Submitted 17 hours ago by 
A_norny_mousse@piefed.social to ask@piefed.social
I want to try out some things with a secondary domain. I’d prefer ethical and non-shady providers. I have a fixed IP and a VPS to go with it, so it’s really only about the domain. Even paying very little is not an option right now.
I just spent 15min searching the fediverse for this and the most relevant post is 3 years old. I know I can search the WWW and get lots of results, but I want your opinion!
TIA
I don’t think there are any free ones left. You may look into dynamic dns to get free subdomains.
I think the downvotes are probably because you make it sound like you expect to be able to get a normal domain name without paying.
Your best bet may be to look for a dynamic dns provider, as they let you map a hostname to your IP address, whether it’s static or dynamic.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 16 hours ago I think the downvotes are probably because you make it sound like you expect to be able to get a normal domain name without paying.
I am pretty sure that this is possible.
Your best bet may be to look for a dynamic dns provider
Well that should work for static IPs too, I guess. Recommendations?
they let you map a hostname to your IP address
WDYM by “hostname”?
I don’t have any specific recommendations, you’ll need to decide how the various providers match up to your ethical requirements. You say you just want to “try out some things with a secondary domain”, so you may want to take the opportunity to test a few of the services to see which suits you best.
WDYM by “hostname”?
In terms of DNS, a hostname is just the name that you want to be able to resolve to an IP address, so, for instance www.google.con is a hostname in the google.com domain. Because the system is hierarchical, google.com can also be a hostname in the com domain. Specifically, a hostname is represented by an A record in the domain, and a nested, or sub, domain is represented by a NS record, with similar types for IPv6 addresses.
john_tech@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I personally use freedns.afraid.org, specifically a .ignorelist.com subdomain
Thanks, this looks intersting.