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"Cheap domains" is not a thing. $25/year domain for a personal website is kinda pricey. But scam/spam operator can pay that and more pretty darn easy.

worldofmatthew 4y ago
Who is charging $25/year for domains?
- dark-star 4y ago
  $25/year for an .it domain is pretty cheap actually, usually they sell for more like 40€ per year
  - thiht 4y ago
    .it are around 10 bucks a year. No idea where you would find them at 25 or 40 a year.
- smcl 4y ago
  Depends on the TLD, I searched gandi with a very random set of characters the keyboard (to ensure I could probably get many results) and here's a selection of country-level ones which are above $25/yr: - abcedasdfff.io = €59.29/year - abcedasdfff.tw = €25.20/year - abcedasdfff.nz = €25.40/year - abcedasdfff.mx = €48.28/year Most of them appear to be €10-20/yr, but it's certainly not uncommon to see them go for €25 or higher. Note: EUR and USD are roughly at parity so I don't think it's really necessary to do a conversion.
  - worldofmatthew 4y ago
    Most common TLDs are not in that price range.
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schroeding 4y ago
There is at least one registrar that gives away .it domains (and apparently .eu domains? WTF?) for free for one year[1], with no major strings attached (as long as you cancel after the first year) as far as I read, correct me if I'm wrong. Why they decided to ".xyz the TLD", I don't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://www.register.it/?lang=en https://www.register.it/?lang=en
- fortran77 4y ago
  I'm not sure about today, but about 12 years ago, I was able to get 1000 .info domains for about $200. (We were doing some machine-generated splog creation to see if we could game Google search results. We could.)
  - moneywoes 4y ago
    Did you make them link to each other? any insights would be appreciated

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"Cheap domains" is not a thing. $25/year domain for a personal website is kinda pricey. But scam/spam operator can pay that and more pretty darn easy.

by nousermane 4y ago

worldofmatthew 4y ago
Who is charging $25/year for domains?
- dark-star 4y ago
  $25/year for an .it domain is pretty cheap actually, usually they sell for more like 40€ per year
  - thiht 4y ago
    .it are around 10 bucks a year. No idea where you would find them at 25 or 40 a year.
- smcl 4y ago
  Depends on the TLD, I searched gandi with a very random set of characters the keyboard (to ensure I could probably get many results) and here's a selection of country-level ones which are above $25/yr: - abcedasdfff.io = €59.29/year - abcedasdfff.tw = €25.20/year - abcedasdfff.nz = €25.40/year - abcedasdfff.mx = €48.28/year Most of them appear to be €10-20/yr, but it's certainly not uncommon to see them go for €25 or higher. Note: EUR and USD are roughly at parity so I don't think it's really necessary to do a conversion.
  - worldofmatthew 4y ago
    Most common TLDs are not in that price range.
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schroeding 4y ago
There is at least one registrar that gives away .it domains (and apparently .eu domains? WTF?) for free for one year[1], with no major strings attached (as long as you cancel after the first year) as far as I read, correct me if I'm wrong. Why they decided to ".xyz the TLD", I don't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://www.register.it/?lang=en https://www.register.it/?lang=en
- fortran77 4y ago
  I'm not sure about today, but about 12 years ago, I was able to get 1000 .info domains for about $200. (We were doing some machine-generated splog creation to see if we could game Google search results. We could.)
  - moneywoes 4y ago
    Did you make them link to each other? any insights would be appreciated