Computers got slower, more expensive and more power hungry thus Namecheap costs went up.
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Selling headline products at or near break even and then making your margin on add ons is a fairly standard pricing strategy. Doesn't mean they plan to sell any time soon. I do agree that having something so mission critical be managed by someone making practically nothing off of you is concerning, but I dont think that changes all that much at double their price. Either way the second something goes wrong, you leavi…
Those are great points. Agree with everything, except does Porkbun actually make a decent margin on any of their offerings? They all seem quite cheap, but it's possible that some of the hosting could be shared out to a ridiculous degree, so it might be a bit difficult to say for sure.
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
You're making me nostalgic for the first time they retired one of their chat offerings...
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#324Namecheap'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…
https://www.infomaniak.com is currently selling .com's at 8.88€ (9.7 $). Not much margin
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well, my credit and debit cards have my actual name printed on them, "ø" and everything.
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#326Is 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'm not sure why, but the .uk domain was the cheapest option on Cloudflare when I bought a couple domains a few months ago. They were $4.30 per year, so I bought several years of two domains since they were so cheap. I don't live in the UK, but it seems like a no-brainer because it feels like that TLD wouldn't get rejected as a spam domain like the other cheap ones might.
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you bite the bullet send out an email to your customers that you're moving domains and why, rip the band-aid off and move on with your life.
Unless you are hosting an email service and now all your users have to bite the bullet and send out emails to all their contacts, right.
Yep, there is no magic bullet to "thing I rent from someone else who has nigh complete discretion on price decides to price me out." You either regulate (which is what happened here that limits the price hikes to 7% yoy) or figure something out. If you can't leave or retaliate then you're basically proving explicitly why they're able to increase prices to the point of ruining you.
At a certain price you just pony up the $200k to ICANN become your own registrar and then actually own your domains.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Seems like it'd be easier to get throat choking regulation in place before ownership is consolidated into a small number of people with deep pockets, vast resources, and disproportionate influence. The nice thing about policy is that it can be applied to huge numbers of entities instantly. Why risk creating behemoths too big to fight before you even start?
Because big behemoths have legal departments and compliance officers and actually have to follow the law because many eyes are on them constantly. Deep pockets make juicy lawsuit targets. You're right that the law applies to many people at once but you only have to actually follow the law if you're big enough for someone to care about you.
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations
in fact the latin transliteration for English is off from the native pronunciation
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#330How would someone go about registering domains on their own? Why do I have to go through like GoDaddy where every year it seems to exponentially increase in price? Does anybody have information on how to cut out the middleman?
The public Domain Name System that we typically think of as "the public internet" is a hierarchy which is ultimately managed by ICANN. ICANN delegates management of various TLDs to various registries , (for example, .com is managed by Verisign). In order to register a domain with a registry, you must be a registar that is officially accredited by a registry. GoDaddy is one of these , but there are many other alternat…
Great info, much appreciated.