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$15.88 per .com is pretty steep, damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a nu

$15.88 per .com is pretty steep, damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal. How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.

aodin 3y ago
Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com https://porkbun.com/tld/com They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.
- bjord 3y ago
  It's worth going directly to the source of Porkbun's data, especially if you're trying to broadly compare domain prices: https://tld-list.com https://tld-list.com
barryrandall 3y ago
The upstream cost increase is 7% (the maximum allowed by Verisign's contract). Verisign is allowed to increase .com prices by up to 7% next year, and likely will.
SoftTalker 3y ago
It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. Namecheap has always been good for me in terms of service and reliability. I only own a few domains but if $15/year was unaffordable I think I'd just let them expire.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. I don't think you have a say on what others do with their money, or what could have possibly led you to believe you had. I've bought domains for my employer before. Domain name pricing was absolutely a factor in the decision-making process. Only a moron pays $20 for something they could pay $10 instead.
  - SoftTalker 3y ago
    Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds of his employer's time worrying about a $5 difference in an expense over the course of a year. At that cost differential, many other factors are more important than price.
    - rewmie 3y ago
      > Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I've expressed mine, and my opinion is that it's stupid for anyone to make wild claims on how anyone can or cannot base their decision to buy domain names based on price, and argue that they should be deprived of their right just because they are price-conscious. Do you disagree? > I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds (...) Only a moron buys domain names without assessing their availability, and this also covers variants including based on TLDs. A company does not simply buy example.com while leaving out typosquatter variants like example.org, example.xyz, example.io, example.co.uk, etc. If you had any experience in the domain, you would know that all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense.
      - Supermancho 3y ago
        > Do you disagree? Yes. No wild claims were made. Arguing over 5$ a year is silly and that's an equally valid opinion. > argue that they should be deprived of their right Another of your wholly invented strawmen. > all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense Irrelevant strawman. A squatter can take a single domain and say it costs 10k. This has nothing to do with the subject.
    - politelemon 3y ago
      I am not a business, I'm an individual with limited funds. The cost factor is pretty important here.
- kroltan 3y ago
  What if you are not a business?
qingcharles 3y ago
Steep? .com used to be $100 for two years. That was the registrar price. It's cheap now to me.

aodin 3y ago

Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com https://porkbun.com/tld/com They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.

bjord 3y ago
It's worth going directly to the source of Porkbun's data, especially if you're trying to broadly compare domain prices: https://tld-list.com https://tld-list.com

barryrandall 3y ago

The upstream cost increase is 7% (the maximum allowed by Verisign's contract). Verisign is allowed to increase .com prices by up to 7% next year, and likely will.

SoftTalker 3y ago

It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. Namecheap has always been good for me in terms of service and reliability. I only own a few domains but if $15/year was unaffordable I think I'd just let them expire.

rewmie 3y ago
> It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names. I don't think you have a say on what others do with their money, or what could have possibly led you to believe you had. I've bought domains for my employer before. Domain name pricing was absolutely a factor in the decision-making process. Only a moron pays $20 for something they could pay $10 instead.
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds of his employer's time worrying about a $5 difference in an expense over the course of a year. At that cost differential, many other factors are more important than price.
  - rewmie 3y ago
    > Everybody here can express an opinion on any topic under discussion; it's a public forum. I've expressed mine, and my opinion is that it's stupid for anyone to make wild claims on how anyone can or cannot base their decision to buy domain names based on price, and argue that they should be deprived of their right just because they are price-conscious. Do you disagree? > I might say only a moron spends 10 seconds (...) Only a moron buys domain names without assessing their availability, and this also covers variants including based on TLDs. A company does not simply buy example.com while leaving out typosquatter variants like example.org, example.xyz, example.io, example.co.uk, etc. If you had any experience in the domain, you would know that all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense.
    - Supermancho 3y ago
      > Do you disagree? Yes. No wild claims were made. Arguing over 5$ a year is silly and that's an equally valid opinion. > argue that they should be deprived of their right Another of your wholly invented strawmen. > all it takes is a domain squatter to turn your 5$/year domain into a >10k expense Irrelevant strawman. A squatter can take a single domain and say it costs 10k. This has nothing to do with the subject.
  - politelemon 3y ago
    I am not a business, I'm an individual with limited funds. The cost factor is pretty important here.
kroltan 3y ago
What if you are not a business?

qingcharles 3y ago

Steep? .com used to be $100 for two years. That was the registrar price. It's cheap now to me.