7% per year for 4 years? 31% over the last 4yrs? While I understand costs for everything has gone up, has domain management and registrar administration changed in some significant ways over the...
7% per year for 4 years? 31% over the last 4yrs?
While I understand costs for everything has gone up, has domain management and registrar administration changed in some significant ways over the last 4yrs that would increase costs this much?
I get that .com TLDs are still cheap. I have a couple .com TLDs that I are only about $32/yr total at Namecheap. They're far, far lower than the prices they used to be. I remember as a kid in the late 90s messing around on NetSol and almost registering a domain (didn't have a CC), and then them "invoicing" me for, I think, for like $125 for 1yr of a .com.
Plus, some of the newer TLDs can are like $50/yr and up. Saw that .storage is like $900/yr at GoDaddy. On Namecheap, .protection is over $2000/yr!
Regardless, seems like an excessive price increase.
Domain management is one of these things where the prices are relatively fixed and any price increase most likely only reflects an underlying investor that wants to see returns. Even if your costs...
Domain management is one of these things where the prices are relatively fixed and any price increase most likely only reflects an underlying investor that wants to see returns.
Even if your costs are 10MM per year it’ll mostly be due to salaries and fixed licenses so as a registry if you’re increasing your prices on the domain names, that’s pure margin and you’ve maid up any inflation related costs in just a few tens of thousands of domains. Everything else is pure returns. And your existing customers will not churn any faster because a domain name is a huge lock in.
The only thing that keeps this somewhat down still is the amount of tlds having increased so much that we can actually choose on price as consumers.
Just moved to porkbun based on y’all’s comments. Cut my cost in half from GoDaddy - someone else can think about it in Dec 2033 when it’s time to reup.
Just moved to porkbun based on y’all’s comments. Cut my cost in half from GoDaddy - someone else can think about it in Dec 2033 when it’s time to reup.
If I currently use namecheap, is there any reason to switch to one of the others? I don’t really like their website, but I don’t deal with it much, so I haven’t shopped around.
If I currently use namecheap, is there any reason to switch to one of the others? I don’t really like their website, but I don’t deal with it much, so I haven’t shopped around.
7% per year for 4 years? 31% over the last 4yrs?
While I understand costs for everything has gone up, has domain management and registrar administration changed in some significant ways over the last 4yrs that would increase costs this much?
I get that .com TLDs are still cheap. I have a couple .com TLDs that I are only about $32/yr total at Namecheap. They're far, far lower than the prices they used to be. I remember as a kid in the late 90s messing around on NetSol and almost registering a domain (didn't have a CC), and then them "invoicing" me for, I think, for like $125 for 1yr of a .com.
Plus, some of the newer TLDs can are like $50/yr and up. Saw that .storage is like $900/yr at GoDaddy. On Namecheap, .protection is over $2000/yr!
Regardless, seems like an excessive price increase.
Domain management is one of these things where the prices are relatively fixed and any price increase most likely only reflects an underlying investor that wants to see returns.
Even if your costs are 10MM per year it’ll mostly be due to salaries and fixed licenses so as a registry if you’re increasing your prices on the domain names, that’s pure margin and you’ve maid up any inflation related costs in just a few tens of thousands of domains. Everything else is pure returns. And your existing customers will not churn any faster because a domain name is a huge lock in.
The only thing that keeps this somewhat down still is the amount of tlds having increased so much that we can actually choose on price as consumers.
Yuck. Anyone want to recommend a registrar I can just bulk renew for the next 10/max years?
I like porkbun. https://tld-list.com/tld/com is always good to keep an eye on.
Porkbun, Namecheap, and Gandi are the ones I recommend.
Gandi was acquired a year ago and started jacking up rates. I switched to Porkbun and it's been great.
Just moved to porkbun based on y’all’s comments. Cut my cost in half from GoDaddy - someone else can think about it in Dec 2033 when it’s time to reup.
If I currently use namecheap, is there any reason to switch to one of the others? I don’t really like their website, but I don’t deal with it much, so I haven’t shopped around.