<infinisil>
If I need some functionality I can just code it myself
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<gchristensen>
joepie91: I'm a very happy customer of a not-cheap registrar
<joepie91>
gchristensen: I'm a very happy customer of a cheap registrar :P
<gchristensen>
*shrug* the extra money Gandi charges is worth it
<joepie91>
(internet.bs in my case)
<joepie91>
just had a look
<joepie91>
cloudflare is listing .com as $8.03 at-cost
<joepie91>
internet.bs charges $8.99 for .com
<joepie91>
(for a single-year reg; for longer periods it goes down to $8.49, but meh)
* gchristensen
pays 2x that
<joepie91>
yeah, I recall gandi being like $15 or so
<joepie91>
though that was a few years ago
<joepie91>
I briefly had a domain there
<gchristensen>
$15.50
<joepie91>
I don't recall why I moved it
<gchristensen>
too boring having a registrar that works and doesn't try to upsell? :)
<gchristensen>
(that dig would have hit better if you used godaddy, of course)
<joepie91>
gchristensen: internet.bs also doesn't, at least not in any intrusive way; they ask you "hey do you also want hosting" once with a "never ask me again ever" button
<joepie91>
I'm okay with that :P
<joepie91>
they do target a different market though I think
<joepie91>
internet.bs seems to mostly live off bulk registrations
<joepie91>
dunno about Gandi but it has a lot more average-user-facing stuff going on
<joepie91>
internet.bs is waaaaay more barebones
<gchristensen>
theyhave a good api
<joepie91>
but is it an API designed for integration with tooling, or for bulk registration?
<joepie91>
I don't think they have an API for the average joe
<joepie91>
gchristensen: anyway, one major reason I like internet.bs is because I tend to work on projects that involve user-uploaded content of some variety, and internet.bs' abuse department is extremely relaxed if you're not obviously abusive
<joepie91>
abuse complaints just get fwd'ed
<gchristensen>
a nice
<joepie91>
that prevents a lot of headaches
<joepie91>
like, running a phishing site will probably get you booted, but random defamation/piracy/whatever claims, they don't really care so long as you indicate that you've dealt with them
<joepie91>
(that'd probably be different if you were TPB though :P)
<joepie91>
I've had issues with Dynadot on this aspect in particular
<joepie91>
they unilaterally decided to suspend my domain over a single abusemail, no warning to me, no request to deal with it; just a full domain lock, no transfer, refusing to unlock it
<joepie91>
it took a call from a journalist inquiring about why the site was down, before they agreed to make it transferable again...
<joepie91>
so yeah, whatever you do, definitely avoid that one :D
<joepie91>
there was some schadenfreude at least, though; that little stunt cost them a customer with 10k+ domains
<joepie91>
(not me; somebody who heard about the incident from me)
<joepie91>
anyway, I should sleep instead of rambling on
<emily>
joepie91: hm, does internet.bs have the kind of API that would allow you to easily automate the acme DNS stuff?
<joepie91>
emily: dunno, I don't use their DNS service, I use HE DNS
<emily>
hm, and they're not fussy about abuse complaints? I'd expect them to maybe be moreso than registrars
<emily>
(ah, sorry, I shouldn't keep you up!)
<joepie91>
emily: not so long as you're running a legitimate thing anyway, in my experience
<joepie91>
emily: also, why would you expect them to be more fussy? because of less margin?
<jasongrossman>
I use gandi, and I like everything about them EXCEPT that their web interface is complicated and fussy and they've been known to make major unnecessary changes to it.
<jasongrossman>
joepie91: It's just started working again.
<joepie91>
hahahaha
<emily>
joepie91: yeah, like I said I have no idea why I felt that way. in retrospect it makes no sense
<joepie91>
jasongrossman: solar rays, aliens? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
<jasongrossman>
Alien rays.
<joepie91>
emily: iirc internet.bs was one of the first registrars to take Bitcoin so that might be the reason for those queries
<joepie91>
:p
<emily>
hm, wonder how useful that still is now that icann are fussy about having real contact details
<joepie91>
Bitcoin never was anonymous :P
<joepie91>
but internet.bs has been offering free whois privacy since whoever, so I guess they've always been catering to the... 'internet-conscious'?
<joepie91>
since forever*
<joepie91>
words, they're difficult
* emily
nods
<joepie91>
emily: anyhow, from what I've heard from various hosting providers, Bitcoin-paying customers have very very low abuse rates
<joepie91>
so it is - or at least was - pretty economically interesting to take Bitcoin, if your audience used it
<joepie91>
(the working theory is that this is because you can't chargeback Bitcoin, so people tend to be more careful about not fucking up their service)
<joepie91>
anyway, now I'm really off to sleep :P
<joepie91>
night!
<{^_^}>
Night!
<gchristensen>
does anyone else have dozens of git repos on their computer with uncommitted changes from who knows how long ago?
<samueldr>
yes
<gchristensen>
sometimes I think I'd be fine if I lost my computer and backups b/c git, and then I remember all those uncommited changes....
<samueldr>
the worst part is going to that project to maybe rescue it from rot, and finding an unfinished change which lacks documentation and doesn't work