Hello everybody! I just learned that I can get a free .eu.org domain, but I’m not sure I understand the domain creation process. Any of you has one?
I’m unsure what should I write in the “name server” section:
It wants you to put in whatever nameservers you will be using. It’s pretty nice, it’s even offering you glue records if you’re to self host your DNS too!
Most domain registrars tend to also offer DNS services and even default to using theirs, so it’s often thought those come together. It seems like eu.org doesn’t. So you have to provide your own. That could be Cloudflare or any number of DNS providers out there.
Most of those DNS providers will give you two name servers that you can input there. Minimum is 2 but some have 4 and 8 too, but it’s rare. You just put them there for the first two and you can leave everything else blank.
That could be Cloudflare or any number of DNS providers out there.
I can highly recommend desec.io for this purpose.
i got one, it’s now hosting my blog if you are interested. https://bev0129so.eu.org
When did you request it? And how long did it take for them to activate it after the request?
I looked at my previous emails,i registered at 2022-10-26, and the next day it has been accepted.
Oh wow so really quick! Which NS service did you use? The fields on the bottom of the domain request
Thanks for the info!
cloudflare,
You need to host your domain somewhere, meaning some DNS provider needs to be the authority on what gets routed where when someone accesses your domain.
The provider will give you a list of nameservers when you make the domain part of their DNS.
I don’t know if there are any that are free (if you don’t also buy a domain from them), so you’ll have to check on your own. You can also self-host a bind9 server and do your DNS there.
Please don’t self-host DNS. It can be exploited and abused in many ways if you don’t know what you’re doing.
deSEC.io is free and fully featured.
bunny.net is technically $1/mo but you don’t pay anything in months where the queries against their servers fall under a threshold. With a low use personal domain you can basically load up $10 worth of credit and coast on it for a year or more.
Please don’t self-host DNS. It can be exploited and abused in many ways if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Seconded
One of these is DNS reflection, a type of amplification DDoS I found out about several years ago… You send a tiny packet to a DNS server requesting a domain with long records, but tell the DNS server to send the response to another address. Pretty interesting and amusing imo, but probably not if you’re on the receiving end of one lol
Isn’t that mainly a problem with recursive DNS servers? The authoritative servers are only aware of the few domains they’re hosting.
“If you do everything perfectly you won’t have security problems.”
But people make mistakes. Human error and misconfigured servers is the cause of many security flaws. Especially people asking “what should I provide for DNS on this domain registration form?”
DNS services are dirt cheap. Hosting yourself requires some knowledge to run security, and you need a static IP address to host one which many people don’t have.
Best not to do it yourself.