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What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
- Wronnay 4y agoThe price for .stream seem to have been adjusted. Now it costs $45.90 for 10 years on Porkbun.
- moepstar 4y agoI'm surprised no one has mentioned afraid.org so far - they're free and seem to be operating since 2001, according to their "About us" page... I've used their service in the past and as far as i recall, it worked flawlessly...
- octoberfranklin 4y agoWow, the mess with their upstream registrar two months ago sounds like such a nightmare: https://afraid.org/news/ https://afraid.org/news/ Confirms my theory: everything ICANN touches turns to poop.
- pvinis 4y agoSame. Been using it for soooo long. It's fun that the UI has been the same the whole time.
- londons_explore 4y agoI'd really like to see 'forever' domain registration. Pay your fee once, and the domain stays active forever. The cost of running the servers for a top level domain are really small, and probably going down with time, so it should be possible for the domain registrar to keep operations going with just a trickle of new registrations. As a compromise, perhaps you could charge a nominal fee for domain name ownership transfers.
- RedShift1 4y agoWhat happens when you die?
- noisy_boy 4y agoOne can start with "forever" being, say, 125 years (Wikipedia says that the longest lived person recorded was slightly over 120). So domain expiry date=current date+125-current age. When human beings routinely start living longer than that, it can be revised.
- vntok 4y agoWhat happens when you die before reaching 125 years old?
- noisy_boy 4y agoDoesn't matter; the domain is "forever". Because if you want to expire it upon death, none of these assumptions/calculations are needed - put that in the clause and done (enforcement is another thing though).
- ngcc_hk 4y agoWell like graveyard sone just want to leave a stone there forever next to the church. It is sometimes good read. And each of our existence is unique even if may not be “important” to all or any. Still … Forever is good. Especially if you know it is forever than you say thing that you want to say forever.
- edent 4y agoMost graveyards don't work like that - at least not in my part of the world. Graves are regularly re-used and stones are moved. We can't expect the dead to continue to exert pressure over the living.
- IceWreck 4y agoBut the thing is I want my stuff to stay up long after I die. Kind of like my gravestone on the internet where I can choose what to put. I dont care if it eventually gets lost amongst the huge amount of content but I still want my stuff to be out there.
- arinlen 4y ago> Pay your fee once, and the domain stays active forever. Beyond domain squatters, who would benefit from that?
- londons_explore 4y agoIt's part of the solution for a zero maintenance web presence. It means I could maybe publish my memoirs and family tree and have it still available in 500 years. It also makes web domains like other property - you don't purchase a nice watch and then expect it to be reassigned to someone else if you don't pay your annual watch renewals.
- Arainach 4y agoI do expect my property to be reassigned if I don't pay my property taxes. Eternal ownership allows those who had power and money in the past to continue to have that power indefinitely, and is very detrimental to society.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoThat should be minimized as long as a limited number of domains per person (excluding legal entities) are allowed in a limited number of tlds. Your property is both relatively scarce, limited, and requires significant service compared to random domains on some random tld.
- quintushoratius 4y agoDomains may not experience scarcity per se, but desirableness quickly falls of as the strings get more random. Everyone would love to have a three- or four-letter domain but, like land, they're not making new characters for the ASCII alphabet.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoWe could restrict those too. Any desirable length, words, numbers, etc, could just be treated like normal domains.
- geysersam 4y agoYes please, that'd be amazing. However, it would be good to have some kind of system to weed out unused domains for other uses. Otherwise I imagine we'd have lots of occupied but abandoned domain names.
- IYasha 4y agoOpenNIC
- forgotpwd16 4y agoThis reminds me, Epik markets a 'forever' domain registration. Not what you're asking though as they just renew a domain perpetually so depends on domain operator remaining active (as well as Epik itself).
- octoberfranklin 4y agoYeah, and I'd like to have a driver's license that will never expire. But neither of these things will ever happen, for approximately the same reason.
- UncleEntity 4y agoIn Arizona driver’s licenses are good until you’re 65 which effectively, if you’re a particularly bad driver and die in a horrific crash between 16 and 65, never expires.
- smileybarry 4y agoIt would have to be regulated to some degree to prevent extreme squatting, e.g.: one domain per ID would be a good start. Maybe one that isn’t a trademark too? Sort of paving the way for a name/pseudonym domain to be registered this way.
- masukomi 4y agoI believe that the owners of a custom TLD (like amazon's .pay) have to pay ICANN every year to keep that TLD alive. I believe it's over $100k annually. as such, a forever registration would have to be a quasi-pyramid scheme where the initial users keep their domains only so long as there are more new users coming in each year than existed in all the past years combined (or something similar depending on charges). also, what good is a forever domain when it doesn't also have forever hosting? You die, the domain continues on forever, your hosting provider stops hosting and now no-one else can ever use that domain. Kind-of a jerk move in the end.
- quintushoratius 4y ago> You die, the domain continues on forever, your hosting provider stops hosting and now no-one else can ever use that domain. So not that different than today. You stop paying for your domain and squatters make sure no one can ever register that domain, for a reasonable fee, ever again.
- lalopalota 4y agobut they are using it. for some definition of "using".
- ctxc 4y agoThat's...worse. Isn't "using" it to make sure it's unused till you get paid worse than it not being used right now but open to being usefully used by someone who intends to fully use it in the future?
- est31 4y ago> as such, a forever registration would have to be a quasi-pyramid scheme where the initial users keep their domains only so long as there are more new users coming in each year than existed in all the past years combined It doesn't have to be a pyramid scheme. The registrar can also invest the money, and use the interest as revenue. So instead of paying 40 USD annually you pay 1000 USD for the initial registration. 4% interest of that would be 40 USD.
- generalizations 4y agoPut it on ipfs. Long as someone cares, it'll stay up there.
- kevincox 4y agoNot really if you want mutability. IPNS "records" have a TTL so you need someone with the key actively re-publishing them. I guess in theory you could publish for a very long time but you risk issues of someone maliciously re-sharing an older record that hasn't expired. I guess once you die you can hope that someone has recorded the last version so you can "move" from IPNS to a regular CID. But IDK how much I would want to rely on that for long-term legacy especially if the TTL on your IPNS record is shirt. Although I guess IPNS records are small enough that it would be fairly easy to set up a service that recorded all published IPNS records. Maybe publish it as a merkle tree so it is infeasible to tamper with old records.
- generalizations 4y agoIf this is a 500 year old legacy, I don't think mutability is a criteria. Seems it's more a question of if anyone's going to care enough to host it.
- kevincox 4y agoI meant that you likely want mutability while you live. Then an archive once you die.
- ValentineC 4y agoI've thought about this too, and it should somewhat be possible to set up some form of long-lived association, with day-to-day management outsourced to professional service providers. The one-time cost for a domain should be substantial, with the capital put into long-term investments like index funds, which are then used to pay domain renewal (and maybe static webhosting) costs year after year. If people can set up trust funds for their families and estates, I don't see why it's not possible to do a niche "trust fund" for websites. Happy to have someone steal my idea. :)
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- larsiusprime 4y agoThat’s what unstoppable domains supposedly offers, or so I’ve heard. Vitalik Buterin wrote an interesting analysis about how to allocate scarce domains, contrasting unstoppable’s approach with recurring demand based fees: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/should-there-be-demand-based-recurring https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/should-there-be-de...
- CydeWeys 4y agoThose aren't real domain names though, as they aren't reachable from normal DNS servers. >99.9% of people cannot use these.
- larsiusprime 4y agoYeah, I’m fairly skeptical of crypto stuff myself. Do read vitalik’s article though, it has a lot of applications for domain allocation and isn’t dependent on crypto at all.
- CydeWeys 4y agoWe looked into it, but it's essentially impossible under current ICANN rules, which require that domain registrations have an integer number of years of validity of 1 to 10.
- tzs 4y agoI don't think that would work well with the existing TLDs, where domain names often have meaning other than as just a domain name, and there is often more than one person or organization that would want that specific name. Maybe make a new TLD specifically for infinitely lasting names, say .permanent, and make all top level names under that be 128 bit numbers in some text format randomly generated when you register the domain such as hex or base64. E.g., f560618f355b0ddf560456d41d635e3d.permanent or 9WBhjzVbDd9WBFbUHWNePQ==.permanent. With those names it doesn't matter that they get locked up forever with the initial registrant. > As a compromise, perhaps you could charge a nominal fee for domain name ownership transfers. When the name is generated also generate a public/private key pair and associate the public key with the name at the top level servers. Someone is considered to own the domain if they can prove that they have the corresponding private key. The top level would allow someone who has the private key to ask for a new key pair to be generated to replace the current one. Want to transfer ownership? Give the new owner the private key and they can use it to do a key change. This should allow making the top level service entirely automated and cheap to run.
- colordrops 4y agoThis is one application where blockchain tech could actually solved a real world problem. There are workable DNS systems tied to the Blockchain, which would allow for permanent unassailable domains with no central authority to take it away. Widespread adoption is of course the main issue.
- nottorp 4y ago> Pay your fee once, and the domain stays active forever. We had that for the .ro TLD. What happened was that a lot of useful domain names got acquired by random entities and sat there unused. And i don't mean "you can have this domain for $5K" unused, properly unused. They switched to a yearly fee model (about 1/5 of what the forever fee was, plus credit if you paid the forever fee in the past 5 years) and that seems to have cleaned up the space a bit.
- jameshart 4y agoForever is, as Prince once pointed out, a mighty long time. Requiring periodic renewal ensures that the entity that is responsible for the domain is still alive, and still wants it. Allowing an entity to register a domain forever creates the possibility of zombie domains, registered forever through a registrar who has long since gone bust, by a registrant who long ago lost their password... but the registry is obliged to still maintain the last state of that domain's NS records forever. Nobody would be able to initiate a transfer; nobody would be able to buy the domain off the owner... the resource would be permanently dead.
- echelon 4y agoI've thought about putting together a bid for a gTLD, but operating it like every other username-based system. Once you register, you own the domain for free forever. It's expensive: > $200,000 to apply, ~$50,000 / yr to maintain, plus $0.25 / yr per domain. [1] You could run such a system on ads, but you could also do the Let's Encrypt / completely open route where you raise money and build up an endowment to run in perpetuity. Imagine how cool Twitter would be if you had "username.twitter". Or could email "whatever@username.twitter" (or "username@twitter"). Same with gmail, etc. I've also thought about registering one in my first name and keeping it to myself. It's super nerdy and way cooler than an NFT or ".eth" domain. [1] https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing
- slekker 4y agoIsn’t this the perfect scenario for using a crowdfunded solution? If you consider “forever” to be 100 years for a person, you could charge 1k upfront, and you would need 5000 people to be able to maintain it.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>you would need 5000 people to be able to maintain it For 1yr.
- ezzaf 4y ago$1 000 * $5 000 = $5 000 000 $250 000 first year and $52 500 in following years = 91 years until the money runs out. Of course there is no doubt other costs involved, but you'd make it past a year.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoI was still sleeping it seems. Indeed 1k is reasonable price for this to reach about a century.
- californical 4y ago
- hericium 4y agoMy take: you may not want a domain unsuitable for email. Most "new" gTLDs and especially cheaper ones[1] have worse deliverability. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202646
- RedShift1 4y agoAt work we block a bunch of TLDs like .icu, .xyz, .top, .live, .work, etc... because we only got spam from them.
- navigate8310 4y agoIs there a public list of TLDs that organizations block by default? I was surprised to find out .live which I was considering to buy for my family's personal email.
- input_sh 4y agoIn my experience any ccTLD never gets blocked, including "funky" ones like .sh or .dj. My primary email ends with .online, and I also have some aliases in case .online "fails" (as in services refuse to send an email to it). I'd estimate it happens a couple of times per year.
- gtldexplosion 4y ago
- lovingCranberry 4y agoI dislike this kind of overblocking a lot. Not just TLD blocklists, but also IP blocklists. I recently had to write an email to my local police station (xx@polizei.nrw.de) and their server was rejecting it because my IP (vultr) was on the "Proofpoint® Dynamic Reputation"-blacklist. I owned this single IPv4 for at least 3 years, so they whole vultr range must have been blocked by Proofpoint. Great if you can't even contact your government because they are using some shitty blocklist product. Personally, I run a mailcow instance with Rspamd and get only very few spam mails, albeit my email was being leaked in the ledger.com hack a few years ago. When I was still using mailbox.org, I got crypto spam mails (update your wallet yada yada) in my inbox twice a day. So just a configuration thing(?).
- impalallama 4y agoAppreciate the brevity. There’s zero guff or extraneous info. Just answers the question in the title.
- jbirer 4y agoCue domain getting unregistered under BS excuses.
- ilanco 4y agoEU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire. I've registered one more than 10 years ago, set up DNS using he.net and never had any issues.
- traceroute66 4y ago> EU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire. But "eu.org" is not a TLD. If I were looking to register a domain for 10 years, the last thing I would do is put myself at the mercy of a middleman peddling subdomains.
- pxx 4y agoAll registrations are at the mercy of a middleman, especially gTLD registrations.
- hiptobecubic 4y agoOk... So two middlemen
- Ayesh 4y ago.eu.org namespace isn't crowded either. I could register my first name with it, and gleefully kept it for a few years now. I have more trust with them to run it more than those novelty gTLDs that run all sorts of games to take as much money as possible.
- capableweb 4y agoSimilarly for JS developers out there, https://js.org/ https://js.org/ has free subdomains for anything related to JavaScript
- sshine 4y agoI experienced my DNS service quitting and being unable to change my nameservers in EU.org; my email had changed, so automatic reset didn’t work, and guess how much tech support you get when you pay zero. EU.org cannot be recommended for longevity.
- HollowEyes 4y agoIn my original DNS and Bind book. When people used to look after their own nameservers, it mentions the idea of farming out subdomains in a trusted community spirit. As such ask a friend to point a subdomain your way.
- buro9 4y agoI like that. And if you were to add your domain to the public suffix list (https://publicsuffix.org/ https://publicsuffix.org/) it would effectively be treated like a domain name rather than subdomain name within browsers for JS security, etc. For example, if you look at the list: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat You'll notice that myshopify.com is on there... effectively allowing subdomains of that (customer specific, each customer does not trust other customers) is now treated like a domain so that customer1.myshopify.com and customer2.myshopify.com are both isolated from each other by apps and systems that utilise the PSL (all major browsers, etc).
- kps 4y agoWhy is this a centralized list instead of just a DNS TXT record?
- fxtentacle 4y agoBecause Shopify might prefer to NOT be on that list, to make cross-vendor analytics easier for them.
- edent 4y agoBut then you're relying on your friend to keep paying (ever increasing) costs per year to keep their domain registered.
- raytube 4y agoYou might divide that namespace greatly. The one higher up the pyramid still isn't paying 100,000 whatevera a year. In the main the vast majority of users don't give a rat's arse about the domain. But they do have trust issues. Webs of trust can ease this. And relieve you from the scam world of vanity TLDs and overpriced digital number plates.
- dizhn 4y agoIt would hurt a lot more if the domain names in the post suddenly become a lot more expensive after 10 years. I don't know if there's an upper limit to what they can charge.
- ngcc_hk 4y agoHow about .mobi the author used. You have to eat your own food. The .feedback problem is more I like to have a domain for a static site under github. I do not mind basic hosting service. But it is nicer if I just escape it to the github one. For decade … I probably would be gone or not active. Done it guys. Hence no concern.
- aurelien 4y agoThanks for eu.org you offer a free viable solution and just teach me by the way the origin of .org ... incredible eu.org !
- paradite 4y agoThough marketed as "see you" now, the origin of .cyou is apparently Chinese, changyou. "Changyou" means "freedom to explore", and it's a brand under Sohu, which is popular in China in early days of Internet. "The intention of the Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cyou”) in filing this application is to proactively protect the ownership of the “Changyou.com” and “Cyou.com” trademark at the Internet Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) name space and to provide a trusted, hierarchical and intuitive namespace for registrants and users that use Cyou’s broad range of high-quality entertainment and virtual communities services. https://icannwiki.org/.cyou https://icannwiki.org/.cyou
- Havoc 4y agoTwo more tips - go here https://porkbun.com/products/domains https://porkbun.com/products/domains Scan down the list looking for sale pricing in renewal column. Occasionally there is 2-3 dollar pa stuff there and you can buy 10 years of that Also if you meet the nationality requirements netcup does easter sales that have perpetual euro per year .de domains. .de isn't entirely clogged yet so you can get a short-ish name for dev purposes
- logifail 4y ago> A typical .uk domain will set you back the thick end of a hundred quid if you want it for a decade! Can I find something cheaper? The wholesale price for .uk domains is £3.90/year[0] so where does the £100 for ten years figure come from? [0] https://www.nominet.uk/change-to-uk-domain-wholesale-prices/ https://www.nominet.uk/change-to-uk-domain-wholesale-prices/
- edent 4y agoBecause most registrars buy wholesale and sell retail. I looked at a couple of my normal registrars and they were about a tenner per year per .uk domain. If you can find one for under a fiver (for multi year) please let me know.
- logifail 4y ago> If you can find one for under a fiver (for multi year) "At cost" (allegedly): https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
- osigurdson 4y agoOn mydomain.com, .feedback domains are nearly $400/year.
- edent 4y ago.feedback operates a two-tier system. The cheap domains have to use their web-hosting platform, which is pretty limited. If you want to use it as a real domain, you have to pay a premium price.
- osigurdson 4y agoThanks. That is good to know. By what mechanism does this arrangement come into play?
- lbriner 4y agoIf you want a .ovh domain, which is perhaps "markety" but is cheap, you can get one for £1.60 and then £3 per year. OVH are pretty big and decent and unlikely to go away any time soon. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/tld/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/tld/
- elashri 4y agoDoes it work with US accounts? It seems that no option for registrar to my US account.
- kube-system 4y agoIf you’re looking for longevity, “free” should be the last thing you’re looking for. An agreement without an exchange of value is not an enforceable contract, and so any free service can be revoked at any time, even ones that promise they are “free forever”.
- muznar 4y agoEnforceable where? How? An agreement with an exchange of value is not always enforceable either. So, although I too hope exchange of value would add more legitimacy to an agreement, it is not always the case.
- rsolva 4y agoI have registereda few .ovh domains for next to nothing. Was it one or two euro a year?
- jl6 4y agoWhat happens if the sponsor or administrator of one of these gTLDs disappears? A lot of them seem marginal and I wouldn’t be too surprised if some were not around in 10 years.
- foepys 4y agoThis isn't unprecedented, plenty of vanity TLDs were retired: https://dzdb.caida.org/tlds/graveyard https://dzdb.caida.org/tlds/graveyard
- jagger27 4y agoNone of these seem particularly tragic. It looks like they’re all brands that decided they didn’t want to renew their rights to the TLD. No biggie.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoI wish that table were sortable. Why HTML tables haven't been sortable by clicking their headers since 1.0 of the standard is beyond me.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThey won't disappear. There is a process by which ICANN will assign another registry operator to continue hosting them: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en (Note that all registries are continuously escrowing data on all domains on their TLDs on a daily basis for precisely this reason.)
- speps 4y ago> Of course, paying for hosting for a decade is a different matter! Not well known as it doesn't seem to have a translated page for it but OVH offers a free 10MB hosting with 1 email account for each domain registered with them [1]. [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/domains/free-web-hosting/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/domains/free-web-hosting/
- lonk 4y ago"10MB ought to be enough for anybody"
- superkuh 4y agoIf you plan to have an internet connection then you already have hosting. Point the domain at your home IP.
- themoonisachees 4y agoExactly what i did. The biggest price to pay (except knowledge, but this is HN) is the fact that my host uses a mains plug near my router. I personally use an old hp pc as a virtualization host but you can get started with a 40$ raspberry pi. Then again for US folk this is untenable because of data caps that could be blown by dos attacks. Personally free.fr gets me 5Gb down, 1Gb up for 50 euros a month, so maybe some getting your internet infrastructure up to date is in order first.
- lalopalota 4y agoData caps aren't really a thing in the US, at least as far as every internet provider I have ever used.
- toast0 4y agoComcast is a major cable internet supplier in the US and has data caps.
- KronisLV 4y ago
- transfire 4y agoJust sell TLDs. Why are we not surfing to `.google` and `.apple`? Most of the current TLDs are a waste. My clients all want .com addresses because that’s what “customers understand”.
- hiptobecubic 4y agoI've had people tell me my website doesn't work for them. It always turns out to be because they've appended ".com" to it.
- thiht 4y agoI worked in the domain name industry for 4 years. Be careful which TLD you rent (you never buy it). If it’s free, it’s a bad deal, just don’t take it. If it’s a ccTLD (2 characters) not of your own country, don’t take it. Eligibility rules routinely change and you could get kicked out overnight. UK residents lost eligibility to .eu with Brexit for instance. Be careful with sexy ccTLDs such as .io or .so, they belong to small countries which sometimes don’t have a proper resilient infrastructure, and you expose yourself to more DNS issues. A lot of new gTLDs (ie. tlds other than .com, .net, .org and .info) suck ass and were created by speculators. Be very careful. I would only buy a gTLD managed by Google (.app, .dev), Donuts.inc, or Radix. Most of the other crap is not reliable enough to me. If you can, just stick to .com, .net, or the ccTLD of your country.
- animesh 4y agoI went with a .net domain and am so happy to see this insight.
- thiht 4y ago.net might be a bit less sexy than .com but both are managed by Verisign, which is probably the most reliable registry nowadays. They both suffer from the same price increases for the wrong reasons, but you get the peace of mind IMO. Good choice!
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd it is one of the legacy tlds. Even if the entities managing them go down, someone will likely take over with same rules.
- y5y5y5jjjj 4y ago> buy a gTLD managed by Google (.app, .dev) "Google suspended our domain out of the blue – lyearn[.]com" -> https://twitter.com/shuchit_gandhi/status/1568829269488603139 https://twitter.com/shuchit_gandhi/status/156882926948860313...
- 19h 4y agoYou can also just use TLDList and sort by price: https://tld-list.com/ https://tld-list.com/. Never buying a domain without consulting it first.
- smileybarry 4y agoWe’re so far into internet and email being a necessary utility, that I wonder at what point you’ll get some sort of state-given (but not -controlled) FQDN/email mailbox assigned to your legal name. (EDIT: I don’t mean handing off people’s data to a private corp — instead: there would be proper access control, encryption, etc. in place to prevent spying by the state giving it, or the company hosting it) Some countries have smart card IDs with well-defined PKI & personal certificates, you could build a whole E2EE citizen mailbox with that. So: the same way you have a state-registered mailing address for official mail etc., you would have a state-registered email address, potentially @city-or-state.country-tld. Of course you could use whatever email you want but rolling it out in the same process of legal ID means changing the default “paper mail” delivery to email, without having to just manually say “yes I want to receive emails instead” to everything.
- ValentineC 4y agoOne problem I see with this is that if one's email somehow gets onto a spammer's list, there's likely no way to change their email address, since it's presumably formed from an ID number of some sort.
- smileybarry 4y agoRight, I didn't think of that, that practically seals it I guess.
- Razengan 4y agoFix those problems: Better spam protection, more stringent penalties for spammers.
- numpad0 4y agoYeah, and harassments are going to be huge problem as well. Full names displayed anywhere unless necessary, is generally a bad idea. It's not going to work - IF taken at full face value without further considerations. That said, I think might make sense as an address system for signing and verification. It'd be nice if I could just sign into a local municipality or state-level server with a national ID to read notices and do verification, instead of walking to the city hall and twice in a week and uploading drivers_license.jpg to weird e-commerce websites on random occasions.
- Lurkars 4y agoI am still surprised about the results. I am hosting on a German provider netcup.de once a year they have special offers for de-domains, on average 1,66€/year. My cheapest is for 1,44€/year (plus 2€ setup once), and price is fixed. So it's not a 10 year comittement, but auto-renewal every year, so last ten years I paid overall 16,40€ (so ~16.60 USD) for a de-TLD without any limitations.
- eqtn 4y ago.in can be registered for 10 years for $40 on dynadot
- edent 4y agoThat's useful, thanks!
- btdmaster 4y agoFreeDNS has the following subdomains: https://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/ https://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/ I do not remember how often you need to renew, but I do know that their service is not maliciously commercial like Freenom.
- xaduha 4y agohttps://www.domcomp.com https://www.domcomp.com
- amelius 4y agoI'd be more worried by the registrar stealing your domain once it becomes successful. Does that happen in practice?
- thepra 4y agoBlazor WebAssembly might be your pick, there's a starting template, write the front-end in c# and everything else in HTML and CSS as usual. It's such a breeze developing even complex webapps with it like my project collanon.app
- zxcvbn4038 4y agoI’ve worked at a couple large internet entities and both of them spend stupid amounts of money buying their domains and typeos of their domains in every tld. They also pay for the porn versions of their names just so porn producers don’t register them. On top of that they pay other entities to have a legal presence where needed to secure country tlds. They also pay for full time monitoring to ensure they don’t lose their domsins to time or changing requirements. It is hundreds of thousands a year in the end. I’m clearly in the wrong business.
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- bhartzer 4y agoNot sure about the cheapest one, but I know the most expensive one is any domain that you register at an unsecure registrar. If the domain is stolen, it will end up potentially costing you thousands to get it back. And that’s if you don’t use it for a website.
- efitz 4y ago10 year maintenance schedules are practically guaranteed to cause an outage. If you have to perform a maintenance task once every 10 years, you will not remember to do it (reminder mechanisms are not really designed and tested for such long intervals). It’s also extremely unlikely that all the business entities involved will still be in their current form. It’s possible that the new business will have lost the information reach out to you to remind you. You might have moved, changed email or phone numbers. You might have died, your family depends on the domain, and they lose their email one day because the MX record expired. The whole industry can change in just a few years; 10 year renewal seems like a bad idea to me.
- cubesnooper 4y agoI wouldn’t recommend renewing your domain every ten years, but I do always purchase my domains for ten years and subsequently renew every single year. That gives me a modicum of safety from certain life circumstances (e.g., there’s an HN commenter who lost access to his email due to a stint in prison).
- adolph 4y agoDNS is a scam and has been from the start. It’s just SEO with the gravitas of ICAN and the combined biz ethos of payday lending and rental furniture. Just market your IPv6 and self-sign your certs. Provide a hosts file for people who really want to type something in to Mosaic but don’t know how.