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> 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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Did you accidentally register as a business instead of an individual? I can't imagine why that happened, but I can say that my registrations have never been flagged and have always been straightforward.
My guess is his domain name contained a phrase that triggers US sanctions alarms. Things like "NICO" etc (don't put that in the reason for a bank transfer or it will get blocked)
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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.
Just try to follow along with their chat developments if you don't believe me.
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One click migration is not out of the question. Super early days for Spaceship. There’s no shuffling happening here, I’m simply letting you know about a new platform we’re excited about.
You're holding out "Spaceship" as an alternative, which absolutely DOES mean shuffling our registrations from Namecheap to Spaceship. Now you've really insulted us, so I don't give a shit if you offer migration or not. I'm gone.
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same. I've had my personal domain name for a long time. I wouldn't keep it if it cost me property tax.
I bought mine for about 100$ for 10 years which is about 10$ a year. If it went 10x times the price, then it would be $1000 that I would owe when it comes time to renew
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I bought mine for about 100$ for 10 years which is about 10$ a year. If it went 10x times the price, then it would be $1000 that I would owe when it comes time to renew
People, do personal blogs belong on .com? Typically not a commercial endeavour, unless you are consultants, and even then... They much better belong under a country tld, or at worst, .blog, .perso or .me (Montenegro, but it’s about me).
I'm ok if this leads to de-squatting. I wish there was some kind of bulk price increase. I know all the issues but if you own 1,000 domains you're just sitting on, that 1,001th you're trying to snatch should be more expensive Hoarding domains for ransom shouldn't be a business model I guess another model is you could regulate the transfer and selling of domains to a certain cap. If the most you can legally get is say…
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it's kind of an internet georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
The problem here is that it's really artificial scarcity. The true value of the names is negligible because there are plenty of good names that aren't actually in use, but they are registered. It's like selling access to sunlight. There is more than enough to go around until some jackass puts a massive wall in the sky and wants to charge money to remove it.
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> company.com is going to object that they would lose the domain they've had for 99 years or be subject to an extortionate price increase Then do a perpetual lease, or 999 year lease, or pay every year, or [...] How would you enforce a prohibition of leases? Plus, the tricky bit here is there are lots of reasons for a domain owned by entity A to be used by entity B (companies might be related, might just be allowing…
> I don't think it's defeatism at all, by my estimation it will do very little or nothing at all, while creating a hassle for everyone. I guess I could be wrong about that, but that's what I'd expect. We have a longstanding counterexample: Trademarks. You can't register a trademark without using it and you can't sell it. And the latter is practically in name only -- you can sell the "goodwill" associated with the tra…
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I appreciate the ideals. I'm entertaining the idea that there's a non-asshole way to do domain brokering that's more like a store and less like a hostage negotiation. Maybe that's not possible.
What is the point of domain brokering? A company shows up to squat on a domain nobody was using and then extort a premium when someone comes along who actually wants to use it. It's pure useless rent seeking. They add no value to anything, they merely tax the public in exchange for nothing.