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My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by selectnull »

Oh man... this is not the first time they're doing it. I've been their user and they have deprecated the plan I've signed up for. After a call with the CEO, we have come to an agreement of a custom plan that allowed my to keep one of the features I really needed (vanity name servers) at the time. That was in 2015. In 2017 I had another call with them at after that I decided to move away.

I was a happy customer for years, but felt they were not good on past promises about the pricing. Moved to GCP and slashed my monthly bill to a 1/5 of what I was paying to DNSimple. Still with GCP today (for DNS).

Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by nathas »

mcnichol wrote: post #5

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Have you looked at FolioHD? It's geared towards photographers and artistic types that want a really nice portfolio website.

Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.

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Post by grujicd »

mcnichol wrote: post #5

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Why is this rent seeking? It seems like a reasonable service for their target audience, an easy way to create online portfolio. Reselling domains to be used with a portfolio is just an additional service which makes perfect sense in this case.

Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by sebastian_z »

badlibrarian wrote: post #8
velcrovan wrote: post #6

I've been with DNSimple for years (personal and business accounts) and am watching closely to see whether I need to think about moving off in the next year or so. I've also started to feel like something is off … price hikes with no added benefits have me wondering if it would really be so bad to manage DNS for ≈ 30 domains at Hover or something.

Cloudflare handles domain registration at no price markup, the UX is solid once you figure out the slightly quirky process, and transfers have gone smoothly.

Porkbun [1] is also good (I have no affiliation with them; just a happy customer).

[1] https://porkbun.com/.

Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by mcnichol »

grujicd wrote: post #14
mcnichol wrote: post #5

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Why is this rent seeking? It seems like a reasonable service for their target audience, an easy way to create online portfolio. Reselling domains to be used with a portfolio is just an additional service which makes perfect sense in this case.

Imagine having 900 houses and renting them out to a community of like minded folks.

Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow.

While it isn't rented, they are squatting on it.

Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by johnklos »

jabiko wrote: post #4

I'm wondering what prevented the author from having the sales call and seeing what rates they are willing to offer. Best case they might even be better than the current rates.

If someone says your prices will go up by a factor of five, there's very little if no chance you'll negotiate to anywhere close to the current price.

Also, when someone is barely satisfied with the current offerings, something like this would be the impetus needed to do something new.

Re: My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

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Post by mcnichol »

nathas wrote: post #13
mcnichol wrote: post #5

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Have you looked at FolioHD? It's geared towards photographers and artistic types that want a really nice portfolio website. Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.

If you want to be an artist then control of your intellectual property is probably a topic you care a great deal about.

Your domain and how people reach you is probably the first lever. If you are giving that up happily, I assume renting without the option to own or leasing a car is a sensible business model to you and you are just experimenting without any real intention of starting.

The effort and time in becoming an artist outweighs by at least two or three orders of magnitude the time it would take to read an article and setup a domain. Namecheap, GoDaddy, all these registrar's do it for you.

Imagine having 900 houses and renting them out to a community of like minded folks. Whether it is at cost or slightly above, it is "rent seeking" in the sense they own, you borrow.

While it isn't rented, they are squatting on it.

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