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:

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  • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
    9•10 months ago

    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.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      21•10 months ago

      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.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
        7•10 months ago

        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

        • @deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•10 months ago

          Isn’t that mainly a problem with recursive DNS servers? The authoritative servers are only aware of the few domains they’re hosting.

          • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5•10 months ago

            “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.

        • lemmyvoreEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          Do you mean NS records? Yes, they both let you add and edit them.