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I just renewed a domain with Namecheap and, based on the price they're now charging, pretty sure the cost of this “free” whois privacy protection is now just built into the cost of their products. Not impressed. Edit: spelling
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NameSilo is a couple dollars cheaper than Namecheap and include free privacy as well ( https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php ).
What's the catch though? Domain registration is a pretty competitive business. How come NameSilo can to be so much cheaper?
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Yes, you need to submit German driver license, German utility bills, and things in the like. We were working on localizing one French website to a German version, and just ended using .eu as the German site.
This makes me sad. I don‘t think I had ever had to do this but I always used a German postal address and German bank account. Also my last .de domain registration is a few years ago, so maybe they handle this stricter now. Anyway, if you have any questions regarding domain registration in Germany or which registrars worked well for me, feel free to contact me, my details are in my profile.
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So you get to choose who we perceive as our competitors now? We have a different view of them that doesn't match with yours. That's ok.
> So you get to choose who we perceive as our competitors now? No, I don't as I am not Namecheap employee. I don't work or approve off companies that serve US-based clientele, but constantly outsource their customer support to Eastern-block countries and hire people that barely speak English. I think its anti-american frankly speaking, but I don't think you are American citizen anyways so this doesn't apply. But I do…
I just renewed a domain with Namecheap and, based on the price they're now charging, pretty sure the cost of this “free” whois privacy protection is now just built into the cost of their products. Not impressed. Edit: spelling
Jan 23rd 2018: $10.87 for .com and $0.99 for whoisguard ($11.86 total) 29th May 2018: $10.98 (+0.11) for .com and 0.18 ICANN'T fee ($11.16 total). So it's $0.71 cheaper without whoisguard. So that margin (increase in .com) probably covers the actual whoisguard cost, the $1 fee was pretty much pure profit.
I just renewed a domain with Namecheap and, based on the price they're now charging, pretty sure the cost of this “free” whois privacy protection is now just built into the cost of their products. Not impressed. Edit: spelling
You might be impressed with Namesilo. They've always had Whois protection for free as long as I've used them. .com domains are something like $8 per year.
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> So you get to choose who we perceive as our competitors now? No, I don't as I am not Namecheap employee. I don't work or approve off companies that serve US-based clientele, but constantly outsource their customer support to Eastern-block countries and hire people that barely speak English. I think its anti-american frankly speaking, but I don't think you are American citizen anyways so this doesn't apply. But I do…
Your logic is absolutely ridiculous but I'll try to play along. Go here http://www.registrarowl.com/report_registrar_total_domains.p... and tell me again who our competition is. I don't see any of the companies you listed there. Even if they may be fine companies that's not who or what we are aiming for and that is our choice as a business. It's like asking Coca Cola or Pepsi to list Jarritos soda as their competitio…
And when you click on the link you yourself provided, who is the FIRST company in the first column right in your face?? Yeah, you heard about those guys?
NameSilo provides free Whois Guard at least since I moved my domains out of Namecheap some 7 years ago when my disgruntled employee claimed domains zoned with you are his just because he knew my first name, last name and my DOB. Although they were not taken offline, but certainly froze for a week or so before I wasted many hours to try and clear the situation out. Since then I strongly oppose your "security logic" and proudly had at least 4 people move all their domains out. Although frankly I still have fun locking my ex employee out of his own Namecheap account, simply because I happen to know his username and that's all you need to lock someone out attempting wrong password a few times :)
Anyways, let's end this time-consuming worthless conversation, because frankly you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Edit: from the link you provided and clicking on NameCheap name, did you read the February 22nd review about deleting someones 75 domains and not even having phone support to discuss the issue?? Jesus man; how do you sleep with yourself knowing how much stress you have cause another human-being?? :facepalm
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Mind to share what you choose to use?
NameSilo is a couple dollars cheaper than Namecheap and include free privacy as well ( https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php ).
I created it for myself, but feel free to use.
I had just switched all my domains over to porkbun for this very reason - whois guard wasn't free at namecheap. I think I'll just leave the domains I moved there, and then continue with namecheap going forward. Now I view them as essentially equivalent plus or minus a few pennies per year.
It was basically a tossup between Porkbun and Namesilo, so I went with the service with the more modern interface even though I don't interact with it much.