How private is namecheap? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by kali@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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First time website hoster here. I just need a simple, cheap website and I stumbled upon namecheap and their shared hosting/website builder.

As far as I can tell from what I've seen they seem good, but is there something I should know about privacy-wise?

Sorry if this post is naive, I'm not really sure where I should be looking.

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[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Namecheap are fine in terms of registrar and offer DNS privacy (where your details won't appear on a whois), though they will provide it to law enforcement if requested; I recommend hosting your DNS on CloudFlare if you want to do a LetsEncrypt DNS challenge though, Namecheap got too slow for that a while back.

[-] kali@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info. I don't plan on doing anything majorly illegal, just personal stuff. More interested for peace of mind, so the law enforcement compliance isn't a problem.

Sounds like I'll probably stick with them for now, thought I may switch to CloudFlare in the future. Also do you know if Namecheap's 'premium DNS' is fast enough for the DNS challenge? I don't think it is, but just checking you weren't referring to the free one.

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