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It's $38K for 100 years. Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust a
by Ayesh 3y ago
It's $38K for 100 years.
Because WordPress.com is the .blog registry, I guess they could pull it off for .blog domains. Other tld registries have bitten dust already, and other registries have jacked up prices in the previous years. But even at a 10% increase a year (likely the case for .com), the domain renewals will cost about $5K for 100 years. With hosting, support, and WordPress being able to run for 100 years, I think that price is justified.
If ICANN screws WordPress, or whatever WordPress.com uses for hosting screws them, they will be in a mess.
- jeremyjh 3y agoAm I the only one horrified at the thought that people will still be using Wordpress in 100 years? I can't really imagine the world in which that happens, it has to have the kind of bleakness to it that in its own way surpasses cyberpunk dystopias.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoAre you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ? Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it works damn well. Wordpress is 40% of all sites in the world.
- echelon 3y agoI'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.
- jacquesm 3y agoPrepare for disappointment.
- riffic 3y agoscrewdrivers are a very good example of the Lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- gruturo 3y agoThere Will Be Screws. (and rivets. Joints. Pipes. Flanges, if we're unlucky)
- willis936 3y agoAnd all of those things if we're lucky. If we're unlucky it will be edges of chiseled stone. If we're really unlucky it won't be anything at all.
- somenameforme 3y agoTake yourself back to 1960. Mankind has never once been to space, though there have been endless efforts to achieve such. The next year Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, Alan Shepherd follows shortly behind him. The following year the President gives a riveting speech about putting a man on the Moon. 7 years later, we land the first man on the Moon. And then do it repeatedly - to the point that dozens of men have walked on the Moon. In 1971 we put the first space station into space, with men began living in it for weeks at a time. All of that over ~1 decade. Can you even imagine where we'll be in 50 years? You're there today.
- superq 3y agoAnother day older and deeper in debt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o
- echelon 3y ago> Can you even imagine where we'll be in 50 years? If we're not careful, buying slightly faster smartphones.
- jeremyjh 3y agoYet 2023 is barely different from 2013.
- JW_00000 3y agoTo be fair, did 1970 really feel that different from 1960 for the average person? Also, between 2010 and 2020, cancer death rates declined from 173 to 144 per 100,000 population, i.e. a 17% decrease in the US [1]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-deaths/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
- gwbrooks 3y agoAccording to the World Bank, global poverty has decreased by nearly 20% during that time; the rate of decrease for those in extreme poverty has been even greater. That's something like a billion and a half people who absolutely think the world is different between 2013 and 2023.
- andrepd 3y agoWell sounds like you're gonna be disappointed.
- ssivark 3y agoAnd what kinds of tools do you think will be used to the assemble data center racks where you wish to “upload” yourself? :-P
- willis936 3y agoBrain uploads don't cheat death. Let's say you made a digital clone of your brain. Your last thought would be "oh shit I'm dying". The description of you is not the thing you inherently try to protect, but the physical brain itself. Your brain's contents change quite often compared to the medium.
- jeremyjh 3y agoThis just boils down to the dualism/physicalism argument. Physicalists would say that the mind is software and state, and they can be copied or moved just like a VM can be moved (e.g. Vmotion) from one host to another without any internally perceived interruption. The brain is just the host.
- willis936 3y agoThe real answer is likely that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. In reality there is no mystical magic that makes us special. There is no one right answer for "the best way to cheat death" because it's all about satisfying a moving target of how comfortable you are with the fact that there is nothing intrinsically special about consciousness. Saving the brain is at least a concrete thing that satisfies most interpretations of identity.
- ta1243 3y agoI agree, it seems crazy to think the human race will still be around to have blogs in 100 years time
- adastra22 3y agoIt’s crazy to think that the human race will not be around.
- pavlov 3y agoLots of people read something called the New York Times today, but it’s not printed on the same hot metal typesetting machine they used in 1923 (or printed at all). Similarly it doesn’t seem too unlikely that people would be publishing on a platform called Wordpress in 2123. If there’s anything left of the original PHP code, it will probably have been transformed and rewritten many times over by AI because we already have the capability for that, just missing some context window to process a Wordpress-sized code base.
- moralestapia 3y agoWeird argument, you're mixing things up. The NYT is a media property and a trademark, they can choose to deliver their content on any platform they want. Wordpress is one of such platforms to deliver content (like the hot metal typesetting machine). Other sites could still be around and ditch Wordpress for any other new platform that comes up. And GP would be horrified to think that 100 years from now, people would still use said platform to deliver their content.
- pavlov 3y agoThe article is about Wordpress.com selling 100-year registrations. Their platform is whatever they call “Wordpress”. In the same way, NYT on a phone app is conceptually the same NYT as the one printed in 1923, even if almost nothing in the production pipeline is the same.
- moralestapia 3y agoThe NYT can change any of the tech they use and still be the NYT in 100 years. Wordpress is the technology, if it changes, it becomes something else. That's the difference, explained.
- pavlov 3y agoWordpress.com can change their technology without becoming something else. They own the Wordpress trademark just like NYT owns theirs. Somebody who buys a 100-year registration from Wordpress will have the service delivered on whatever Wordpress has become by 2123.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoit’s already been around for 20 years, maybe unlikely but not incredibly far fetched
- microdev 3y agoIt may exists but I think it's very unlikely to maintain a significant market presence. I'm very curious how it's going to fare in the next 10 - 20 years though (I'm building a WordPress-related product and got a bit scared with ChatGPT). Maybe it's not even about WordPress but that the idea of a website as we know it now may become obsolete and most of casual web browsing will be done through an AI chat service. I think there's some chance that ecommerce websites would still exist, that the chat interface would be an inferior interface alternative and only play a supporting role.
- derefr 3y agoYou can't imagine that people will still be using something owned by a succession of companies which bought the other companies and their userbases to transfer them over to their own service while retaining the branding of the original, starting with another company buying Wordpress.com?
- pc86 3y agoThere is no scenario where $380/yr for WordPress is justified.
- Terr_ 3y agoI predict the term "blog" (web log) will become obscure and unfashionable much sooner, leaving customers with domains they don't really want anymore. Unless some company manages to trademark the term and spends money keeping it alive.