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Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds of his employer's time worrying about a $5 difference in an expense over the course of a year. At that cost differential, many other factors are more important than price.

> Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum.

I've expressed mine, and my opinion is that it's stupid for anyone to make wild claims on how anyone can or cannot base their decision to buy domain names based on price, and argue that they should be deprived of their right just because they are price-conscious.

Do you disagree?

> I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds (...)

Only a moron buys domain names without assessing their availability, and this also covers variants including based on TLDs. A company does not simply buy example.com while leaving out typosquatter variants like example.org, example.xyz, example.io, example.co.uk, etc. If you had any experience in the domain, you would know that all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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I'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…

> I'm ok if this leads to de-squatting.

It wont. If anything it'll just consolidate the squatted domains into fewer hands.

Progressively increasing prices for each domain purchased seems pretty reasonable, but unless it raises very quickly it'll still end up being worth it to a wealthy few. Combining those raising prices with capping the resell price of domains seems like it would actually work! Someone somewhere might find it worth it to buy their 600th domain at a huge price, but if they can only sell that domain for a small fraction of what they paid for it they'll lose money if they aren't planning to use it themselves.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #42

How 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.

I like/use Dynadot: cheap, free privacy, and they pass on the ability to domain taste (get refunds within 72 hours).

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #35

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/

I wouldn't want my domain to be a marketing expenditure for a tech giant. Then you get a Google Domains style shitshow.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds of his employer's time worrying about a $5 difference in an expense over the course of a year. At that cost differential, many other factors are more important than price.

I am not a business, I'm an individual with limited funds. The cost factor is pretty important here.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #60

How is this anything but rent seeking on the part of Verisign? Edit: not surprised how this got regulatory approval... https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/09/website-domain-more...

“I think calling them a monopoly at this point is an unfair comparison. Verisign is no more a monopoly than your Ford dealer is a monopoly,” Redl said. “It’s not the original days of the internet where that was the only top-level domain.” It is bothers me that the monopoly is excused this way.

When I live somewhere and the owner of the water company decides they need to increase prices 9% despite having lower costs, they are definitely exercising their monopoly, even when there are several other utilities coming to my home and so many other kinds of beverage I might acquire.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Also rent seeking by namecheap What has it got to do with namecheap when they dont own the registry of .COM or .XYZ?

I'm not saying they are doing anything right or wrong but they are probably a profitable company who could have theoretically spared to absorb some (or all) of it without passing it through to their customers Instead, they are passing it on 100%.

Why should namecheap subsidize the cost? That makes 0 sense and I say it as a namecheap customer. I don't see how its fair for them to cover the cost and I don't want them to do so because I am a happy customer and don't want them to go out of business or lower their product quality.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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post #54
post #42

How 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.

Porkbun has provided me better service at an extremely competitive price.

I just moved all my domains there. Porkbun's UI is fast and simple, I love it.
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