Pff! I remember when .com domains were free! I owned several. Then they upped it from free to $100. And I dropped pretty much all but one as I was a starving student. I owned home.com at one point.
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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#282Ted 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.
Long time, big user of Namecheap here.
I'm so confused about Spaceship.
Why would I use Spaceship over Namecheap, and vice-versa?
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#283$15.88 per .com is pretty steep , damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
Steep? .com used to be $100 for two years. That was the registrar price. It's cheap now to me.
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#284Ted 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.
Yeah, nah.
What's the point of this? If you think this pricing model is sustainable, why won't you just lower the Namecheap prices?
It feels like a bait. What service are you gonna launch after you jack up the prices to the moon on Spaceship? How about Submarine?
Also I already noticed deceptive pricing, ICANN fees are added in the checkout instead of being in the listed price the domain.
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#285Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t imagine a world where Google would move their primary domain from .com to .io. Over the past 20 years, I’ve witnessed numerous successful restaurants move locations due to rent hikes that are still in business in their new locations indicating continued success. I’m having trouble thinking of any major companies that have changed their domains after already being established and successful. Migrating domains…
Discord moved from discordapp.com to discord.com
I’m willing to bet discord.com was purchased from another owner/squatter once their business grew large enough to justify the expense.
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#287Earlier 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.
Precisely, Not to defend Namecheap but we are in a different time. I don't know everyone's age on HN. But If they were just 40s, they would have lived in a zero interest era for 15 years and nearly all of their professional lives. We are having inflation, cost of money going up. The margin that used to work for Namecheap may no longer works for them now. And you have plenty of option outside of NameCheap. And again, none of this could be called rent seeking.
Of course there is an argument in US and Tech today ( as shown in many of the comment ) that margin is somehow evil. And should be as low as possible. I guess that is a different argument.
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#288Earlier 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.
Hence, a x100 price hike on .com would ensure that low-cost domain parking is squeezed out. It’s not linear. A domain at $2000, which costs the squatter $14 a year, would certainly go down by 75% if it costed the squatter $200 a year. Because the prospect of keeping it for 10 years goes from $140 to $2000, so the seller would make more benefit selling at $500 today than $2500 in 10 years. A squatter who’s squatting 1…
Yeah, no. That's entirely contrary to the point of the domain name system. It was always designed with a capitalistic, first-come-first-served, mentality. Stake claim to your domain and hold it. The issue is those domains that are parked and never used should be forfeit, recycled back into the pool. DNS should work both ways. You're free to add records, so long as they can verify usage. It's the last part that isn't effective right now. Some way to prove that it's being used other than a parking service. Anything but a parking service.
A few times I've given up squatting on a domain simply because I thought someone else would probably do better with the domain name. I was right a few times. A few made it into the hands of martech unfortunately but some of my gaming domains have now grown into decent sites under the current stewardship. It makes me happy.
I also think there should be a gTLD for people. You're own personal domain, that's yours, and no one else's, for life. You're free to post up whatever within the law of your land. We already have things like social security numbers and the like. Why not have http://john.jingle.heimer.schmitt.id? Apple thought about this a long time ago and registered me.com with the thought that every apple customer would have @me.com (which they do!). There's no clear way around this mess other than more gTLD's.
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#289Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hence, a x100 price hike on .com would ensure that low-cost domain parking is squeezed out. It’s not linear. A domain at $2000, which costs the squatter $14 a year, would certainly go down by 75% if it costed the squatter $200 a year. Because the prospect of keeping it for 10 years goes from $140 to $2000, so the seller would make more benefit selling at $500 today than $2500 in 10 years. A squatter who’s squatting 1…
It would also make a lot of legitimate .com owners have to give up their domains. IDK that I would be able to pay that much for the domain I own for my personal blog
same. I've had my personal domain name for a long time. I wouldn't keep it if it cost me property tax.