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I am very confused by this. What's the purpose? Why not just improve Namecheap?
It’s an entirely new brand and platform that’s been in the works for a while.
Ok. But why?
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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Wow! Porkbun! I nearly forgot about that place! Shamelessly been using Namecheap for a while now... their UI is a bit old school but they have some of the best prices around (at least did)
> their UI is a bit old school This honestly is a (positive) feature IMO.
Why's that? I've always found Namecheap's UI to be pretty bad - slow, inconsistent on mobile and takes several clicks to find the list of domains I actually own.
What about that is positive?
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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 ICANN too can play this game, and ask some outrageous fee every year for your TLD
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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.
> You tell people to use the new email.
Easier said than done. For most people that probably means updating literally hundreds of sites (and better hope all of those have a way to change your email). Not to mention telling your contacts to use the new email, and hope they don't forget and send an important email to the wrong domain.
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$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?
Google just sold it’s registrar business to Squarespace, so, maybe not.
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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
1. Get word lists for many languages, as well as vulgar word lists.
2. Generate Markov models for each word list, to generate words and score how much they sound like a regular or vulgar word in each language.
3. Make a list of words that sound like they could be a word in many different languages, but are not words and do not sound like vulgar words.
4. Find which of these words aren't domain names yet.Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
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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).
It's true that you have to use their DNS, but that's it. You don't have to use their CDN (it's easy to turn off) and you don't have to use their SSL certs.
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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
1. Get word lists for many languages, as well as vulgar word lists. 2. Generate Markov models for each word list, to generate words and score how much they sound like a regular or vulgar word in each language. 3. Make a list of words that sound like they could be a word in many different languages, but are not words and do not sound like vulgar words. 4. Find which of these words aren't domain names yet.
This is a logical approach until you have to explain how you came up with the name “Themicals”. If you’re selling a SaaS product maybe things like “Onychodon” may be a good fit but would kill you in the elevator pitch.
Btw, both of those names were made with Markov as you described.
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.xyz is one of the most popular TLDs for crypto and web3, but it has a horrible email spam reputation and some gateways blacklist the entire TLD. With the exception of a16z, VCs aren't funding these businesses much anymore, either. https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/28/wtf-is-xyz/ The biggest user might be block.xyz. .io, .co, and .ai are still the most popular alternative TLDs for startups.
> .io, .co, and .ai are still the most popular alternative TLDs for startups. is there a good link for this ranking? i'm curious as to 4th place and below too. what position does .app or .tech or .cloud come, etc.
you can lookup domain count for TLDs here
https://deployment.rdap.org/ (sorting works)
Re: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
#340The ICANN wholesale prices to registrars, from 1st of September are $9.59 per domain (+ $0.18 ICANN fee per domain) for registrations and renewals [1] [1]: https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...
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/
I have had a good experience with Cloudflare's registry service over the last couple of years.
I have taken to gradually pushing my registrations out as far as they can go. I just occasionally add years onto domains I buy, so as to lock in the $9 price for that term. Seems like an excellent way to avoid inflationary price increases, or general pricing creep.