Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase • Hacker News Board

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#31

Post by cobrabyte » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

Damn, I need to start shopping for a new registrar.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#32

Post by sitzkrieg » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:46 PM UTC

deltalima25 wrote: post #27

Porkbun's pricing is incredibly keen (almost at cost) for those TLDs. What is their business model?

couldnt really tell you but i switched from namecheap to porkbun and recommend it. better prices, better site (and the only non stupid bulk editor ive seen on a frontend), better support and supporting a small company

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#33

Post by lxe » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:46 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #22

Porkbun pricing: .com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com .xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz

Wow. What is porkbun and how is it so much cheaper? Is this worth transferring over?

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#34

Post by azinman2 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

doublerabbit wrote: post #30

What's the reason for the price increases anyway? New root servers?

Inflation something something

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#35

Post by nonoesp » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

What about CloudFlare's "at-cost pricing for registration and renewal," they don't make a profit? [1]

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#36

Post by jimmySixDOF » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

swozey wrote: post #7

.xyz was a terrible TLD. I used it a few years ago and giving people my email address was so annoying. Even some logins didn't accept it. No benefits whatsoever. "yourname@domainxyz.com??"

I have a .live domain I am afraid to advertise for the same reason. But nowadays .xyz has become popular with anyone involved with 3D and it was good value. I swapped everything to Cloudflare as Registrar following advice on HN and their policy not to raise the rates but not much you can do about this kind of thing.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#37

Post by hobs » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #22

Porkbun pricing: .com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com .xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz

Just switched to porkburn for a bunch of domains after google sold to squarespace, works great.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#38

Post by judge2020 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

verst wrote: post #26

petecooper wrote: post #22

Porkbun pricing: .com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com .xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz

For now - but surely they too will increase as part of this. What are the rates after the increase which will impact every registry?

Every registrar*

Registry is like verisign owning .com

Registrar is all of the people who sell you .com domains, by having a contract with the registry.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#39

Post by nonoesp » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

How reliable is Porkbun?

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#40

Post by topicseed » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:51 PM UTC

nonoesp wrote: post #39

How reliable is Porkbun?

Very!