The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
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Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#2Why would someone want this? If I need a database of devices in DNS I can just buy one domain and create subdomains for each device myself. It'll cost way less than $0.99/device/year.
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#3"recommended retail price of $0.99"
Am I getting cynical? Seems like no businesses are going to use this recommended price.
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#4Why would someone want this? If I need a database of devices in DNS I can just buy one domain and create subdomains for each device myself. It'll cost way less than $0.99/device/year.
In developing countries at least it seems like it could be a really big deal. When a daily wage is $5 USD, making a domain $0.99 is much more friendly and encouraging, the difference of two days wages vs. a fifth of a day
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#5"recommended retail price of $0.99" Am I getting cynical? Seems like no businesses are going to use this recommended price.
As a teenager making $5.50 and later a whopping $5.75/hr working in retail, I never bought a domain or hosting, as they were outside of my budget. At the time (late 90s) domains were $14.95 on sale, and regularly $19.95.
It wasn't until college that I had enough available resources to buy a domain, and at the time I went ahead and bought 5 years. I probably missed out on 3 or 4 years of my life when I had virtually unlimited time to work on things like programming. Had $1 domains existed in 1997, I'd probably have ended up as a PHP/Perl guy, and gone on an entirely different life route.
Nowadays I have six or seven domains, two for public facing stuff, and the rest are for a rotating cast of personal projects where subdomains don't make a lot of sense. But my life wasn't always like this where I can afford multiple vanity domains. For big chunks of the world, $10/year is a significant startup cost when AWS and GCP have free tiers.
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#6I bought an xyz for a throwaway project a couple of years from NameCheap. They renewed it at 10/year, although I could swear it didn’t say “first year only” (I’m used to the special first year pricing scams from GoDaddy and 1and1, and I passed on a similar first year special for other gTLDs from NC so I really don’t think that was the case.)
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#7A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#8A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.
It's barely readable on desktop...
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#9"recommended retail price of $0.99" Am I getting cynical? Seems like no businesses are going to use this recommended price.
domain registrars are a pretty competitive business, so I'm pretty confident that at least a few would offer it at that price.
Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
#10Why would someone want this? If I need a database of devices in DNS I can just buy one domain and create subdomains for each device myself. It'll cost way less than $0.99/device/year.
In developing countries at least it seems like it could be a really big deal. When a daily wage is $5 USD, making a domain $0.99 is much more friendly and encouraging, the difference of two days wages vs. a fifth of a day
There are loads of free DNS services that hand out subdomains at no cost.