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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by redserk »

yellow_lead wrote: post #4

Does anyone trust them to maintain these for 100 years? This is a money grab - "Pay us up front for 100 years of service." No doubt the terms will include plenty of wiggleroom for the company to backtrack on these promises. * we maintain multiple backups of your content across geographically distributed data center * 24/7 Premier Support * The very best managed WordPress experience with unmetered bandwidth, best-in-c…

Plus consider how many people are going to really care about this deal being upheld in 100 years.

Say a buyer of this service dies in 50 years. Would their children and potential grandchildren want to take Wordpress to court over the $15,000 valued in 2023 dollars? I would assume not.

This is a terrible deal for a lot of people. Perhaps the better investment would be putting the $35,000 into buying land somewhere random and hope it appreciates in value for one's descendants.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by comice »

dubcanada wrote: post #3

That kind of implies wordpress will last 100 years... Which is unlikely.

if you want your stuff to stay online for 100 years, then the question should be: is this wordpress deal the most likely way to achieve that (within your budget).

Do you know of an option that is more likely to succeed, for the money?

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by readams »

unnouinceput wrote: post #8
robjan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They own .blog so I am guessing they can at least keep that part of the bargain. As to what level of service they can maintain over 100 years, or whether the web as we know it will continue to exist, remains to be seen.

just like unlimited yahoo mail space, or google's unlimited email space or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no? I would not trust anything that's long term more than 10 years, and even that is a stretch. I agree with GP, it's a cash grab.

Google never had unlimited email space. They launched at 1GB (which seemed huge) and increased it over the years, but it was never unlimited.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by ipaddr »

redserk wrote: post #21
yellow_lead wrote: post #4

Does anyone trust them to maintain these for 100 years? This is a money grab - "Pay us up front for 100 years of service." No doubt the terms will include plenty of wiggleroom for the company to backtrack on these promises. * we maintain multiple backups of your content across geographically distributed data center * 24/7 Premier Support * The very best managed WordPress experience with unmetered bandwidth, best-in-c…

Plus consider how many people are going to really care about this deal being upheld in 100 years. Say a buyer of this service dies in 50 years. Would their children and potential grandchildren want to take Wordpress to court over the $15,000 valued in 2023 dollars? I would assume not. This is a terrible deal for a lot of people. Perhaps the better investment would be putting the $35,000 into buying land somewhere ran…

Think about it for a second, some people may want their website to live on past their death. This is a way to keep the domain alive for at least 100 years.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by jeremyjh »

Ayesh wrote: post #16

It's $38K for 100 years. Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust already, and other registries have jacked up prices in the previous years. But even at a 10% increase a year (likely the case for .com), the domain renewals will cost about $5K for 100 years. With hosting, support, and WordPress being able to run for 100 years,…

Am I the only one horrified at the thought that people will still be using Wordpress in 100 years? I can't really imagine the world in which that happens, it has to have the kind of bleakness to it that in its own way surpasses cyberpunk dystopias.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by dbg31415 »

This is what good marketing looks like.

Look at all the people talking about this.

And this is an excellent way for WordPress to talk about stability and disaster recovery... in ways that aren't nearly as boring as we've done in the past. It's just adding a human spin to why dev ops and infrastructure and security matters. =P

"100 years" is a much better way of saying "5-9s!" Ha.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by jeremyjh »

ipaddr wrote: post #26
redserk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus consider how many people are going to really care about this deal being upheld in 100 years. Say a buyer of this service dies in 50 years. Would their children and potential grandchildren want to take Wordpress to court over the $15,000 valued in 2023 dollars? I would assume not. This is a terrible deal for a lot of people. Perhaps the better investment would be putting the $35,000 into buying land somewhere ran…

Think about it for a second, some people may want their website to live on past their death. This is a way to keep the domain alive for at least 100 years.

No, its a way to pay 5x domain cost for a promise from a corporation.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by ohgodplsno »

jeremyjh wrote: post #27
Ayesh wrote: post #16

It's $38K for 100 years. Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust already, and other registries have jacked up prices in the previous years. But even at a 10% increase a year (likely the case for .com), the domain renewals will cost about $5K for 100 years. With hosting, support, and WordPress being able to run for 100 years,…

Am I the only one horrified at the thought that people will still be using Wordpress in 100 years? I can't really imagine the world in which that happens, it has to have the kind of bleakness to it that in its own way surpasses cyberpunk dystopias.

Are you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ?

Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it works damn well. Wordpress is 40% of all sites in the world.

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