Hi there, I’m currently looking into renting a domain from cloudflare for convenient access to my hosted services from outside my home. It seems some of the cheapest options for the domain name I want to use are country TLDs (.uk, .us). Does this bind me to their laws in any way? can anyone come at me for hosting (e.g. Illegally downloaded content) on their TLD?

Regardless, is there any reason I shouldn’t use cloudflare for this? any drawbacks I should be aware of?

Edit: I should mention I’m currently using duckdns for free and the reason I want to move is that it seems some organizations (like my university and workplace) block duckdns (for reasons beyond me).

Edit 2: So to my understanding there’s not a big one, but some risk involved, so I think I’ll pay a bit more for a non-ccTLD. Thanks everyone!

  • VonReposti@feddit.dk
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    11 months ago

    If you want to host “Linux ISOs” I’ve heard from a friend that Njalla is the best option. You don’t own the domain meaning your personaldetails aren’t published and Njalla has a good track record when it comes to protecting their customers.

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      11 months ago

      Lol that’s not it, currently I’m just hosting a Jellyfin instance since streaming services seem to have been going steadily downhill for years now. But that also counts as illegal activity afaik. I wasn’t worried up until now since in my country piracy laws aren’t really enforced at all (as a kid I didn’t even know downloading content was considered illegal), but I thought maybe using a .uk TLD may mean I have to answer to them.