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@JoshBent Working on it :). It's not the domain name you suggested yet but I'll reveal which one once I set up the server tomorrow
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@px06 Fair point but imo privacy shouldn't be something premium. I can pay it now but when I studied, every euro was a big deal for me.
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@linuxxx I agree with you but the sad reality is, privacy costs money. We have to invest in privacy to really get it, good examples would be VPN, because even through internet should be safe and private. We cannot openly use it without either being monitored or being blocked. That being said, I'm happy that whois guard even exists because it's absolutely absurd that by default registrar's expect people's entire information to be accessible with a single click.
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@px06 Well tbh I only pay for VPN and my email service. (as for privacy things)
My usual domain name provider makes it as easy as creating an anonymous profile within your account and changing the domain holder to that, all free of charge. -
@linuxxx Mind sharing who this provider is? I often buy domain names and don't like to go through the pain of filling info in and then adding a whois guard.
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@px06 It's a dutch one but hereby: vimexx.nl :)
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@linuxxx nice, excited that you did pick the idea up so quickly and waiting to see the reveal of it! regarding the whois, yeah its like ~1$ or something with namecheap per year, so really not anything I worry about ever, but it's nice that your host provides that for free, though personally the vimexx thing looks too sketchy for me, so I would be personally rather scared trusting them with my domain safety.
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@olback Same with .ca (Canada). WHOIS protection is a default.
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@JoshBent vimexx is a quite big player in the Netherlands haha, I've got around 7 domains there :)
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@linuxxx Their website really could take some fresh up to look more legitimate 😅
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@linuxxx what blog software are you using for a security blog?
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@PerfectAsshole Still gotta decide that one!
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@linuxxx may i suggest nginx, jekyll, and git. Pretty much security at its finest cause there's nothing to hack and the blog post would be written in markdown
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@PerfectAsshole NGinX for sure anywayd, will lookup Jeykill!
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@nixclusive0 I want to run it on one of my own servers tbh 😊
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@JoshBent Do you know if I could run Hexo behind an NGinX installation? There will be multiple devRant related sites on that server so running everything through NginX
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@linuxxx ofcourse you can, what kind of question do you have? are you searching for a proxy_pass config? 😊
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@JoshBent Nah already know how to do those haha, realized later on how stupid my question was haha
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@linuxxx ah, its fine 👍
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@linuxxx if they just had an English version :(
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@linuxxx hahaha the moment I commented I realized it could be confuse , I'm talking about https://vimexx.nl
Today I got to my new office. After booting my PC I noticed, that my phone-client isn't working.
I wrote an I...
@JoshBent suggested that I'd make a blog about security.
Nice idea, fair enough!
*registers domain at provider with discounts at the moment*
*tries to find whois protection option*
"You can add WHOIS protection to your account as an upgrade"
*requests authorization token*
*logs into usual domain name provider account*
*transfers domain name*
*anonymizes WHOIS details within two seconds*
I could've stayed and ask them about the cost etc but the fact that they even HAVE a price for protecting WHOIS data is a no-go for me.
Fuck domain name resellers which ask money for protecting ones WHOIS information (where possible).
rant
whois privacy
fuck them
cunts