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iwantmyname was bought out by a conglomerate, “Team Internet[1]”, a few years ago. Prices went up, service went down. I’d recommend moving your domains when yo
by duggan 2y ago
iwantmyname was bought out by a conglomerate, “Team Internet[1]”, a few years ago.
Prices went up, service went down. I’d recommend moving your domains when you can (Porkbun have been good, though I haven’t had any incidents like this).
Best of luck!
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Internet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Internet
- donohoe 2y ago+1 for Porkbun
- internet101010 2y agoAfter so many people in this thread recommended them I decided to make the switch from hover. Their renewal rates have gotten wild.
- spondyl 2y agoOh damn, I didn't know this! I've used their services for ages and even got to briefly meet the founders once in Wellington who gave a talk on Erlang. Ah well, while it sucks that the good times may be over, I'm glad the founders got their exit :)
- kaoD 2y ago> I'm glad the founders got their exit I'm not. I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole (at least the exits that are in my areas of interest, so I assume it extrapolates to all exits). Every single business that gets bought out gets instantly enshittified in one way or another, always to the detriment of the customer. Depending on how entrenched it was it takes a different amount of time for people to move on as the new shareholders extract its economical value, but it almost always destroys societal value in the process as the company becomes a shadow of its former self (and hopefully dies, leaving way for the cycle to start again). I wish there was a way for founders to get rich without the need for an exit, so the business could keep running... but I guess ruthless enshittification is the only way to get rich? Apologies for the tangent, this is something that's been bouncing in my mind for a while...
- kiba 2y agoSell it to the employees? It won't be lucrative to selling it to someone with more cash than sense, but it may be more likely to preserve the value. There's no guarantee of course, and there's so little experience societal wide in running an employee co-op.
- robertlagrant 2y agoThere are a few employee co-ops, but I don't know how good they are. Over here in the UK we have the Co-op[0], which is a national chain of small local shops. It's a consumer co-operative rather than a workers' cooperative, though. I don't know how well it works, or what its challenges are, but it definitely exists. [0] https://www.co-operative.coop https://www.co-operative.coop
- Angostura 2y agoDon’t forget John Lewis/Waitrose and the excellent Richer Sounds: Richer Sounds boss in £3.5m staff giveaway https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48269171 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48269171
- bluehatbrit 2y agoThe Co-op (referred to in [0]) is also a bank, funeral directors, insurer, and solicitor! They're really quite successful to be honest. Nationwide is another example of a successful cooperative as well (large UK bank, particularly in the mortgage space). They're customer and employee owned I believe, my wife and I got £200 last year as a profit share for being customers. I'm a huge fan of the model, but it's difficult to get going. I think they're also more expensive to run as their operations tend to be a little more complex.
- fallingknife 2y agoEvery time that happens it just makes an opportunity for someone else to start a new competitor
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- duggan 2y agoYeah I was a fan, had every domain with them that I could! But once they were acquired their .org renewal prices just did not make sense any more, and they were missing some functionality that I thought was crucial and didn't seem inclined to add it (can't remember what it was now, maybe MFA). Domains are like car insurance – there's no reward for loyalty, so makes sense to shop around come renewal time.
- raverbashing 2y agoPro-tip: raise your prices before you need to sell your service to cover expenses
- johnnyanmac 2y agohttps://domainincite.com/24614-centralnic-to-pay-3-4-million-for-iwantmyname https://domainincite.com/24614-centralnic-to-pay-3-4-million... I appreciated the indie feel as well, but I can't blame someone for selling out to the tune of 7 figures when the opportunity arises.
- jen729w 2y agoI see you’re being downvoted on Hacker News for what appears to be an expression of support for founders selling out for millions of dollars. We have arrived at peak hypocrisy.
- foobarchu 2y agoHN is just a news aggregator. Being a participant does not mean one agrees with YCombinator's business practices, nor does it imply any other requisite opinions. So I don't see the hypocrisy
- thomasfromcdnjs 2y agoaw I've always loved iwantmyname, I haven't noticed any issues other than the price increases. Though it was the indie/personal feel they had as a registrar, I might look for alternatives.
- betteryet 2y agoSame thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.
- bambax 2y agoYes it's despicable. I'm moving my domains from Gandi one at a time and the cost is 4 times less!!
- robin_reala 2y agoIn the same way that “Don’t be evil” has disappeared, Gandi’s “No bullshit!” is no longer a thing.
- kmlx 2y agodoes anyone here use cloudflare as a registrar? i’m interested in any potential negatives.
- thomasfortes 2y agoYou're stuck with cloudflare nameservers¹, so if you want to change nameservers you need to transfer them to other registrar, how much of a deal breaker this is is up to you, to me is project dependent. 1. Section 6.1 of https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/ https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
- red-iron-pine 2y ago> 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS. there are very few parts of that contract in all caps, but that's one of them :/
- iosjunkie 2y agoThat's annoying. For some use cases, not a big deal. But I have used the AWS Route 53 'alias' functionality on a number of occasions and that requires the use of Route 53 nameservers.
- FunnyLookinHat 2y agoCame here to recommend Porkbun - I've had great experience with them and so have all of the friends and family I've recommended.
- esskay 2y agoAnother vote for porkbun here. By far one of the best registrars out there right now.