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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by jfoster »

tiffanyh wrote: post #196
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…

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

Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable.

Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So they plan to just sell to Google, Amazon or Microsoft in the future, and we don't yet know which one of those it's going to be?

Even if they had a small margin, does that mean that there's poor quality support, despite domains being mission-critical to businesses?

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by timbit42 »

marcosdumay wrote: post #83
politelemon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are Cloudflare and Porkbun keeping the cost still 'low', isn't everyone affected by Verisign's increases?

I expect Cludfare to operate at a loss. Porkbun is harder to explain, maybe they will announce price increases soon.

At least two other comments on this post says their prices are also going up soon.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by skinner927 »

echelon wrote: post #183
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…

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…

This must be a Godaddy ad or you’ve completely missed the multitude of posts where Godaddy has royally screwed over their own customer.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by Tokumei-no-hito »

jfoster wrote: post #291
tiffanyh wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable. Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So they plan to just sell to Google, Amazon or Microsoft in the future, and we don't yet know which one of those it's going to be? Even if they had a small margin, does that mean that there's poor quality support, despite domains being mission-critical to businesses?

Probably not google. They just sold google domains off

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by skinner927 »

Spivak wrote: post #194
autoexec wrote: post #62

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> I'm ok if this leads to de-squatting. It wont. If anything it'll just consolidate the squatted domains into fewer hands. Progressively increasing prices for each domain purchased seems pretty reasonable, but unless it raises very quickly it'll still end up being worth it to a wealthy few. Combining those raising prices with capping the resell price of domains seems like it would actually work! Someone somewhere mig…

> It wont. If anything it'll just consolidate the squatted domains into fewer hands. This is actually great if your end is to get rid of squatting, consolidate the market into a number of throats that's feasible to choke and then do it via regulation.

Regulations have never worked when there are few throats to choke. The few either band together and create their own regulatory association or bribe, sorry, lobby their way out of it.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by danjoredd »

gabereiser wrote: post #290
danjoredd wrote: post #241

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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.

I bought mine for about 100$ for 10 years which is about 10$ a year. If it went 10x times the price, then it would be $1000 that I would owe when it comes time to renew

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by echelon »

skinner927 wrote: post #293
echelon wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This must be a Godaddy ad or you’ve completely missed the multitude of posts where Godaddy has royally screwed over their own customer.

Did you read my linked post?

I've had to acquire some domain names via Godaddy recently, and I do like their management console. I really dislike the company, though. They screwed me out of one of my domains when I was just a teenager.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

kristopolous wrote: post #218
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #146

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What is the point of domain brokering? A company shows up to squat on a domain nobody was using and then extort a premium when someone comes along who actually wants to use it. It's pure useless rent seeking. They add no value to anything, they merely tax the public in exchange for nothing.

that argument can be given to stock trading, art and stamp collecting, and basically any speculative investment. Are you suggesting there should be none of that?

The value of stock speculation is that it gives the original owner a way to raise capital for a company that could make money later but doesn't yet. It's how founders and growing businesses raise money. And the prospect of speculators being able to sell to future speculators makes the original speculators willing to pay more to the business itself.

A speculator in these markets also has the incentive to preserve the art or stamp and protect it from damage. Which also applies to stocks, because the speculator has the incentive to vote their shares in a way that maximizes the value of the company.

None of that is happening with domain names. The squatter didn't create the name, no one did and no one needs to be compensated for that. If no one "maintains" the name it doesn't degrade in any way, it just goes unregistered until someone wants to actually use it.

Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

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Post by RexM »

tiffanyh wrote: post #196
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…

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

I moved ~10 domains from namecheap to porkbun awhile back, since they were already cheaper.
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