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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by smcn »

MisterSandman wrote: post #49
Macha wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.com/.net/.org - your name is probably gone New gTLDs - The registry can pretty much arbitrarily set prices in the future ccTLDs - Politics might make you have to change domain (e.g. UK owners of .eu) Pick your poison, I tend to stick with the original TLDs and my own country's ccTLD

How is .me? It's used a lot by students for their portfolio, I bit the bullet but wondering if I screwed up.

.me is absolutely fine and, as an employer, I would not mark down an applicant for using it.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by that_guy_iain »

Symbiote wrote: post #150
that_guy_iain wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.so and .co are popular when .io and .ai are taken.

Somalia ? Isn't there a risk of the government collapsing (further)? Though British Indian Ocean Territory has a risk of the territory disappearing. Colombia and Anguilla should stay around.

The domains at this point aren't really tied to the goverment.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by newfonewhodis »

I have my .io domain registered until 2023 which gives me enough time to look for an alternative and migrate all my self-hosted services over.

What are the best TLDs these days to own that aren't owned by large PE companies just wanting to make a quick buck?

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by progbits »

account42 wrote: post #120
cibomahto wrote: post #42

It might be helpful to look at this as a percentage change- it looks like they were currently charging $42.18/year as the standard price (1), so this is a 30% price increase. (1) https://news.gandi.net/en/2021/10/enjoy-our-io-promotion-bef...

As another commenter pointed out they already raised the price a year ago - sot this is a 30% YOY increase.

Well that is one way to get 30% YoY company growth... I wonder how many new domains got registered and what the total revenue diff is.

Actually, could it be that the .io hype went down and this is their attempt at compensating?

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by necovek »

teekert wrote: post #137
authed wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and they make sure that I can very easily move my domain between (hosting) providers Is it so easy that I could "do it for you"?

Hehe, no, at least, not without my credentials (and I turn on 2fa everywhere). You need a key from one provider and provide it to the next, for example Transip (one of the biggest Dutch providers) has the procedure to import a domain outlined here: [0]. To move away from Transip do this: [1]. I bet it's similar for other tlds, not? I have no experience with others. I went through this, no downtime, no issues, DNS was…

If you are not changing any DNS records (A/MX/CNAME... though you can change the NS records if you move the entire zone correctly, and the old NS servers keep it for a while too), there should never be any downtime related to a domain registrar change.

DNS propagation is not completely under your control (there can be caching DNS servers that ignore the TTL of records), so you should always give it at least 24h by serving the same zone from both (if you've changed NS records). I'd instead avoid that worry by using non-registrar provided DNS servers.

I would hope that TLD registries that fail to provide this are very few if not non-existent.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by flotwig »

Does ICANN already have rules around what prices registrars can charge for domains? It seems like that's the only solution in the current TLD system - ICANN needs to step in and prevent anti-consumer practices like year-over-year price increases that vastly outstrip inflation.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by kijin »

MisterSandman wrote: post #49
Macha wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.com/.net/.org - your name is probably gone New gTLDs - The registry can pretty much arbitrarily set prices in the future ccTLDs - Politics might make you have to change domain (e.g. UK owners of .eu) Pick your poison, I tend to stick with the original TLDs and my own country's ccTLD

How is .me? It's used a lot by students for their portfolio, I bit the bullet but wondering if I screwed up.

IMO .me is one of the safer ccTLDs. It's from a fairly stable country that hasn't been keen to hike up the prices or impose restrictions on who can have their domains so far; it's not often associated with spam; and it's even used by large companies like Facebook (fb.me).

When it comes to pricing, though, you never know what will happen down the road. I honestly don't know who I'd like to trust more: Verisign or the government of Montenegro?

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by [deleted] »

missedthecue wrote: post #160
ziddoap wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who exactly are you quoting? They are quoting the page they linked, which is the Ethos Capital "About Us" page, where they have written the above quote under the heading "Our Ethos".

At the time of my comment, their post did not include that link, only a random quotation and "that's bullshit, here's my take".

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