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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

Vanclief wrote: post #68
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Why should namecheap subsidize the cost

Why are they entitled to have their profit margins protected no matter what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage-price_spiral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Certain businesses get made obsolete over time. Namecheap decided to pass along 100% of the cost, what if their competitor passes along 50%?

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by 9g3890fj2 »

poyu wrote: post #144
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.

It's not the receiving that's the problem, but the sending. Even with all necessary records in place and using a reputable email provider isn't enough in a lot of cases. You'll just end up in spam.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by jonathankoren »

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.

TLDs may sort of be fungible, but not really. No one looks at widgets.com and widgets.tube as identical, whereas no one really cares about one car versus another beyond feelings of personal worth.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by xd1936 »

scblzn wrote: post #12

The ICANN wholesale prices to registrars, from 1st of September are $9.59 per domain (+ $0.18 ICANN fee per domain) for registrations and renewals [1] [1]: https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...

And as long as you don't need custom nameservers, Cloudflare's Domain Registrar sells domains at that price.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by 0x0000000 »

CharlesW wrote: post #109
0x0000000 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's on the registry, not the registrar. Point your anger at whoever owns that TLD.

So does your response mean (1) "take it easy on Namecheap because this kind of bait-and-switch is common among registrars", or (2) "take it easy on Namecheap because it was unintentional incompetence"?

I'm saying take it easy on Namecheap because it's out of their control, and would have happened regardless of the registrar you used for that particular domain. The incompetence is on the part of the registry, for not having properly identified the given domain as premium until post-registration.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by schemescape »

Is there a TLD that has a reasonable chance to stay low cost?

I just want a domain for hobby projects and I don’t really care which TLD as long as it’s short, but I don’t like having to guess which TLDs are trying to lure people with low prices, only to suddenly raise prices in the future (I’ve seen this happen a few times).

I’d also like to use a TLD that is unlikely to be bought by private equity (I vaguely recall this being attempted with a popular TLD; edit: it was .org, but the purchase got blocked after an outcry).

I just heard that .tk allows free registration, so that seems promising, but I doubt it will last since there are real costs involved.

For now, I’m sticking with .com because it’s the most popular and I’m hoping that, as such, price hikes will cause enough outrage to be addressed eventually, but I’m hoping there’s a better option!

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by BXlnt2EachOther »

verst wrote: post #26
petecooper wrote: post #22

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

For now - but surely they too will increase as part of this. What are the rates after the increase which will impact every registry?

Cloudflare upcoming price changes -- yes, they like other registrars will be affected.

The announcement page might be behind a login, couldn't seem to link it directly

  .com    $9.15 -> $9.77
  .xyz    $9.33 -> $10.18
  .org    $10.11 (today's price... not affected?)
  .net    $10.10 (today's price... not affected?)
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