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Never buy .xyz
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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Just wanted to say in case others see this, you can buy a .xyz domain from reputable places (maybe for a higher cost). I believe the OP is talking about the specific site 'gen.xyz'.
I have an xyz domain with Cloudflare, host many things on it (like Jellyfin), and haven't had any issues yet.
Edit: as many have pointed out, my understanding of registrars was wrong and gen.xyz actually owns all xyz tlds. Sleep in fear if you own one I suppose
gen.xyz controls all .xyz domains, even yours. Doesn't matter where you registered it.
Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].
I'm like "what'd we ever do to you?"
No, I'm in that category too lol.
As is everyone born between 1965 and 2015, which is quite a few people.
Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven't seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I've seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.
Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.
From what I've seen/heard, if you follow the ToS (usually by not proxy-ing hosts that shouldn't be proxied or are in violation if they are) there's nothing to be afraid of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bought from njal.la. they were almost entirely unhelpful but pointed me to the site for the tld. It appeared through their wording that gen.xyz who owns the xyz tld was responsible for taking the domain down. I bought my new domain through porkbun tho.
That’s not how domains work.
How expensive can "reputable" be. I got danhab99.xyz for like ¯\(°_o)/¯ $20/year?? Who cares
Namecheap is reputable and WAY cheaper than that. Been using them for years.
This is all news to me. I thought .xyz was owned by Google after they became Alphabet and had that ABC.XYZ site years ago.
Love when I see stuff like this and get to learn something new