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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by callalex »

codeulike wrote: post #32
readams wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They marketed it at the time as being "unlimited", which at the time was a reasonably fair description

Can you point to any archived material with that claim? Many of us have been around to remember everything from that time period, and they never made such a claim in my memory. When Gmail launched there was a very prominent bar graph at the bottom of every page that told you how much storage you were using and how much was available.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by 93po »

Waterluvian wrote: post #46

It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it. 100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout. It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.

It is virtually guaranteed no one will use domain names or web browsers or blogs or websites in 100 years.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by millzlane »

93po wrote: post #122
Waterluvian wrote: post #46

It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it. 100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout. It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.

It is virtually guaranteed no one will use domain names or web browsers or blogs or websites in 100 years.

What would they use?

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by millzlane »

moralestapia wrote: post #78
pavlov wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of people read something called the New York Times today, but it’s not printed on the same hot metal typesetting machine they used in 1923 (or printed at all). Similarly it doesn’t seem too unlikely that people would be publishing on a platform called Wordpress in 2123. If there’s anything left of the original PHP code, it will probably have been transformed and rewritten many times over by AI because we already…

Weird argument, you're mixing things up. The NYT is a media property and a trademark, they can choose to deliver their content on any platform they want. Wordpress is one of such platforms to deliver content (like the hot metal typesetting machine). Other sites could still be around and ditch Wordpress for any other new platform that comes up. And GP would be horrified to think that 100 years from now, people would s…

Why wouldn't WP just adapt to whatever new thing comes up? For instance, is there mastadon plug-ins for wordpress?

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by rakenodiax »

joekrill wrote: post #118
anonzzzies wrote: post #72

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Almost all ‘lifetime subs’ are scams; a company has to be massive to support it and if it doesn’t work out for smaller companies, the consequences don’t matter anyway.

It doesn't actually have to be lifetime to be well worth it, though. For services with recurring fees there's obviously a break-even point that's simple to calculate. And often you can expect that recurring fee will increase at some point, so that break-even point will often come sooner than expected. I bought an Emby Premier subscription 8 years ago for $120. You can also pay yearly at $55 dollars. So even if it's n…

What seems to happen is the company will offer a "new" product that differs enough to justify demanding a whole new subscription

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by marc_io »

millzlane wrote: post #123
93po wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is virtually guaranteed no one will use domain names or web browsers or blogs or websites in 100 years.

What would they use?

It will likely exist as a niche thing, but it will be abstracted into an easy-to-use service, much like social media is today.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by hoofhearted »

withinboredom wrote: post #103
hoofhearted wrote: post #86

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It’s not about being a static website. It’s about using the latest cutting edge technology to build the best possible web application for uses. “Best” as in; Perfect SEO, Simple theming, Fastest loading possible, Secure, Simple and affordable hosting, and so on. WordPress is very dated, and they are very comfortable in their niche. The reason they maintain the market share that they do is because there just isn’t a b…

> Fastest loading possible, Secure, Simple and affordable hosting, and so on. You know that WordPress is actually fast, right? A vanilla install on a crappy $2 a month server will return a response in a few ms. The problem with WordPress are the plugins and the lack of vetting/rules/oversight. And when they do apply their rules, they apply them in ridiculous ways -- for example, I submitted a plugin that was a wrappe…

The MVP that we launched a few months ago already was more optimized and faster than the website hosted at Wordpress.com

The MVP also is cheaper to host compared to the hosting solution you suggested.

https://www.elegantframework.com/blog/2023-04-05-elegant-fra...

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by nightski »

marc_io wrote: post #126
millzlane wrote: post #123

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What would they use?

It will likely exist as a niche thing, but it will be abstracted into an easy-to-use service, much like social media is today.

Those easy to use services use domains and web browsers lol.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by derefr »

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.

You can't imagine that people will still be using something owned by a succession of companies which bought the other companies and their userbases to transfer them over to their own service while retaining the branding of the original, starting with another company buying Wordpress.com?

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by derefr »

moralestapia wrote: post #88
pavlov wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article is about Wordpress.com selling 100-year registrations. Their platform is whatever they call “Wordpress”. In the same way, NYT on a phone app is conceptually the same NYT as the one printed in 1923, even if almost nothing in the production pipeline is the same.

The NYT can change any of the tech they use and still be the NYT in 100 years. Wordpress is the technology, if it changes, it becomes something else. That's the difference, explained.

Wordpress-the-company owns the name "Wordpress." They can sell that trademark, and then whoever they sell it to can call something else "Wordpress", and the current technology would have to get a different name.
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