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I wanted to share my experience with Namecheap over the years. I made the switch from GoDaddy to Namecheap back in the day when they launched a notable campaign against elephant poaching around 2009. At that time, Namecheap seemed like a solid choice, even if it meant paying around $100 annually. However, times have changed, and my opinion has shifted. Lately, I've noticed that shared hosting with Namecheap has lost…
I wanted to share my experience with Namecheap over the years. I made the switch from GoDaddy to Namecheap back in the day when they launched a notable campaign against elephant poaching around 2009. At that time, Namecheap seemed like a solid choice, even if it meant paying around $100 annually. However, times have changed, and my opinion has shifted. Lately, I've noticed that shared hosting with Namecheap has lost…
Did you ever have a problem with domain registration?
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>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%.
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Also rent seeking by namecheap. But agreed. It’s parasitic.
>Also rent seeking by namecheap What has it got to do with namecheap when they dont own the registry of .COM or .XYZ?
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.
The people on here complaining about a $1/year price increase while earning $400,000/year as a software engineer never fail to make me laugh.
The cost of a domain for a year is still less than a lunch at Five Guys.
Even when I was working at Subway for $10/hr, I wouldn't sweat a $1/year raise on my domain price.
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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 $5 difference in an expense over the course of a year. At that cost differential, many other factors are more important than price.
> Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I've expressed mine, and my opinion is that it's stupid for anyone to make wild claims on how anyone can or cannot base their decision to buy domain names based on price, and argue that they should be deprived of their right just because they are price-conscious. Do you disagree? > I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds (.…
Yes. No wild claims were made. Arguing over 5$ a year is silly and that's an equally valid opinion.
> argue that they should be deprived of their right
Another of your wholly invented strawmen.
> all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense
Irrelevant strawman. A squatter can take a single domain and say it costs 10k. This has nothing to do with the subject.
I wanted to share my experience with Namecheap over the years. I made the switch from GoDaddy to Namecheap back in the day when they launched a notable campaign against elephant poaching around 2009. At that time, Namecheap seemed like a solid choice, even if it meant paying around $100 annually. However, times have changed, and my opinion has shifted. Lately, I've noticed that shared hosting with Namecheap has lost…
You are mixing domain registration with shared hosting. Did you ever have a problem with domain registration?