[email protected] wrote:
Are there acceptable free of charge domain name providers?
That's a difficult question to answer along the lines you propose because you'll never really know if your service provider logs activity or uses the logs for anything but system maintenance until they do what you don't want them to do.
We can't be sure about anyone we'd recommend because so few people work at these places (so we don't really know how they operate), and because it's difficult to determine why someone is advocating for a service provider: is this the review of a satisfied customer who is in-the-know about such things? Is this an advertisement for them regardless of what the organization does? Is this the word of a customer of long-standing who is ignorant of organizational wrongdoing? Something else?
This applies to so many services as well, not just domain name registrars or DNS server hosters.
When it comes to gratis services versus commercial services: It wouldn't surprise me to find that those who give services away gratis are more likely to get money to run those services from somewhere you might not like. After all it's not reasonable to expect the service to run everything they do without money because staff, bandwidth, storage, and computers each cost money to acquire and maintain.
