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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by agwa »

Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:

  $0.18 ICANN fee
  $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee
  $5.43 Namecheap's markup
Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:

  $0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
  $9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase)
  $6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase)
So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also increasing their markup.

Edit: fixed error in Namecheap's markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#162

Post by paulmd »

uxp8u61q wrote: post #145
seszett wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

mmhmm, and what happens to their email at the old address?

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#163

Post by p1mrx »

ajonit wrote: post #158

.com is not going anywhere. Verisign sits on gold with the most popular TLD on the planet. Any registry, if offered a chance, will takeover .com in a heartbeat at any price. Continuous price increase is unwarranted.

It seems you're describing exactly why the price increase is warranted.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#164

Post by CameronNemo »

skilled wrote: post #94
CameronNemo wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think because the Verisign price increase is only 7%, and presumably namecheap has a margin on top of that. So increasing the price by 9% and blaming the registry could be considered unreasonable.

But isn't the 7% already agreed upon in the wholesale agreement? https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c... I was under the impression that the other $6 comes from Namecheap, no? Maybe I misunderstood it.

This comment breaks it down. Namecheap is using the opportunity to sneakily increase their markup, which is a bit underhanded IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213773

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#165

Post by donmcronald »

schemescape wrote: post #159

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…

I would say .com, .net, and .ca if you happen to live in Canada.

> 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).

That was Ethos Capital and .org IIRC. They’ve managed to acquire two major registry operators [1]. A huge number of the new gTLDs are under that umbrella. The new gTLDs are a great idea, but (IMO) the poor management and greed that comes along with private equity makes them too risky to use.

1. https://ethoscapital.com/portfolio/

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#166

Post by CameronNemo »

p1mrx wrote: post #163
ajonit wrote: post #158

.com is not going anywhere. Verisign sits on gold with the most popular TLD on the planet. Any registry, if offered a chance, will takeover .com in a heartbeat at any price. Continuous price increase is unwarranted.

It seems you're describing exactly why the price increase is warranted.

No, he is describing a situation where a single company has monopolized the stewardship of a common resource, and the government has not sought out alternative bids despite that being best practice.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#167

Post by inspector-g »

agwa wrote: post #161

Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee $5.43 Namecheap's markup Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee (no change) $9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase) $6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase) So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also…

Here to point out (friendly) a typo - their markup is 13% higher now

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#168

Post by CameronNemo »

Vox_Leone wrote: post #130
kwanbix wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, therefor…

I'm not sure what you're claiming here.

Namecheap has asserted continuously that they do not front run domain registration, and they only charge premium prices for domains when the registry demands it.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#169

Post by AnthonyMouse »

kristopolous wrote: post #138
arp242 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

it's kind of an internet georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

The problem here is that it's really artificial scarcity. The true value of the names is negligible because there are plenty of good names that aren't actually in use, but they are registered.

It's like selling access to sunlight. There is more than enough to go around until some jackass puts a massive wall in the sky and wants to charge money to remove it.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#170

Post by smnrchrds »

agwa wrote: post #161

Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee $5.43 Namecheap's markup Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee (no change) $9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase) $6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase) So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also…

$5.43 -> $6.11 is 12.5% increase, not 1.13%.
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