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Please refrain from using '1337' speak here. s/sez/says/ and thank you.

One of the reasons why I chose a .is domain for my personal blog. A few gotchas though: registering a .is domain takes a while (think days/weeks instead of minutes) and your TTL needs to be high. http://fr.anc.is

I don't remember having a high registration time for my .is domain, although its possible I just forgot.

The only gotcha I would mention if you go through isnic is that you need to have your own DNS servers, and they have to be registered with ISNIC with a NIC handle (and some other things?). I just use Linode's DNS servers (where I host it), and haven't had any issues.

you can also use 1984.is, an icelandic free dns provider. nice guys, too.

Have you used their vps service? If you have please comment on its reliability, seems very competitively priced. According to wikipedia 100% of Iceland electricity is produced from renewable sources. I am tempted to move most of my servers to Iceland.

What does TTL stand for in this context?

It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records

Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.

@ChuckN : FYI, you have been hellbanned for the past ~2 years. Your comments are automatically marked [dead] and hidden.

Looking through his comments after reading your comment feels just like watching the Sixth Sense. Has ChuckN really been commenting for the past two years without knowing nobody can see him (well except for the few that enable showdead)?

And now, maybe today, ChuckN will read your comment, the first person to acknowledge him after so long, and he will playback the last 2 years of his HN involvement in a montage in his head as all of the pieces start to come together ... why does no one respond to my comments? why do my comments always get downvoted? could it be true? am I really... dead?

This is quite a remarkable story actually.

Well, that just makes me want to see them. How do I do that?

Turn on 'showdead' in your profile.

Sweet, thank you.

How can you tell, how do you know?

timezones ... thx for responding about TTL. About the only thing I'd add is that it needs to be set to 24h whereas most others will accept lower values.