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I recently was gifted a raspberry pi 5 and was looking at domains to buy to host my own instance. What happens to my instance if the domain expires?

Also, do freenom and .tk just not allow new domains to be registered anymore?

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[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If someone else buys the domain, then your instance likely won't exist anymore and you'll have to get a new domain.

Spend the $12/yr on a .com, it's a lot less of a headache in the long-run.

[–] accidentalloris@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes! I got a cheap .tech domain, and it kept increasing price year after year. Eventually it got a lot cheaper to just grab a .com.

Cloudflare has the best prices for domain names, they sell them at cost

[–] axzxc1236@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Pick one of the address between 000000.xyz to 999999999.xyz they are sold and renewed at dirt cheap prices.

[–] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Is .com fixed in some way to prevent the same scaling? I thought it was basically the domain sellers increasing the prices year over year