not ask any IRL identifying information whatsoever.  No need to make up fake info—no risk of having domains cancelled for fake info.  If you really want, you can even avoid giving a throwaway e-mail address by instead using a throwaway Jabber/OTR address.  They don’t want to know who you are.

The way that works is that legally, they own “your” domain, such that real identifying info of a corporate entity in an exotic jurisdiction satisfies the ICANN doxing requirements that apply regardless of WHOIS-hiding.  The way I see it, that is strictly better than using fake info!  Anonymous parties with fake registrant data have no effective recourse against a bad registrar, anyway; if you are not clearly identifiable and prepared potentially to sue in court, nominal legalities present a distinction without a difference.  You must repose trust in the registrar.  I would prefer to trust a registrar who respects my privacy.

But if you really want, you can enter your real name, snailmail address, and telephone number for the registrant.  This will result in your name being exposed in the public WHOIS, which some people actually want (especially “domainers”).  The form for that is buried somewhere on the domain management page, after you have already registered the domain anonymously.  It is strictly opt-in.

Obviously, they do Bitcoin, including Lightning—also Monero and fully-shielded Zcash, and some oddball WTF shitcoins such as Paypal.  They never used Shitpay.

I have no affiliation with Njalla, other than as a customer.  I am always looking for more options for this class of service; but everything else in my current awareness for fully anonymous domain registration is either even more expensive than Njalla, or of unknown reputation.  For my part, I welcome suggestions.


Is “KYC” so normalized nowadays, in the sense of “the new normal”, that this is now a normal question?

“Know Your Customer” is a banking-specific propaganda euphemism based in idiocy about so-called “money laundering”.

Glad to know that is okay now. Google always helps
btw. when you logged in file manager, in the top right corner, you have settings button. When you click there, among other things, you can select the option to hide or show dotfiles like .htaccess, then you can have easy access to them.

Thanks, that solved.
I was trying to find the .htaccess file but couldn't find it. Just opened it today and there it was. Working perfectly now.

I find you add a line in .htaccess
whether this did not solve the problem? as far as I can see that should be enough

Hello examplens ,

Can you help me on how to enable CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing)?

I just wanted to make a very simple code like this for a navigation bar


Then i get the error that Cors is not enabled. I tried to enable it in cpanel but i couldn't find any option related to that in cpanel or cloudflare.

I was looking also for .htacess file but couldn't find. I Thought this might be something related to your server setup .? I am a total newbie at this.

I usually buy the domain here https://www.namecheap.com/promos/ very good for buying the Domain you need

Thanks, but one of the biggest golas of my project is to learn: mainly web development (bootstrap is obviously the first) , python and about blockchain analysis.

I already learned a lot by doing those animations and tables here, i plan to do more stuff like that, but not about bitcointalk and not races anymore
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/updated-bitcoinbitcointalkorg-stats-animation-all-in-one-thread-5256463

while I am in the mood and bootstrap is a burden to you, draw me sketch up how you imagined the page to look, buttons, forms etc... I have paid a licence for one bootstrap creator software and I can compile blocks for you. Then you need only to edit with your content. 

I am still struggling with botstrap and doing a few things, and I will add some interesting projects there soon and I will tell everyone about this new web site

I would like to thank everyone here who helped me chose a domain.
Specially examplens, who added my website to his server.

I bought the domain using namesilo,  cheaper than name cheap and paid with BITCOIN

Woohoo, bitmover's website is online  

I continue to talk with @bitmover so I didn't want to write here either. Still...


I have enough experience with all of these three registrars from the discussion.
About Godaddy, mk4 in the previous post says everything you need to know. From biggest to the worse registrar. End of the story.
A few years ago, one domain (very TLD and great name) expired, after just three days they occupied the domain and asking $700 to buy back domain.
Just three months ago, I asked Namesilo to get back one domain 40 days after expired time. Guess what, I got back this domain in just one day from redemption period. Of course with regular $8.99 price.
Everything is fine if you just register domain, setup it once and forget about. But if you handle 70+ domains from 30+ different people and many different requires, you trying to find best service for your money.

As another alternative I can personally recommend this service -> SteadyTurtle.com. They are no longer as active on the forum as they used to be, but I can confirm that everything is working flawlessly, payment can be done in BTC and few other crypto + PP - and price for mini hosting plan is just $1.95 per month -> https://www.steadyturtle.com/web-hosting.php

While examplens experienced a very poor support with namecheap so far they're good to me, regarding questions and also in any help I need, but never had same experience on late/forget to renew the domain though.

Regarding the cheapest host in there, its something on their shared hosting plan.

Regarding godaddy, never tried them since there are lots of negative reviews on their service also with the previous company I work with had the same problem with them.

As a person who's handled dozens of websites and have tried GoDaddy, I can assure you that I will bring my despise of GoDaddy to my deathbed. Their service simply sucks regardless how big their name is.

Hey that's very nice of you.

I am not sure exactly about what will it evolve too, but for now it won't demand much.  I want to create some blockchain analysis using python /machine learning. I hope I can do something cool, but not sure yet. I will also try to analyze bitcointalk data.

As data is already hosted somewhere else it won't demand much.

I will register my domain and get in touch with you when everything is ready . Thank you.

I don't know if I'm late with the information but I must recommend Namesilo rather than Namecheap. they have everything you need. No need any KYC or anything, accept BTC, PP. Whoisguard is free also, although I haven't tried for .uk, .ca domains... I think they are by far the cheapest domain registrar.
The reason why I migrate all my domains from Namecheap is that very poor support if you accidentally forget to renew the domain they take it over immediately and asking some large amounts to buy back domain. I had a very frustrating experience with them.

@bitmover I have paid shared hosting if your website is not overly demanding I can add it to my server. I have some free space. 

As above said, I don't think they will require any sort of KYC documents. I have a few domains on namesilo which I purchased with BTC but never faced any kind of KYC requirements. If you want, you can use namesilo too. Till now, I have faced no problem at all with them and their support is good.

GoDadd? looks like a 100% promo name and so

Never tried NameCheap to buy domain for years ever since because I use GoDaddy. But it's a good thing that NameCheap now has Bitcoin accepted as payment method for buying domains once and for all. It's all about mainstream adoption.

I just don't know if GoDaddy would ever follow the footsteps of NameCheap in adopting Bitcoin. I'm currently using Paypal to buy and renew my domains under GoDaddy.

Well, I bought very cheap hosting on their site last year it is their black Friday promo but since today is not November yet you can get another promo from Namecheap.

Check this first https://www.namecheap.com/promos/

If you are planning to build an unlimited website you can get cheap stellar plus web hosting from here https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/domain-and-hosting-bundle/

It includes a free domain or you can try the shared hosting from here https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/

Thanks

I have one more question.
I was looking at hosting prices, they are more expensive than I tought.

If I want a small page, not too many megabytes of data... what is the cheapest way to do so?

I think no one could bypass it by paying but if you break any terms or didn't respond from WhoisGuard there's a possibility that they will reveal you're true identity.

Read this TOS quoted below.

thanks, this is what I was looking for.

So WhoisGuard is a free service. I can give them some contact information but it won't be public visible.
But can someone bypasss whoisguard just by paying something, right?

Never I sent any document for a KYC compliance. However, I advise you to give real information otherwise a registrar can cancel your domain (you never know if, for example, someone reports you or something else). And if you don't reply to their email asking questions they will directly suspend or cancel your domain.

If the problem is the public WHOIS details, Namecheap offers privacy protection service (WhoisGuard) for free, except for .uk, .ca, and probably .london

no need to do kyc to buy a domain, you can put any information for info.

I have a few domains from Namecheap and hosting services, I bought them all with bitcoin, but I never experienced or got any email from Namecheap about KYC.

So I think you are free to buy a domain on Namecheap with bitcoin without giving your identity, but they ask for this information below.

- Registrant Contact
- Administrative Contact
- Technical Contact

You can put any information about this the same as mine or you can use "WhoisGuard Protection" if you don't want to show your true identity.

Hello
I think I will buy a name cheap domain using bitcoin.

I know some members here have a domain registered by name cheap. Is it fully anonymous? Do I have to give any documents kyc? Thanks.