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> we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc Why "of course"? Cloudflare is able to provide domains transfers and renewals at wholesale rates.
Does Cloudflare do registrations at all?
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Ted, I've used namecheap for years and I love it. One thing though, when I visit namecheap while using a VPN it makes me fill out a cloudflare captcha. Any way to stop that? Considering I have already paid you money, you have my address, name, phone number, etc. it seems a bit ridiculous to ask for a captcha when visiting using a VPN.
Captcha is likely being triggered by Cloudflare. We have heard this feedback in this past and have listened but it's always a tricky balance of fighting abuse/bots and presenting an extra step for the user.
what are they doing on namecheap? buying domain names?
(if they're hitting your domain checker you can configure cloudflare to only captcha protect that page...)
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To add to that, why can they actually? Why doesn't the EU just start a new .com registry that the rest of the world can actually refer to? I don't have a complete understanding of the TLD world but I can imagine it's much like the AS world with BGP. If the rest of world decides that one registry (Verizon's .com registry) isn't the leading authority, but rather the EU's .com registry for example, is. Than what "can" v…
Here’s a starting point for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
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Suck it out of the world economy? Does Verisign collect their profits and throw it all in a furnace?
What point are you trying to make? I think you know they don't burn the money.
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Loss leader. The markup from legacy registrars is probably excessive, but with Google, Cloudflare, etc getting into the game, they can likely offer wholesale pricing to support the rest of their (very) profitable product lines.
Exactly. Depends how you define legacy registrars but I can agree with you to an extent. Namecheap's retail pricing is not excessive by any means — domains on their own are essentially commoditized — it all depends how much you value service and trust. Try calling Google if your domain is hijacked, your account is locked, or you have any number of other issues with a high value domain.
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How do you decide what profit margin is acceptable? Is it okay for a company to have 3%? 76%?
I look at the average, which is about 10% for the sp500. https://insight.factset.com/sp-500-reporting-net-profit-marg...
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Captcha is likely being triggered by Cloudflare. We have heard this feedback in this past and have listened but it's always a tricky balance of fighting abuse/bots and presenting an extra step for the user.
Also, as a general aside to web devs, if we need captchas, can we at least use something less obnoxious and more privacy friendly, like: https://friendlycaptcha.com/ I put this on my signup form and have had zero spam since, and it has very little impact on user experience. The fact that it doesn't feed the google surveillance machine is a bonus.
I would also love to remind everyone that this is the same company who controls not 1 but 2 core root DNS server addresses. A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET That means Verisign controls 15% of the global roots while everyone else holds a meager 7%. IANA got the optics on this one all sorts of messed up.
The root servers are not all equal and there is no real advantage to holding two. There are 63 Js, 14 As, but 165 Ls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
Capitalism is an economic system in which private individuals capture property, make it private, make it scarce, then charge others to use it, making profit. Profit is theft from society. Stuff like this is the natural conclusion of such a system.
Profit is reward for taking a risk. Don't like that a .com costs more? Use another TLD.