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Ted from Namecheap here. We have launched a new beta registrar, Spaceship.com, which has wholesale pricing on most extensions. A reminder that wholesale pricing is set by each TLD’s registry, not us. Would love your feedback on this early version of Spaceship.
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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/
> as long as you don't need custom nameservers Are you saying that it's not possible to use your own nameservers for domains purchased through Cloudflare?
Kinda, but enterprise only?
There's also vanity DNS for business and enterprise plans - but AFAIU that's basically just slapping another name on cloudflare DNS - not ability to point ns records to non-cf servers?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/additional-options/cus...
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…
> .tk allows free registration, so that seems promising, but I doubt it will last .tk has been free for years and years. i think it's lasted ok. it won't be good for search engine results though, and probably isn't good to use for email. it's good if you have no money.. like those free1000.hostingforyou.net hosts. you can put together a warez site from the street!
Ted from Namecheap here. We have launched a new beta registrar, Spaceship.com, which has wholesale pricing on most extensions. A reminder that wholesale pricing is set by each TLD’s registry, not us. Would love your feedback on this early version of Spaceship.
I consolidated my domains on Namecheap, but this behavior pisses me off enough to move ALL of them. And I have dozens. Right after I post this screed I'm going to deactivate auto-renewal on every goddamned one. Don't rip us off and then launch a new service and point to it saying, "Hey look, since you caught us ripping you off, try this one!" Unbelievable.
Spaceship has been in the works for years and it’s something we’re excited about, hence why I’m letting you know about it.
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mmhmm, and what happens to their email at the old address?
You tell people to use the new email. I don't understand this, if you make a thing the root of your identity then you have get everyone to migrate when it changes. There is no solution to this problem that doesn't involve implementing USPS mail forwarding for email.
Ted from Namecheap here. We have launched a new beta registrar, Spaceship.com, which has wholesale pricing on most extensions. A reminder that wholesale pricing is set by each TLD’s registry, not us. Would love your feedback on this early version of Spaceship.
I am very confused by this. What's the purpose? Why not just improve Namecheap?
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We are committed to having competitive pricing at Spaceship for the long term. If you’re concerned, you can also lock in current pricing with multi-year registration. Fwiw, you could say the same about anyone else in the market. Wholesale pricing is controlled by the registry, retail pricing can be updated by the registrar at any time.
No. You're creating a pain in the ass for Namecheap customers. Your only chance of keeping my business (and probably that of other pissed-off customers) is to give us a one-click way to migrate all of our domains to your new "less of a rip-off" brand. I'm not about to reward a company that WASTES MY TIME by shuffling my business between THEIR brands. I will make damned sure that my next registrar has nothing to do wi…
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Namecheap should use some of this new revenue to fix their UI. Owning more than 10 domains on Namecheap is a burden. Trying to manage more than 50 is an outright headache [1]. I'm nearly to the point where I'm going to transfer all of my domains just to escape the poor management console. I've been giving them this same complaint for awhile [2]. I'm no fan of Godaddy [3], but they really did a good job with bulk mana…
I literally moved away from Namecheap when they did a UI redesign many years ago. Their old control panel was ugly but functional. Their new one looked much more "modern", but was way less information dense, and they introduced jank and made stuff take more clicks and hid stuff behind collapsed-by-default menus iirc. They also made their billing details UI no longer accept the letter "ø". The billing details UI which…
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Is it just domain registration? Do you have to use Cloudflare for DNS if you register a domain with them or can you set the DNS somewhere else?
Yes, you have to use their DNS, which is tightly integrated with their CDN in ways that are fine for some people but others may find undesirable (e.g. they automatically obtain SSL certificates for your domains).
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I think Hyatt and Hilton have a lot stronger brand names than "a friendly lady named Shiela" but Airbnb built an empire on the latter.
Comeback when anyone builds an iconic brand around .$BRAND_NAME or even .museum Seriously. It’s not an issue of brand recognition. It’s an issue of decades of basic phishing defense.