Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases
Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases
On Sept. 1, .COM and .XYZ domain prices will increase. Learn why this is happening and what you can do to lock in current pricing.
On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.
TLDs are a scam.
34Let's all just use IPs
35I’ll make my own DNS, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget about the DNS!
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How so?
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Inflation hitting everywhere
24Someone’s gotta harvest those bits, they deserve to get fair pay for putting in the hard work.
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I keep hearing that Porkbun has great service and prices. I think I'll give them a try next time I have to renew.
13Just switched to them. Would recommend so far.
3Definitely planning to move my domains over when they're due for renewal.
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Well, you have to expect it due to the increased cost of (checks notes) storage and data transfer?
13Is xyz really that popular? I'd expect Com and net to have increases, but not xyz.
10I believe they were giving them out for $0.99/year a while back.
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Why don’t people use cloudflare? .com is going from $9.15 to $9.77 .xyz is going from $9.33 to $10.18
6You're locked into using their DNS servers. Some people are okay with that, but I don't like arbitrary restrictions on my domains nor how much control Cloudflare have over the internet. Cloudflare's domains are a loss leader - they sell them at wholesale price and make $0 profit - with the idea that you'll get hooked on their other services and become a paying customer. Trying to ensure you use their services is the main goal, which is why they lock you into their DNS.
I prefer Porkbun - they're a bit more expensive (still cheaper than Namecheap though) but you have full control over the domain.
In general, you never want to have both your domain and your hosting or CDN with the same company, as they can hold your domain hostage if there's any ever concerns with the site.
20I don't use Cloudflare because it has so many hooks into so many places that it's a one-stop shop for tracking people's internet use, which I dislike.
14But they use lava lamps as a RNG! (oblig Tom Scott)
5Some heroes don't wear capes.
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Obviously it doesn't apply to .com or .xyz, but in addition to the concerns about being locked in to Cloud flare's name servers, they don't support some gTLDs right now.
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