Recently tried to buy a domain through Porkbun since their name always comes up in these threads, but they wanted a picture of my ID. What other providers do you guys recommend?

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    What TLD did you choose on porkbun? Maybe it’s a national TLD that requires your ID. I have .EU, .me and .org domains with them and I was never asked for an ID.

    • Unifier2661@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I have bought two dozen domains (with common TLDs) on Porkbun and have never been asked for KYC.

    • UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I was going for one of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains. I can’t check exactly what the message said since it have me the option to delete my account, which I did, but I believe the gist of it was about fighting against spam

        • TechGuy@discuss.onlineEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          It’s for the cheap “1.111B” 6 or 7 digit xyz domains. I think it’s a recent thing, but they’re basically being bought up en masse and used for botnets/spam, so as an attempt to stem the flow the .xyz registry asks for ID

    • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I went for an .org and the same happened to me. After digging, Porkbun says is an automated flag of suspicious account, irrelevant to the TLD.