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I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39). Is it normal for a company branded as the low
by dlss 13y ago
I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).
Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
- lignuist 13y ago> Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods? At least I would not be surprised if that would be the case... like those red and white "SALE" stickers that some shops have at their windows during the whole year, while being actually more expensive than other shops.
- arkitaip 13y agoAnd Gandi isn't that cheap to begin with...
- FireBringer 13y agoReally? Where is it cheaper to buy an IO domain? Really curious not trying to be snarky, I have some projects I'd like to put on that domain for fun but $40 or more dollars isn't worth it.
- arkitaip 13y agomoniker.com has a $13 offer for .io right now https://www.moniker.com/co-domain/ https://www.moniker.com/co-domain/
- acron0 13y agoThat link is for .co, not .io domains...
- arkitaip 13y agoApologies, my mistake. Also, when talking about Gandi's pricing I was speaking generally, i.e. they are more expensive than average domain registrars. I've, however, bought domains from them myself and their support and admin are great, so I would totally recommend them.
- pbreit 13y agoNamecheap is appreciably less expensive than Gandi for nearly all other TLDs. For example, .COM: $10.69 vs $15.50.
- mbesto 13y agoI use namecheap for all of my domains (all transferred off of GoDaddy). Not sure about getting .io TLD from them, but otherwise their service is really good and prices are very competitive. It also doesn't have the stupid amount of dark patterns that GoDaddy has.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoAnd 100% fewer girls in swimsuits, elephant hunters, and SOPA supporters.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agonamecheap is my preferred vendor and is generally cheap, as the name suggests. Their interface is great and their customer service tends to be pretty good. They're miles ahead of other popular registrars like godaddy and netsol. I have no idea what io is or why the people at ICANN or wherever are allowing all these new subdomains. Its clearly a cash grab by all involved and the registrars are feeling out the market value of yet another vanity domain. I'm sure it'll settle into a more crowd-friendly price. Not sure what the point is. Just more domains businesses need to worry about. I'm sure Disney doesn't want some random jackass to own Disney.io.
- peckrob 13y ago.io is the CCTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoAbusing foreign domains for vanity purposes is still the ugly greed I'm complaining about. Especially the geniuses who would buy domains attached to anti-enlightenment, anti-liberal cultures that can pull your product/site for any caveman reason.
- dubfan 13y agoWhile I agree there are some bad examples of TLD abuse, the British Indian Ocean Territory is not so much a country as a military outpost. The native inhabitants were forcibly removed decades ago, and in the very unlikely event they were ever repatriated I think it's unlikely they would stick with the name "British Indian Ocean Territory". The TLD .io would essentially go unused if foreign registration weren't allowed.
- miloshadzic 13y agoWhatever the name, they provide a good service. I have an .io domain with Gandi but if Namecheap was offering io domains while i was shopping for it I would have went with them.
- shiftpgdn 13y agoNamecheap is just an eNom reseller[1]. They simply use the eNom API to handle all domain management and registration. Their prices are dictated by the prices given to them by eNom. Their business is low margin, high volume. [1]http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshooter.aspx/13/136/ http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshoote...
- Killswitch 13y agoNamecheap is an accredited domain registrar, they started out as an eNom reseller and still maintains that account.
- shiftpgdn 13y agoThey still register all of their domains through eNom.
- iancarroll 13y agoIf you could find a citation for that, I think we'd be happy. You don't become a registered ICANN registrar if you're reselling from eNom.
- dangrossman 13y agoMaybe that's the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn't have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight "deviant uses of the internet" to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi's service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it were registered through them. http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pdf http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pd...
- jjblue 13y agoYou've posted this msg at least twice in the thread (at least one was deleted). Seems you're using the thread in a way that doesn't help HN as much as yourself. Can you post some examples of this policy being used unfairly? Surely some real-world, verifiable examples would help your case. (And what if the examples are nonexistent... what then?)
- dangrossman 13y agoDomain registration is a commodity service, where all but one company selling this commodity does so without any strange contract terms. Even if the chance that Gandi acts on their contractual rights is slim, there's no reason to give them that right in the first place. A company's brand, good will and years of backlinks are tied to their domain -- it's not something to put at risk lightly. I deleted the copy of my comment, not a moderator, as it didn't need to be said twice. This does not "help me" in any way; I'm not affiliated with any registrar. The reasons one would point out an unusual contract term are pretty obvious -- most people don't read them, and this one's quite material to the decision of who to register a domain with.
- jjblue 13y agoSo no examples, then? Sounds like FUD to me.
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- swalsh 13y agoAfter the SOPA escapades, they became my primary registrar away from GoDaddy. So far i'm actually pretty happy with their service.
- Killswitch 13y agoI've been an exclusive Namecheap user since RegisterFly screwed me out of thousands of dollars worth of domains back in 2004 with their whole fraud thing... Have been very happy customer of theirs. Great company, plus they are Anti-SOPA, having been very helpful to GoDaddy users looking to leave them when that drama went down.
- jlgaddis 13y agoThey've made multiple (not insignificant) donations to the EFF as well.
- clarkm 13y agoI think it's just the name. In many ways they don't act like a typical low cost provider. For example, they accept bitcoin.
- pbreit 13y agoKind of a dumb comment considering that Namecheap is appreciably less expensive than Gandi for nearly every other TLD.