Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#2why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#3why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
The hostname is pretty fun sounding, seems to offer a basic profile page and email forwarding. Assuming the setup is noob friendly I wouldn’t call it a very unfair price. Yes you can do it for cheaper in gandi but seems more daunting a task.
The eTLD stuff they mention are interesting, still trying to understand what it actually means though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#4why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there.
$20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#5why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#6"Buy it for $20" omg lol no
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#7why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
The main reason is you have more protection and guaranteed continual ownership of the thing (depending on the TLD you choose, of course). Whereas if this service shut down in 12 months time ... well it wouldn't be buckling any trends by doing so.
And if they shut down and let the omg.lol lapse or sell it, someone could then redirect all the subdomains to who knows what.
Another reason might be domain trust? If spammers use omg.lol subdomains the entire thing might be blacklisted for email.
Domains are easier to resell. I don't think there will be a secondary market for omg.lol and if you sell you business based on an omg.lol it will be a red flag vs. a top level domain.
On the other hand if you intent is a personal CV / bio type page, with email (you need fastmail too) and so on, the $20 is a great deal.
But I would rather just use a xyz.netlify.com for such a project, then couple that with a free email service.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#8It took me 10s to load the homepage. How long would it take to forward an email?
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#9why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there. $20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
That's great until they get bored of running the service and you've now lost all of the aforementioned which are dependent on their domain.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#10why not register omg.motorcycles yourself for a discounted $14.99 per year?