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Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable. Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So the

Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable. Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So they plan to just sell to Google, Amazon or Microsoft in the future, and we don't yet know which one of those it's going to be? Even if they had a small margin, does that mean that there's poor quality support, despite domains being mission-critical to businesses?

Tokumei-no-hito 3y ago
Probably not google. They just sold google domains off
- jfoster 3y ago
  You're making me nostalgic for the first time they retired one of their chat offerings...
jbc1 3y ago
Selling headline products at or near break even and then making your margin on add ons is a fairly standard pricing strategy. Doesn't mean they plan to sell any time soon. I do agree that having something so mission critical be managed by someone making practically nothing off of you is concerning, but I dont think that changes all that much at double their price. Either way the second something goes wrong, you leaving as a customer is much cheaper for them than it is for someone to spend any amount of time fixing your problem. Unless you're markmonitor big then as far as I can tell the best bet is to just go off of general sentiment about domain providers. Or maybe have it through a cloud company if you're spending enough on other things to warrant proper tech support?
- jfoster 3y ago
  Those are great points. Agree with everything, except does Porkbun actually make a decent margin on any of their offerings? They all seem quite cheap, but it's possible that some of the hosting could be shared out to a ridiculous degree, so it might be a bit difficult to say for sure.
Jka9rhnDJos 3y ago
Google just sold it’s registrar business to Squarespace, so, maybe not.
- jfoster 3y ago
  One arm of Google has no idea what the other arm of Google is doing. Watch them re-enter domain registration within the next 5 years. Just try to follow along with their chat developments if you don't believe me.

Tokumei-no-hito 3y ago

Probably not google. They just sold google domains off

jfoster 3y ago
You're making me nostalgic for the first time they retired one of their chat offerings...

jbc1 3y ago

Selling headline products at or near break even and then making your margin on add ons is a fairly standard pricing strategy. Doesn't mean they plan to sell any time soon. I do agree that having something so mission critical be managed by someone making practically nothing off of you is concerning, but I dont think that changes all that much at double their price. Either way the second something goes wrong, you leaving as a customer is much cheaper for them than it is for someone to spend any amount of time fixing your problem. Unless you're markmonitor big then as far as I can tell the best bet is to just go off of general sentiment about domain providers. Or maybe have it through a cloud company if you're spending enough on other things to warrant proper tech support?

jfoster 3y ago
Those are great points. Agree with everything, except does Porkbun actually make a decent margin on any of their offerings? They all seem quite cheap, but it's possible that some of the hosting could be shared out to a ridiculous degree, so it might be a bit difficult to say for sure.

Jka9rhnDJos 3y ago

Google just sold it’s registrar business to Squarespace, so, maybe not.

jfoster 3y ago
One arm of Google has no idea what the other arm of Google is doing. Watch them re-enter domain registration within the next 5 years. Just try to follow along with their chat developments if you don't believe me.