I just increased mine to the max of 10 years, I guess I should have done that anyway just for security. What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#12The ICANN wholesale prices to registrars, from 1st of September are $9.59 per domain (+ $0.18 ICANN fee per domain) for registrations and renewals [1]
[1]: https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#13Porkbun pricing:
.com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com
.xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#14Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#15That phrasing is hilarious. "If you want to take advantage of our higher price..."
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#16$15.88 per .com is pretty steep , damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com
They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.
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#17I just increased mine to the max of 10 years, I guess I should have done that anyway just for security. What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?
You can transfer it elsewhere at any point and you'll still get credit for the years you've paid for (though the receiving registrar will likely make you buy at least one additional year).
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#18$15.88 per .com is pretty steep , damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.
It's worth going directly to the source of Porkbun's data, especially if you're trying to broadly compare domain prices: https://tld-list.com
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#19$15.88 per .com is pretty steep , damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
The upstream cost increase is 7% (the maximum allowed by Verisign's contract). Verisign is allowed to increase .com prices by up to 7% next year, and likely will.
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#20I just increased mine to the max of 10 years, I guess I should have done that anyway just for security. What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?
Namecheap can hand over their records to another registar before they go out of business or ICANN can step in after the fact and give their domains to another registar to manage. The new registar would likely reach out to introduce themselves.