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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 ted0 »

echelon wrote: post #228
ted0 wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to hear you had trouble with our interface. We do have some pretty substantial updates planned for 2022 and would love to have you back. Feel free to shoot any feedback to ted [at] namecheap.com.

Ted, thank you so much for participating in this thread! Namecheap provides excellent service, and I've been a happy customer for years. As someone who owns ~30 domain names split between Namecheap and GoDaddy, it would be incredibly beneficial if you overhauled the primary domain list view. As it stands right now, your domain list UI is bulky and clunky and requires several clickthroughs to show all domains or sort…

Passing all of your helpful feedback to our Domains PM. Thank you. As I mentioned in another comment, we're developing a new dashboard experience among other things, which we're really excited about.

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

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Post by echelon »

ted0 wrote: post #251
echelon wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ted, thank you so much for participating in this thread! Namecheap provides excellent service, and I've been a happy customer for years. As someone who owns ~30 domain names split between Namecheap and GoDaddy, it would be incredibly beneficial if you overhauled the primary domain list view. As it stands right now, your domain list UI is bulky and clunky and requires several clickthroughs to show all domains or sort…

Passing all of your helpful feedback to our Domains PM. Thank you. As I mentioned in another comment, we're developing a new dashboard experience among other things, which we're really excited about.

Fantastic, thank you so much!

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

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Post by notatoad »

cj wrote: post #15

How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site? At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.

there was obviously some other issues with the whole scheme, but i think long-term the massive expansion of TLDs still holds promise to neutralize domain-parking.

the big problem is the scarcity of .com domains along with people's insistence on needing the .com because it is "better".

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

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Post by ksec »

ted0 wrote: post #186

Ted from Namecheap here. Donuts, who now operates the .io TLD, is only increasing the wholesale price by ~10%. We are still obviously not happy about this since it's always our goal to ensure that domain pricing is as accessible as possible to our customers. It would appear that Gandi has just chosen to substantially increase their markup as part of this Donuts update. Our pricing will likely only increase a small am…

Taking this opportunity to ask industry professionals.....

What the hell is happening to ".Web"?

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

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Post by nacho2sweet »

MerelyMortal wrote: post #204
ted0 wrote: post #186

Ted from Namecheap here. Donuts, who now operates the .io TLD, is only increasing the wholesale price by ~10%. We are still obviously not happy about this since it's always our goal to ensure that domain pricing is as accessible as possible to our customers. It would appear that Gandi has just chosen to substantially increase their markup as part of this Donuts update. Our pricing will likely only increase a small am…

Former Namecheap customer here, thank you for the transparancy. (I only left Namecheap because of the interface, I found that Dynadot was comparable in price and features, but with a nicer GUI. NC seems like a good company otherwise, so I'm always open to the possibility of switching back.)

I agree, I was a big namecheap user but now it is a dark pattern trap to trick people into addons. Just changing your DNS is a confusing jumble.

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

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Post by ksec »

ted0 wrote: post #215
hutrdvnj wrote: post #203

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Hey Ted, will Namecheap go public anytime soon?

No plans for that. We have never even taken any investment and luckily have been growing substantially over the last few years as a bootstrapped company.

Oh I would love to read the NC journey as a bootstrapped company.

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

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Post by ksec »

echelon wrote: post #2

Any perspective on the best TLDs for startups? .com is obviously the preferred choice, but from my perspective these are the next best picks: - .io for B2B, SAAS, etc. startups. Occasionally makes sense for B2C (itch.io, etc.) Seems to be falling out of fashion, though. - .ai is the top choice for ML-based startups. These are really hot now. - .dev for the occasional SAAS or library. Doesn't make sense B2C. - .app if…

I remember YC's general rule of thumb. If your customers / users are consumers then you need .com.

Otherwise for SaaS for B2B it doesn't matter as much ( if at all ).

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

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Post by callahad »

RicoElectrico wrote: post #105
athenot wrote: post #41

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At this point, there are many alternative gTLDs that can be used for personal sites, and quite a few are super cheap. Maybe the squatters will catch up and eventually buy them all up but for now there's a decent availability.

Can you suggest one? I'm interested in a gTLD that won't raise its prices suddenly and is of good reputation - so FB and co. won't block it.

.org is controlled by a non-profit and I believe it has reasonable controls on price increases.

(Private equity recently tried to obtain .org and jack up the prices, but the acquisition was blocked by ICANN https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/icann-blocks-con...)

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

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Post by tinus_hn »

MerelyMortal wrote: post #204
ted0 wrote: post #186

Ted from Namecheap here. Donuts, who now operates the .io TLD, is only increasing the wholesale price by ~10%. We are still obviously not happy about this since it's always our goal to ensure that domain pricing is as accessible as possible to our customers. It would appear that Gandi has just chosen to substantially increase their markup as part of this Donuts update. Our pricing will likely only increase a small am…

Former Namecheap customer here, thank you for the transparancy. (I only left Namecheap because of the interface, I found that Dynadot was comparable in price and features, but with a nicer GUI. NC seems like a good company otherwise, so I'm always open to the possibility of switching back.)

Isn’t the wholesale price of domains public information?

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

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Post by dhosek »

gowld wrote: post #199
dhosek wrote: post #86

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Not all navigation is through links.

What non-link navigation needs a domain name? IP addresses work fine, like phone nmbers and street addresses.

How about entering in a URL from an offline mention, whether that's a print ad, being mentioned in a podcast or shouted from the stage of an indie band playing in a bar? When I started a band in the 90s, there was a great deal of consideration made in choosing the name for there being an available domain name (at the time there were about two dozen English words which had not been registered as domain names, of which exactly one was a potential band name (osteoclasts) but we decided against that—we ended up with the suboptimal dream-in-color.net since the name was unavailable with neither dashless nor .com/.org options available). One important thing was that the domain name would be something that a semi-drunk person might remember later.

Non-technical people will likely not recognize four three-digit numbers separated by periods as being an address for a website.

And phone numbers have been largely supplanted by contact lists on phones (I've occasionally forgotten my own number). Looking over my call history, out of the last fifty outgoing calls, six are not in my phone book and all but one of these were dialed directly from search results on the phone.

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