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Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee $5.43 Namecheap's markup Namec
by agwa 3y ago
Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:
$0.18 ICANN fee
$8.97 Verisign's current registry fee
$5.43 Namecheap's markup
Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:
$0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
$9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase)
$6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase)
So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also increasing their markup.
Edit: fixed error in Namecheap's markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!
- inspector-g 3y agoHere to point out (friendly) a typo - their markup is 13% higher now
- smnrchrds 3y ago$5.43 -> $6.11 is 12.5% increase, not 1.13%.
- echelon 3y agoNamecheap should use some of this new revenue to fix their UI. Owning more than 10 domains on Namecheap is a burden. Trying to manage more than 50 is an outright headache [1]. I'm nearly to the point where I'm going to transfer all of my domains just to escape the poor management console. I've been giving them this same complaint for awhile [2]. I'm no fan of Godaddy [3], but they really did a good job with bulk management and organization. Any recommendations for alternative registrars on the dimensions of price, security, TLD support, DNS, and bulk operation / organization features? [1] I'm not a squatter. I own typos and alternative TLDs of my primary product domains, and I operate lots of websites for various side projects. [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406698 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470260
- mort96 3y agoI literally moved away from Namecheap when they did a UI redesign many years ago. Their old control panel was ugly but functional. Their new one looked much more "modern", but was way less information dense, and they introduced jank and made stuff take more clicks and hid stuff behind collapsed-by-default menus iirc. They also made their billing details UI no longer accept the letter "ø". The billing details UI which made clear the importance of making sure the name you enter matches the name on the card. And the name on my card happens to contain an "ø". That doesn't exactly instil confidence.
- usr1106 3y agoInteresting, your passport cannot contain an ø (in the machine readable part). What is the allowed character set for names on a credit card?
- qingcharles 3y agoThat's interesting. I'd never thought of it before. I just tried to find images, but can't find any example credit cards with non "Roman" lettering, just like passports. It sucks because the transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations.
- costco 3y agoYou probably already know this but there's no way for them to verify name on card. They can only verify address with AVS.
- PascalW 3y agoHave you considered managing DNS records with Terraform or Pulumi? That way you can easily automate (bulk) changes. Edit: this is possible with Namecheap as well, see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/namecheap/namecheap/latest/docs https://registry.terraform.io/providers/namecheap/namecheap/....
- jrockway 3y ago"Bring your own UI" is the ideal user experience.
- skinner927 3y agoThis must be a Godaddy ad or you’ve completely missed the multitude of posts where Godaddy has royally screwed over their own customer.
- echelon 3y agoDid you read my linked post? I've had to acquire some domain names via Godaddy recently, and I do like their management console. I really dislike the company, though. They screwed me out of one of my domains when I was just a teenager.
- listenallyall 3y ago.com is the most desirable TLD by far and also one of the least expensive. .io, .me, .shop, .info, .site are all more, often significantly more. Like everyone else I would love less expensive .com prices but honestly Verisign could 10x the cost of .com and only lose a mild percentage of registrations.
- gabereiser 3y agoIt’s also the most exhausted. The min char available now is in the 7 range. Prefixes and/or suffixes and even hyphens are being used to find land. It’s brutal.
- 3abiton 3y agoReminds me of that south park episode.
- eastbound 3y agoHence, a x100 price hike on .com would ensure that low-cost domain parking is squeezed out. It’s not linear. A domain at $2000, which costs the squatter $14 a year, would certainly go down by 75% if it costed the squatter $200 a year. Because the prospect of keeping it for 10 years goes from $140 to $2000, so the seller would make more benefit selling at $500 today than $2500 in 10 years. A squatter who’s squatting 1000 domain would go from $14k a year to $1m.
- danjoredd 3y agoIt would also make a lot of legitimate .com owners have to give up their domains. IDK that I would be able to pay that much for the domain I own for my personal blog
- gabereiser 3y agosame. I've had my personal domain name for a long time. I wouldn't keep it if it cost me property tax.
- tiffanyh 3y ago$9.73 renewals at Porkbun. https://porkbun.com/tld/com https://porkbun.com/tld/com
- agwa 3y agoThat's presumably going to increase on September 1 or else they'll be taking a $0.04 loss every time they sell a .com.
- ceejayoz 3y agoWhich they might be willing to do, if the average domain generates enough upsell revenue with other services.
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- brewdad 3y agoThere is definitely an increase coming for Porkbun but it is still a tiny amount. I just moved four domains from Namecheap to Porkbun.
- KomoD 3y agoYes, it's rising to $10.37.
- fullstackchris 3y agoWow! Porkbun! I nearly forgot about that place! Shamelessly been using Namecheap for a while now... their UI is a bit old school but they have some of the best prices around (at least did)
- crazygringo 3y agoIs that just tracking inflation though? What was the date of their last markup increase, and what has inflation been since then? Presumably their employees need to be paid more to keep with inflation and all.
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- agwa 3y agoIf their costs have gone up due to inflation they should be honest about that. Their blog post implicitly blames Verisign for the price increase, which is not the whole truth.
- hnarn 3y agoEver since I found out that Cloudflare does not charge any markup on the domains you buy from them, I've decided to buy all my domains from them. They are very transparent with their pricing, and also has a notice about this increase; in their case it will go up from $9.15 to $9.77 -- which seems to check out with the sum of the registry fee plus the ICANN fee.
- hk1337 3y agoIs it just domain registration? Do you have to use Cloudflare for DNS if you register a domain with them or can you set the DNS somewhere else?
- agwa 3y agoYes, you have to use their DNS, which is tightly integrated with their CDN in ways that are fine for some people but others may find undesirable (e.g. they automatically obtain SSL certificates for your domains).
- CameronNemo 3y agoYou can use their DNS without the CDN.
- hnarn 3y agoIt’s possible you have to use their DNS servers (I haven’t checked) but I know for a fact that the rest is not mandatory, because I don’t do any of it.
- Meekro 3y agoIt's true that you have to use their DNS, but that's it. You don't have to use their CDN (it's easy to turn off) and you don't have to use their SSL certs.
- HWR_14 3y agoI've heard people suggest you should split registrar and dns solution, but I don't really understand why that would be best practice.
- jimmaswell 3y agoSo it went up by less than $2.. per year.. and it's still less than $20.. per year. How are people talking about switching providers over this.
- geetee 3y agothe principle of the matter
- jimmaswell 3y agoIt could double and I wouldn't be inconvenienced enough to care, different story if you have many domains though. I'm fine with NameCheap getting a little more profit for the good work they do.
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- Faaak 3y agohttps://www.infomaniak.com https://www.infomaniak.com is currently selling .com's at 8.88€ (9.7 $). Not much margin