gandi.net offers a better deal at 29€ for an .io domain.
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Namecheap now offer .io domains
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Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#42I switched to Namecheap several years ago and have never looked back. They are one of the only registrars to offer two-factor authentication.
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#43I'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?
Maybe that's the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn't have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight "deviant uses of the internet" to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi's service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it were registered through them.
http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pd...
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#44I love the IO ccTLD, but it's just too expensive to justify on a free side project that doesn't make any money. First-world problem, eh?
Not coincidentally, that's also why so few .io domains are parked. Overall, I'm OK with this.
It's definitely a trade-off. For me, I just ended up doing -io.com :)
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#45I'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?
After the SOPA escapades, they became my primary registrar away from GoDaddy. So far i'm actually pretty happy with their service.
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#46I love the IO ccTLD, but it's just too expensive to justify on a free side project that doesn't make any money. First-world problem, eh?
If the more expensive price tag means a less flikr's and alot more flickers than its worth the money to me.
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#47I'm using http://iwantmyname.com for http://gitignore.io and they have been great. They update their DNS records very quickly and I haven't had any problems with their service and right now they are $49.
Me too. Very happy with them after I switched off GoDaddy.
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#48I'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?
Namecheap is just an eNom reseller[1]. They simply use the eNom API to handle all domain management and registration. Their prices are dictated by the prices given to them by eNom. Their business is low margin, high volume. [1] http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshoote...
Namecheap is an accredited domain registrar, they started out as an eNom reseller and still maintains that account.
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#49For what it's worth, I've been using namecheap for over 2 or 3 years now, with around 10 domains registered with them, and I have to say that their service is quite good. The support is capable and promptly responsive. Very rarely, if ever, have I experienced technical difficulties. Even if it's not the cheapest in the market, the service is worth the extra $
Do they offer proper DNS services?
I moved all of my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. I host my own DNS. Recently, I decided to take a stab at implementing DNSSEC, but one condition is that your registrar must support it[1], and Namecheap doesn't[2]. I'm in no rush, but it's a little disappointing. I have no idea if DNSSEC is an option when Namecheap hosts your DNS. They've also only recently added support for IPv6 glue records. Nonetheless, I'm happy to be rid of GoDaddy and find the Namecheap interface to be much simpler and easier to use (concise email notifications of logins and account changes are also nice, and readable in more email clients than the noisy upselling HTML garbage that GoDaddy spews out).
[1] http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dnssec-re...
Re: Namecheap now offer .io domains
#50I'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 been an exclusive Namecheap user since RegisterFly screwed me out of thousands of dollars worth of domains back in 2004 with their whole fraud thing... Have been very happy customer of theirs. Great company, plus they are Anti-SOPA, having been very helpful to GoDaddy users looking to leave them when that drama went down.