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Route 53 is outrageously expensive for domains, one should only use it, if they need AWS’s DNS product.
by teitoklien 2y ago
Route 53 is outrageously expensive for domains, one should only use it, if they need AWS’s DNS product.
- pfoof 2y agoYou can use any registrar with R53, so it's more like: if you really need to have domain registration written in Terraform and the other registrar doesn't provide it
- nucleardog 2y agoFor .com as of Aug 2024, Verisign says they charge $10.26 wholesale, and ICAANN charges $0.18/domain for a total of $10.46/yr wholesale. Route53's .com is $14/yr. So the three year price is $42. Three year prices from a few registrars (there's so many pricing games the "per year" price is nonsense in most cases): Cloudflare: $31.32 (-0.06) GoDaddy: $46.93 (+15.55) Namecheap: $41.24 (+9.86) Namesilo: $51.87 (+20.49) Porkbun: $29.61 (-1.77) Route53: $42 (+10.46) Spaceship: $28.98 (-2.40) All diffs given against the $31.38/3yr wholesale price from Verisign+ICAAN. Not sure how that qualifies as "outrageously expensive". You can make your own trade-offs, but for something that's literally the foundation of my online identity, business, etc I'm willing to pay $3.50/yr over wholesale for a company with a reputation, support, and generally aligned incentives. You may choose to instead tie your online identity and business to someone charging less than cost to save half the price of a big mac a year. But I will find it hard to dig up much sympathy when we all find out _how_ they're planning to make money doing that.