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Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by 8organicbits »

dubcanada wrote: post #3

That kind of implies wordpress will last 100 years... Which is unlikely.

Seems likely to me. It's twenty years old and powers >40% of the internet. Old software that reaches that level of adoption for so long has great sticking power.

Edit: I suppose the parent meant WordPress.com, the commercial organization that's making this offer, not the open source software itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by Ayesh »

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, I think that price is justified.

If ICANN screws WordPress, or whatever WordPress.com uses for hosting screws them, they will be in a mess.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by xcdzvyn »

unnouinceput wrote: post #8
robjan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

All of those services maintain a clause stating they can revoke that "unlimited" service at-will. I doubt that's the case here.

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Post by goykasi »

layer8 wrote: post #10

And it’s only $380 per year: https://wordpress.com/100-year/ With inflation, that may almost end up being a fair deal. ($380 in 2023 was about $24 in 1923.)

That's insanity. I would rather bet on Cloudflare to be around longer. They don't add any additional up-charge from the baseline ICANN price. Before, I was buying 10 years of registration for a bit of a discount, but, after 20 years, I've switched over to single year with CF. What value does Wordpress bring for $380/yr? That's crazy.

Re: WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

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Post by 542458 »

layer8 wrote: post #10

And it’s only $380 per year: https://wordpress.com/100-year/ With inflation, that may almost end up being a fair deal. ($380 in 2023 was about $24 in 1923.)

I don’t think the price is particularly good. Even if we value the domain at $30 per year, that still leaves $350 per year for hosting and support.

I’d expect to be able to host a bunch of century Wordpress sites for very very cheaply, provided you locked down plugin installation (I don’t see how third party plugins could possibly work on sites expected to be that long-lived). Without plugins they’re a known security and upgrade profile, and I expect traffic on 99.95% of them to be effectively nil or highly cacheable.

Support is a bit harder to quantify, but I still would expect that most sites will just quietly chug along and support events will be rare (and again, you’re supporting a very well-known software profile).

To that end the price feels a bit outlandish to me.

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