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Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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#42How do other registrars compare with Namecheap? I've been using them for a long time and haven't had any problems with their services, so I stopped keeping track of how the industry has evolved.
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#43What about CloudFlare's "at-cost pricing for registration and renewal," they don't make a profit? [1] [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Not off domain registration, clearly. It's a loss-leader and gets you in their product. Significantly cheaper than any of the "low cost" registrars I've seen for `.net` and I already used them for DNS anyway.
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#44I 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.
Additionally there is a good chance that a different registrar would buy it up to acquire the customers and then transfer them to their system, etc.
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#45I'm ok if this leads to de-squatting.
I wish there was some kind of bulk price increase.
I know all the issues but if you own 1,000 domains you're just sitting on, that 1,001th you're trying to snatch should be more expensive
Hoarding domains for ransom shouldn't be a business model
I guess another model is you could regulate the transfer and selling of domains to a certain cap. If the most you can legally get is say $5000, then people wouldn't collect and squat in such giant volumes
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#46What about CloudFlare's "at-cost pricing for registration and renewal," they don't make a profit? [1] [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Their prices are going to increase too (by $0.62 if my math is right).
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#47$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.
It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. Namecheap has always been good for me in terms of service and reliability. I only own a few domains but if $15/year was unaffordable I think I'd just let them expire.
> It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names.
I don't think you have a say on what others do with their money, or what could have possibly led you to believe you had.
I've bought domains for my employer before. Domain name pricing was absolutely a factor in the decision-making process. Only a moron pays $20 for something they could pay $10 instead.
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#48Porkbun pricing: .com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com .xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz
I use porkbun for 10 domains now for the last 5 years. They are great. Highly recommend
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#49Porkbun 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?
Domains are a loss leader product for everyone in the internet/hosting industry. Porkbun’s goal is to get you to buy secondary products.
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#50For years Google Domain allowed buying and renewing all tld they supported in Turkey's TRY regardless of registrant nationality and card issuance country.
I just checked for .com and its TRY195, around $7.17. For .xyz its TRY75, around $2.7.
Too bad they're selling to Squarespace. I just renewed my .dev for TRY75 there few days ago. Everywhere else .dev is around $10.