[ForkMeOnTinder]

> Worst yet, they took down all my projects and confiscated all my domains

Never put all your eggs in one basket.

Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third.

If you have activist-type projects that might attract the attention of powerful people or companies, keep those segregated from your more banal projects in their own isolated accounts.

It sucks seeing people learn this the hard way.

[amadeuspagel]

> Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third.

This just means that there are three companies that can shut you down.

[SahAssar]

Domains and hosting are usually seen very differently. Your domain is a lot closer to property, while the hosting is commonly shut down anytime it is seen as inconvenient by the provider.

If you combine them on the same provider you risk loosing access to the former because you lost the latter, the providers that host all the services also tend to have blurred lines between disabling one service and disabling your whole account.

[asadm]

But not completely, at the same time

[amadeuspagel]

Yes, completely. If you lack any of these things you are shut down completely

[kadoban]

It's typically a lot easier to recover from the loss of one of those than all of them at once.

[bezhermoso]

This saga clearly is a counterpoint.

[apitman]

I agree on hosting, but what additional advantage does separating your DNS from domain registry add?

[xp84]

If the person who is trying to get you shut down targets the DNS provider, and they decide "Yup, let's shut them down," if they also happen to be your registrar, you could end up with your domain name confiscated or locked up.