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hackcasual | 1 year ago

There's a ton of gTLDs too, I just grabbed a cheap one and ACME-fied all my lan services

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titanomachy|1 year ago

Are there any that actually stay cheap, though? Any time I've bought one they've cranked the price after a year.

piperswe|1 year ago

The following TLDs are $3.98/yr (not an initial discount, that's just the price) with Cloudflare Registrar according to https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17lpxa6/cloudflare_...:

  - .bid
  - .download
  - .date
  - .loan
  - .men
  - .party
  - .stream
  - .trade
  - .win
You could probably get away with using a few of these for a home network, though some would be kinda strange (.men? .loan?)

deathanatos|1 year ago

… .net? (<$15/y for the registration.)

DavideNL|1 year ago

…or alternatively simply buy a domain for 5 or 10 years.

justsomehnguy|1 year ago

> they've cranked the price after a year.

Define 'cranked'.

I spend way more in a bar in one night than on my domains yearly, so I always find 'oh I need one super-duper cheap, below $2/y otherwise it's way too much' comments a bit.. too frugal.

jimbobthrowawy|1 year ago

I did this for a while back when freenom existed. Then, I moved and learned that I was exceptionally lucky to have working loopback NAT in my previous house, and would have to split off a local.<domain> entry for clients on the internal network. No idea why most ISPs don't have routers that work like that.

I haven't bothered doing DNS auth to get certs since I started using paid domains.