Namecheap To Raise .COM and .XYZ Domain Price (namecheap.com)
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Namecheap, in a blog post: At Namecheap, we've consistently stood up for our users by challenging arbitrary domain price increases. As we approach another price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains this September, we wanted to ensure our customers are informed so you can continue to get the best value for your investments. All .COM domain renewals will see an approximate 9% increase. This price increase will happen across registrars, not just Namecheap. The new prices will take effect on September 1st. .XYZ domains will also experience a price increase.
We recommend our existing domain customers renew .COM domains before September to lock in the current rates for the coming year. Prospective registrants should likewise consider registering before the price increase to lock in existing prices. Alternatively, you might consider alternatives to .COM. Depending on the top-level domain, these options could be more budget-friendly
We recommend our existing domain customers renew .COM domains before September to lock in the current rates for the coming year. Prospective registrants should likewise consider registering before the price increase to lock in existing prices. Alternatively, you might consider alternatives to .COM. Depending on the top-level domain, these options could be more budget-friendly
Email wording is a bit different. (Score:3)
We partner with many registries to bring you a wide range of top-level domains, but occasionally their prices increase, which means we need to increase our prices too.
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.
What to do next
If you want to take advantage of the current price tag, renew your .COM and renew, register, or transfer your .XYZ domains before September 1, 2023.
Note the lack of advocacy posturing. Also their renewals have always been orders of magnitude more than the drug dealer get you in the door price and NONE of their deals have EVER applied to existing customers.
Re:Email wording is a bit different. (Score:5, Informative)
I used Namecheap for a few years and they were in fact cheaper than most alternatives. Then they raised their margins and pushed entry-level prices that expire after the first year.
I switched to Cloudflare which is somewhat cheaper and has more services. But even there the .com price is increasing by 62 cents on Sept. 1, inflation in action.
Re:Email wording is a bit different. (Score:4, Interesting)
I've been gradually switching a few things over to Namecheap in the past year, but my motivation has nothing to do with their prices. Its more that they're one of the few registrars that's mostly trying to just be a registrar and doesn't constantly shove ads for their value-add services in my face to the point that I want to vomit.
I'd gladly pay more for a service that just stays in their lane and sticks to what I actually want to pay them for.
Re:Email wording is a bit different. (Score:4, Informative)
I've been using them over a decade. They're fine, but there are probably better. Granted my needs are minimal, but I do have multiple domains and have had their hosting service for that whole time as well.
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I'd gladly pay more for a service that just stays in their lane and sticks to what I actually want to pay them for.
I switched my domains from Namecheap to Porkbun some months ago both because it's cheaper for my domains and because it is a very minimalist, but reliable service. It ain't got all the fancy bells and whistles and a billion kinda-sorta-almost-related services, but that seemed like a positive thing to me, not a negative one. Might I suggest taking a squizz?
Re:Email wording is a bit different. (Score:5, Informative)
inflation in action
It's greedflation, not cost. In 2020, ICANN granted Verisign the right to increase the price as per the registry agreement: "permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period (the first six-year period commenced on Oct. 26, 2018)". How would you like to be handed a monopoly on an almost trivial service that businesses can't not buy, with an understanding that you will raise prices 7% year over year?
Slashvertisement? (Score:4, Interesting)
This just seems like a slashvertisement, with no submitter and the classic "buy now before it's too late" marketing bullshit. Is there anyone who looks at the price of registering a domain and says to themselves "wow, $10 is just too much, I better get a cheaper TLD"? I am notoriously cheap and still won't balk at current domain prices. If Namecheap is giving /. money for this story it should be disclosed, and if they aren't who the hell thought this was "news for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Re: Slashvertisement? (Score:2)
Not sure about who sent this to /. but the summary appears to be modeled after the email namecheap has sent to all of their customers this morning (myself included), which had pretty much the same wording. Buy now before it's too late...
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Shame on Verisign for the price hike (Score:5, Interesting)
Shame on ICANN for allowing it. To see how much of a rip off it is, compare .com to domains under the .de CC-TLD [tld-list.com], which is managed by a cooperative of internet industry participants in Germany.
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Shame on ICANN for allowing it. To see how much of a rip off it is, compare .com to domains under
Well as people probably know.. ICANN is a thinly-veiled front for the domain registrars and registry companies themselves, so naturally they favor higher prices overall. Historically there are at least a few community elected board members, but some time ago they made the move to eliminate even that pretention of representing the interests of the public and the internet community.
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How high would it need to go. (Score:2)
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Infinite dollars. Phishers use fraudulent methods - by the time the payment method defaults, the phishing scam is already done.
Alternatively, they may register their domain and cancel within the 5-day return window for those using the registrars that allow the full refund of an aborted registration.
Namecheap? (Score:2)
Will they update their name to adjust for cost increases?
I've been switching registrars recently... (Score:2)
I've been uses Name.com and Google Domains for years. The recent sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace incentivized me to look for alternatives. The advise I got mainly came down to Namecheap and Porkbun.
I moved some domains from Google to Namecheap and it went fairly easily except for one which was a total pain in the ass which required intervention from an online support specialist, and even then it sucked.
I moved some others to Porkbun and it was as smooth as glass. I moved the rest of my Google domains
Google Domains is gone (Score:1)
Explain to me... (Score:2)
exactly what costs went up in REGISTERING A NAME, or KEEPING IT REGISTERED, over the cost of the last ten years.
Why did you raise domain prices? (Score:2)