Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

namecheap.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

271–280 of 352 posts

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#271

Post by sigio »

nerdjon wrote: post #140

I have been a bit reluctant to complain too much about prices going up recently since in many ways it feels like a hopeless battle. But in this particular case, I don't quite understand why Verisign needs to increase the cost of this. I can't imagine the infrastructure costs are really that high for this. So I am really curious where this extra money is really going? Sure it's not much, but I would still like a justi…

They dont _NEED_ to raise their pricing, but the contract they have with ICANN states they _MAY_ raise their prices with a fixed percentage, which means as much that they WILL raise their prices with this percentage every year. It's not like you are going to migrate your domains to a different TLD.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#272

Post by HWR_14 »

hk1337 wrote: post #245
hnarn wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever since I found out that Cloudflare does not charge any markup on the domains you buy from them, I've decided to buy all my domains from them. They are very transparent with their pricing, and also has a notice about this increase; in their case it will go up from $9.15 to $9.77 -- which seems to check out with the sum of the registry fee plus the ICANN fee.

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?

I've heard people suggest you should split registrar and dns solution, but I don't really understand why that would be best practice.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#273

Post by sigio »

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…

.eu is quite cheap, and will most likely stay this way, same for many cc-tld's like .nl and .de

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#274

Post by verve_rat »

Jack000 wrote: post #244
gabereiser wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also the most exhausted. The min char available now is in the 7 range. Prefixes and/or suffixes and even hyphens are being used to find land. It’s brutal.

There are still some good 6 letter names out there, if you're willing to use a brandable (made-up) word. Some I randomly made just now: pletha.com encryx.com oxiply.com

> oxiply.com

Toilet paper infused with oxycontin?

I like this game.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#275

Post by no_wizard »

verve_rat wrote: post #274
Jack000 wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still some good 6 letter names out there, if you're willing to use a brandable (made-up) word. Some I randomly made just now: pletha.com encryx.com oxiply.com

> oxiply.com Toilet paper infused with oxycontin? I like this game.

I thought toilet paper infused with OxiClean, for that freshness

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#276

Post by 0x0000000 »

CharlesW wrote: post #201
0x0000000 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> I'm saying take it easy on Namecheap because it's out of their control… If we assume that Namecheap is incapable of malice, then it means Namecheap's systems and/or processes are broken. (Registry agreements don't allow registries to retroactively reclassify domains as "premium".)

> Registry agreements don't allow registries to retroactively reclassify domains as "premium".

On what do you base this? Registration agreements allow quite a lot in favor of registrars and registries.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#277

Post by Jack000 »

verve_rat wrote: post #274
Jack000 wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still some good 6 letter names out there, if you're willing to use a brandable (made-up) word. Some I randomly made just now: pletha.com encryx.com oxiply.com

> oxiply.com Toilet paper infused with oxycontin? I like this game.

oxycotton.com and oxyloo.com are taken unfortunately

washluv.com is still available though

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#278

Post by hotshiitake »

HWR_14 wrote: post #272
hk1337 wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I've heard people suggest you should split registrar and dns solution, but I don't really understand why that would be best practice.

> I've heard people suggest you should split registrar and dns solution, but I don't really understand why that would be best practice.

Simplifies migration. If your DNS records are tied to the registrar, and you need to move the record (maybe selling or moving to another registrar), then you can run into a problem where the DNS records are not accessible while the name is being transferred. Not an issue if the nameserver record points somewhere else.

Anecdotally, many registrars I have worked with (including Namecheap/GoDaddy) have terrible DNS management consoles/APIs, and limited options for access control. I have also had issues with certain TLDs not being available to move to better registrars, though I'm not sure if that is still an issue. Either way, moving DNS to a separate, standard provider definitely makes things easier to manage, especially if you are working with a lot of domains across different registrars.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#279

Post by qingcharles »

usr1106 wrote: post #268
mort96 wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Interesting, your passport cannot contain an ø (in the machine readable part). What is the allowed character set for names on a credit card?

That's interesting. I'd never thought of it before. I just tried to find images, but can't find any example credit cards with non "Roman" lettering, just like passports.

It sucks because the transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

#280

Post by brewdad »

agwa wrote: post #198
tiffanyh wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$9.73 renewals at Porkbun. https://porkbun.com/tld/com

That's presumably going to increase on September 1 or else they'll be taking a $0.04 loss every time they sell a .com.

There is definitely an increase coming for Porkbun but it is still a tiny amount. I just moved four domains from Namecheap to Porkbun.
Post reply on HN