For those unaware, Njalla is an anonymous domain registrar though I’m hoping many of you already know.
What are your thoughts on Njalla? I’ve got a domain with them already and renewal is coming up this August, but I’m kinda feeling doubt with their Trustpilot reviews.
- Is Trustpilot even accurate?
- Who are all those one-star reviewers?
- Is Njalla a scam? Has anyone here had good experiences with them?
The website there is just my personal website. There’s not much “shady” stuff on it (lemuria.ph).
I’m on PorkBun now, but I’ve used Njalla for a few years and had no issues with them. The reason I switched was simply because I wanted to own the domain, because with Njalla the domain isn’t actually yours, it’s registered to Njalla. Note that this is by design, in the sense that when someone looks up the domain, they won’t get your info, but Njalla’s instead. After a while, I’ve gotten less comfortable with the idea of someone else owning the domain I paid for, so I switched.
But you never truly “own” a domain anyway, you just rent it via the registrars. The registrars and registries can take it away from you at any moment anyway.
I get the impression they are ok though expensive. I’ve never used them. You could ask on a hosting forum like lowendspirit.com.
Not many results for Njalla there, just someone saying they have a few of them through Njalla but offering no thoughts of the service
I used them for a domain and everything was great until it wasn’t. Without warning I couldn’t access my account. Correct login info and was kicked back as incorrect. Support wasn’t responsive, and I recall reading similar stories at the time. I ended up not able to renew my domain and I lost it.
Did Njalla keep the domain forever or did they not renew it such that you could simply go straight to the registrar to take it back?
Additionally, what did you do exactly with the domain that may have motivated Njalla to just… do such a thing?
I used the domain for my job as a teacher, mostly for redirecting complicated links into simple ones my students could remember. It was easier for my elementary students at the time to memorize my redirect than trying to navigate to the links section on our online classroom.
I never did anything that would be against any TOS, but when I went to login about a month before renewal I was locked out. Support never responded, and I gave up after reading that many people had the problem and were unsuccessful in regaining access to their domain. I didn’t try to take it back because shortly after it expired I changed grade levels and the domain would no longer make sense in my new position.
Techlore recommends Njalla. However, it is expensive. I use NameCheap and EU.ORG, with deSEC as my website DNS in both cases.
I have a few personal domains registered with Njalla and have for years with no issues. They’re not hosting anything shadier than a Jellyfin login (on a non-Njalla server) - and so I’m not worried about getting denied access. And I like not having my real details in the WHOIS.
