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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by wmf »

hedora wrote: post #119
monetus wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“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.

Well, if you don't like Verisign's service, you can always move one county over, and deal with a different TLD domain registrar for .com, just like with your Ford dealer. (As an aside, I'd pay for a better-curated DNS infrastructure. For instance, google's font domains of whatever could just resolve to something federated, and that has TLS certs that are trusted by the alternative infrastructure. Google's chain of tr…

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but it's not correct. Verisign handles all .com domains; all the different registrars are just frontends to Verisign.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by paulddraper »

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.

Well, I can own a Ford.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by poyu »

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.

I've been using .xyz as my primary email address. Everything from banking to shopping, to governmental stuff. The number of sites that gave me problems is probably less than 10 that I can remember. I have around 700 accounts in my password manager so go figure.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by uxp8u61q »

seszett wrote: post #128
throitallaway wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Then you send them to the new website. It's about as much a bother as changing postal addresses.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

kristopolous wrote: post #136
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I appreciate the ideals. I'm entertaining the idea that there's a non-asshole way to do domain brokering that's more like a store and less like a hostage negotiation. Maybe that's not possible.

What is the point of domain brokering? A company shows up to squat on a domain nobody was using and then extort a premium when someone comes along who actually wants to use it. It's pure useless rent seeking. They add no value to anything, they merely tax the public in exchange for nothing.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by dchest »

petecooper wrote: post #22

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

Also increasing due to Verisign:

"We expect our pricing to change from $9.73 to around $10.37 on September 1, so don't wait to lock in our low rate today!"

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by tiltowait »

lxe wrote: post #33
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?

I've been slowly migrating all of my domains over and have been very happy with them. Lower prices, faster website, almost ridiculously clean interface. Even has passkey support.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by nocoiner »

CharlesW wrote: post #113

This is a great opportunity to migrate to registrars like Cloudflare or Porkbun. I bought a great domain name from Namecheap, after which they voided the purchase and made it a $1,500 premium domain. I recommend avoiding them.

I used to hear the best things about namecheap like a decade ago, and have been using them since then, but I’ve heard too many horror stories since then. This comment tipped me over the edge. Porkbun officially has a new customer now.
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