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.
Let’s all just use IPs
I’ll make my own DNS, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget about the DNS!
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Inflation hitting everywhere
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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.
Just switched to them. Would recommend so far.
Well, you have to expect it due to the increased cost of (checks notes) storage and data transfer?
Is xyz really that popular? I’d expect Com and net to have increases, but not xyz.
I believe they were giving them out for $0.99/year a while back.
Why don’t people use cloudflare? .com is going from $9.15 to $9.77 .xyz is going from $9.33 to $10.18
I 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.
But they use lava lamps as a RNG! (oblig Tom Scott)
Do they have reasonable competitors? I see them used so much.
Porkbun is close in price, and from what I’ve read, has very good service without the BS typical of large registrars.
NameSilo costs a little more and offers more email forwarding addresses and API features than porkbun does.
Here’s a big list of registrars: https://tld-list.com/tld/com
Some heroes don’t wear capes.
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.
