Customer lock in? Who owns the domain, the customer or wordpress?
IMO never tie your domain registration to your hosting or any other service you run through that domain. You'll regret it as soon as you need to move something.
WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations
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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations
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This is one of the major differences between digital and paper: digital requires constant upkeep. If you'd replace the inscriptions on pyrymids and obelisks as well as the various old documents with their digital equivalent we'd have lost them long ago. And they will still be there long after their current digital equivalents have turned to dust. The only defense that digital has is boundless copies, in the hope that…
We have the Internet Archive though, so you’re really just paying for search engine discoverability and… domain name squatting as a dead person. I’d bet that the Internet Archive will last longer than Wordpress as an organization.
There are a lot of forces that would love to see the IA disappear. I wouldn't bet on them any more than I would on any other copy. If you really think something is worth preserving print it out on acid free paper or archival quality microfiche.
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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.
>or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no
As far as I'm aware American Airlines only revoked two lifetime AAirpasses of the 60+ sold; both were accused of using their companion pass fraudulently. From what I remember one was accused of approaching people at the airport and attempting to sell his companion seat, the other was accused of using his companion pass to book a seat next to his for a nonexistent person so he wouldn't have to sit next to anyone.
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I'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.
Take yourself back to 1960. Mankind has never once been to space, though there have been endless efforts to achieve such. The next year Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, Alan Shepherd follows shortly behind him. The following year the President gives a riveting speech about putting a man on the Moon. 7 years later, we land the first man on the Moon. And then do it repeatedly - to the point that dozens of m…
Another day older and deeper in debt.
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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.
I'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.
And what kinds of tools do you think will be used to the assemble data center racks where you wish to “upload” yourself? :-P
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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.
I agree, it seems crazy to think the human race will still be around to have blogs in 100 years time
It’s crazy to think that the human race will not be around.
Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations
#57$38k at 1% interest = $380 per year, forever. Current US Treasury rates are > 5%, meaning > $1900 per year. What is the overlap between people who have $38k disposable, don't realize this, and also think paying $38k for a Wordpress domain lease is a good idea? I can only assume this has to be some weird publicity stunt, which is probably quite clever, because here we are talking about Wordpress.
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#58After a frustrating incident long ago where my domain was registered at the same place that hosted my site -- and the host went dark -- I never register my domain with the same company that hosts my site. I'm on WordPress.com Business now, so no thanks to your offer, WordPress.
Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations
#59It'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.
it’s already been around for 20 years, maybe unlikely but not incredibly far fetched
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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.
Say 50-60 years pass. Wordpress gets acquired by a dodgy company who decides they're OK terminating this deal because they consider the risk of litigation low.
It would be difficult to know if Wordpress (or future acquiring company) is keeping their end of the deal after one's death.