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I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39). Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39). Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
I use namecheap for all of my domains (all transferred off of GoDaddy). Not sure about getting .io TLD from them, but otherwise their service is really good and prices are very competitive. It also doesn't have the stupid amount of dark patterns that GoDaddy has.
We don't offer .io domains. Nor do we offer any of the TLD's that seem to be popular with some startups. Even though we could make money selling them. Like our competitors do.
Although popular (with startups) they aren't mainstream with the public. If you become successful you will just end up buying (at a much higher price) the .com equivalent. Or end up having misdirected mail and/or users or investors or bloggers or reporters etc. Whatever .com you can buy now will be much more expensive once the .com owner sees you have funding and a business model and a website.
I've been doing domains since the mid 90's. My strong advice is to stay away from anything but .com for your startup.
Despite what you may think there are plenty of .com's you can register (try leandomainsearch.com for ideas (I have no affiliation to that at all but use it from time to time).
And not all people holding domain names are vultures, cybersquatters whatever you want to call them. Some are actually fairly reasonable (I do some consulting on the side where I help people buy domain names).
[1] No we are not looking to get HN business if we were I'd have who we are in my sig.
[2] We aren't cheap.
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And Gandi isn't that cheap to begin with...
Really? Where is it cheaper to buy an IO domain? Really curious not trying to be snarky, I have some projects I'd like to put on that domain for fun but $40 or more dollars isn't worth it.
I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39). Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
Their business is low margin, high volume.
[1]http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshoote...
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Really? Where is it cheaper to buy an IO domain? Really curious not trying to be snarky, I have some projects I'd like to put on that domain for fun but $40 or more dollars isn't worth it.
moniker.com has a $13 offer for .io right now https://www.moniker.com/co-domain/
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Do they offer proper DNS services?
Yes, I think so. The reason I use Namecheap for all my domains is really because of their DNS services. For example, I have a subdomain that points to my home network router. The public-facing IP address of my home network is dynamically assigned by my upstream ISP, so it changes every couple months. I have a script that runs every day that checks if my IP address has changed, and if so, executes a cURL command to dy…
I like the .io TLD but it seems like Namecheap and others haven't really done much to make it cheaper. I can't see myself paying more than $30 a year for a single domain registration, so I've simply used other TLDs when I've had opportunities to register a domain for a project. If .io was cheaper I'd buy a couple of domains in a heartbeat, though.
The upside is that the higher price may be inhibiting squatting and thus you're more likely to find a good name available.
The high price is a result of the fact that the base cost of the domain is much higher than it is for .com/.net/.org/.info.
Here is the wholesale .io pricing which is based on volume (doesn't work that way for .com/.net/.org/.info)
So for example nic.io regular price is $60 US.
Even at the top bracket the best a registrar could do is $30 per domain.
This is compared to around $8.xx for .com that a registrar pays (we are a registrar).