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That's cheap. And I thought Route53 for $12.99 was cheap already.
by res0nat0r 5y ago
That's cheap. And I thought Route53 for $12.99 was cheap already.
- jaywalk 5y ago$12.99 for a .com registration is a hilariously overpriced ripoff.
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- res0nat0r 5y agoIt's just fine when I don't have to leave the AWS console and click two buttons vs. using some other service.
- jaywalk 5y agoI understand paying extra to make your life a little easier. Doesn't change the fact that in the world of .com domain registration, it's hilariously overpriced.
- Spivak 5y agoAnd yet people pay it routinely every day which is probably why Big V’s probably not afraid of upping the wholesale rate secure that the Amazon and the like are the one’s most likely to eat their own margins to not lose customers due to a consumer facing price hike.
- jbverschoor 5y agocloudflare sells without profit
- cpach 5y agoIn that case it’s subsidized by their other offerings.
- tzs 5y agoHow can you infer that? I can see how you could infer it if they were selling them at a loss, but not from selling them without profit.
- joshuaissac 5y agoIt must still cost Cloudflare something to offer to this service.
- jaywalk 5y agoThe costs would be minimal, but it gives them another hook to try and get you into their paid services.
- jbverschoor 5y agoThere are other companies that do the same, but have a (small) subscription fee for their profit. But the prices of all domains are without any margin.
- cosmie 5y agoThat's the wholesale price. When you pay Route53 $12.99, they remit $7.85 to Verisign, who maintains the authoritative registry for the .com TLD. By jacking up the wholesale rate by 7% (the largest annual increase they're allowed, per their ICANN agreement[1]), every single .com registration and renewal becomes 7% more expensive. Requiring services like Route53 to either pass it through to consumers or eat the cost increase themselves, if they even have the margins to. [1] https://onlinedomain.com/2020/01/03/domain-name-news/icann-and-verisign-agree-to-com-price-increase/ https://onlinedomain.com/2020/01/03/domain-name-news/icann-a...