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I want to buy a domain name for personal usage (reverse proxy, selfhosting serivces). I’ll probably go with a general purpose .net or my country specifc one. I am based in Northern Europe.

  • Does it matter based on where I am located where the domain is registered?
  • Any recommendations for domain registrars in that regard?

Thanks

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    You will get a slightly faster connection the closer the server is to you, but it doesn’t make a huge difference. You should have backups in multiple locations (including locally to your home machine) anyway.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      OP is talking about a domain registrar, I can’t imagine location makes a bit of difference since no traffic is going through them.

      • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Hey, ping matters when you’re trying to buy a domain before someone snipes it from you

      • Lunch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, I was hesitating about this. So if I register a domain and use it for reverse proxy with ssl and all. At no point does it traffic to the registrar or other part?

        I am really not familiar with how domains work behind the scene, so apologies if its a dumb question.

        • doeknius_gloek@feddit.deEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          No, the registrar just registers the domain for you (duh). You can then change the DNS recods for this domain and these records will propagate to other DNS servers all around the world. Your clients will use some of these DNS servers to lookup the IP address of your server and then connect to this IP.

          The traffic between your clients and server has nothing to do with your domain registrar.

        • Downcount@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          You don’t “use” the domain for reverse proxy but a server. Where the server is located at matters. While you can get a domain and a server from the same hoster both still are different things.

          Think of a telephone number (domain) and a phone (server).

        • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Correct, the registrar simply holds the domain for you, and points it to whatever DNS service you use.

          Once that’s done, the domain DNS server just replies with the IP for DNS records, so no traffic actually passes through either the registrar or DNS server.