Tags: Domains

You can finally directly register domains with Cloudflare

Published on 2020-06-30 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2020-12-18

I know, Cloudflare is often criticized in privacy groups and also I do not find everything good. I myself use Cloudflare actually only for two things, which do not concern the privacy of the visitors of my websites. DNS hosting and domain registration.

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World map of domains

Published on 2020-04-18 in 🔗 Links

British domain registry Nominet created a world map of country-code top-level domains. It’s really interesting to see that .tk (Tokelau) is is the world’s largest ccTLD, because registration is free and no expired domains get deleted. After that comes .cn (China) and .de (Germany).

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Published on 2020-03-29 in 💬 Micro

What I like about Go: It’s quick and easy to create small programs, including support for Docker and everything. For example, today I developed a minimal URL shortener that stores the entries in a SQLite database: https://jlel.se/goshort

Now I have finally found a good use for the domain I recently registered. 😄

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How to Get a Completely Free Website

Published on 2019-12-31 in 👨‍💻 Dev

Updated on 2019-12-31

In this post I want to show with which services and tools it is possible to run a completely free website. An own website not only offers the possibility to create your own professional web presence, it can also make you independent from silos like Facebook, Twitter or Medium. It is always better to publish content on your own page with your own domain. If a service changes the terms of use or ceases operation, it is so much easier to move to another service.

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Email domain names

Published on 2019-11-17 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2019-11-19

Do you know how difficult it is to tell someone your email address with your custom domain name?

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Own your email domain

Published on 2019-03-30 in 💭 Thoughts

I already wrote about that you should think about paying for your email service (or host it yourself if you’re crazy), but another important aspect is the email address itself.

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