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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by patmcc »

Someone1234 wrote: post #98
patmcc wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare wants you on their platform so they can sell you everything else - it's a loss leader. Porkbun I don't know. Namecheap, I think domains are their primary business - they need to make money on them.

Can I say something stupid but maybe true: Do you want to be on a domain registrar for whom registration is a loss-leader or their core business? Like, I like cheaper too, but even just in the last few years I can think of a few "loss-leader" registrars who decided they no longer wanted that division operating at a loss and scrapped it. Google Domains being the most popular example[0], but Gandi[1] is another where t…

Yep, I'm still on NameCheap, for all the same reasons. They're not the cheapest any longer, but I've also never had an issues with them. And I like knowing that they're making a profit on me - keeps them likely to continue doing what they're doing.

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

water9 wrote: post #96

How would someone go about registering domains on their own? Why do I have to go through like GoDaddy where every year it seems to exponentially increase in price? Does anybody have information on how to cut out the middleman?

Verisign has a monopoly on .com domains and everyone else is effectively a reseller. When they raise the price, so does everyone else.

There are other top level domains and some of them are cheaper.

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Post by benbristow »

monetus wrote: post #60
CameronNemo wrote: post #2

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.

It is a monopoly. - .com domains have the brand-recognition and trust behind them. Other TLDs still feel 'knock-off' especially for lesser technically aware people.

Would you trust myshop.com or myshop.xyz more?

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Post by bsimpson »

nonoesp wrote: 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/

how hard is it to transfer?

i was part of the godaddy > namecheap exodus, and it was such a pain in the ass that i never wanted to touch it again.

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Post by arp242 »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #118
kristopolous wrote: post #45

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…

> If the most you can legally get is say $5000, then people wouldn't collect and squat in such giant volumes Quite the opposite. They squat on giant volumes so they can stick ordinary people for $2500 instead of $10. They should just prohibit selling domain names. It would solve 99% of the problem because then they couldn't use domain parking pages or otherwise openly offer them for sale. Someone would still manage t…

> They should just prohibit selling domain names.

So Joe Squatter will retain ownership, but permits company.com to use it for 99 years for the same price as he would have sold it for.

Or something like that... I don't really disagree with you as such, but where there's a will, there's way, and never underestimate the creativity and twattery people will come up with to make a buck. Banning this will be hard, and I'm not sure it's worth the downsides.

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Post by echelon »

9g3890fj2 wrote: post #10

.XYZ domains were already too difficult to use for anything other than a regular site since they have such a bad reputation (however warranted it may be) as being used for spam. Not sure what the point is in paying even more for a TLD that's discriminated against by default.

.xyz is one of the most popular TLDs for crypto and web3, but it has a horrible email spam reputation and some gateways blacklist the entire TLD. With the exception of a16z, VCs aren't funding these businesses much anymore, either.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/28/wtf-is-xyz/

The biggest user might be block.xyz.

.io, .co, and .ai are still the most popular alternative TLDs for startups.

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Post by seszett »

throitallaway wrote: post #95
thayne wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you already have a .com domain that all your customers are familiar with, its not like you can just switch to a different domain. _Maybe_ I could excuse this if it was only for new registrations, but left the price for renewals the same, at least for existing domain owners.

If you have customers familiar with your domain, annual domain renewal is an extremely negligible cost to your business.

What if you have family or friends "familiar with your domain", but no paying customers?

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Post by Vox_Leone »

kwanbix wrote: post #72
durpleDrank wrote: post #57

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?

>Did you ever have a problem with domain registration?

Recently, I painstakingly created a five-letter domain name, and researched extensively to see if it was already taken [I don't use registrar lookup and advise you not to either]. I verified that it was totally free and unpublished.

When using the namecheap control panel to register it, I was advised that it was a "premium" domain [why thanks!] and that, therefore, I would have to pay a corresponding amount.

Summary: My beautiful domain was simply hijacked and if I'm ever to register it I will have to participate in an auction. I was able to register the corresponding domain without problems, on equal terms with all other competitors, through Registro.br[0] - although it can't be as cool as a pure .com domain.

Would you consider this a problem?

The domain registration industry in the United States is completely prostituted and I'm not happy to say it.

[0]https://registro.br

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