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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by dsr_ »

iancarroll wrote: post #115
dsr_ wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a database with CRUD operations and some authentication, and a report generator that runs effectively a part-of-all-rows dump every so often. The size of the database for .com is about 150 million records. At 4KB per record (generous), that's 600MB. It fits n RAM on a laptop you wouldn't consider suitable for using at the office. Number of transactions other than reports is roughly 1 per year per record plus 10%…

150,000,000 records * 4000 bytes per record = 600GB.

Ah, math. Thanks.

OK, it fits in RAM on a single modern commodity server, and is updated at a rate which can easily be handled by such a server.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by ted0 »

commoner wrote: post #117
ted0 wrote: post #38

Only upvoting this for visibility. This decision hurts the consumer/registrant in the end, making future registrations and renewal costs less accessible to a lot of markets. For clarity, this $8.39 amount will become the wholesale cost to the registrar — we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc. Registrars do the heavy lifting in de…

I migrated all of my domains away from Namecheap after their support told me that my (non-Namecheap) VPN needed to be disabled before I could log in. Namecheap now sells their own VPN service, so there is some conflict of interest in the VPN restriction. Cloudflare does not require me to turn off my third-party VPN before logging in, and sells domains at cost (at lower rates than Namecheap). For example, Cloudflare c…

It sounds like our support was trying to help you troubleshoot a login issue — to say that we “require you to disable VPN” to login so that we can push our own VPN product on you is absolutely false and actually kind of absurd if you know anything about our business.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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ted0 wrote: post #132
commoner wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I migrated all of my domains away from Namecheap after their support told me that my (non-Namecheap) VPN needed to be disabled before I could log in. Namecheap now sells their own VPN service, so there is some conflict of interest in the VPN restriction. Cloudflare does not require me to turn off my third-party VPN before logging in, and sells domains at cost (at lower rates than Namecheap). For example, Cloudflare c…

It sounds like our support was trying to help you troubleshoot a login issue — to say that we “require you to disable VPN” to login so that we can push our own VPN product on you is absolutely false and actually kind of absurd if you know anything about our business.

No, please don't twist my words. Namecheap's support rep told me that Namecheap is rejecting logins from customers using the third-party VPN, and that Namecheap has no plans to allow customers using the third-party VPN to log in. It is relevant to point out that Namecheap is refusing service to customers who use one of Namecheap's competitors. That's a conflict of interest, whether you admit to it or not.
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