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Namecheap ups its prices 9% for .com and .xyz this fall. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Having just jumped from Google to Nameheap this is more than mildly frustrating.

edit: apparently this is the result of Verisign putting up their wholesale prices

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cloudflare is also upping prices. Since Cloudflare sells domains at cost, I expect domain prices have simply increased.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aside from the obvious fighting and bidding over an already claimed single domain name, what factors into the inherent pricing of a domain?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The domain registry (basically owner of the domain ending) sets the price.

Edit: Though it should be mentioned there's a power above them (ICANN) that has to approve the price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wholesalers squeezing buyers because they can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried to check the pricing of domains at cloudflare and they just don't have a list. You need to transfer a domain to see the price. So I will probably stay with inwx for the time being.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s accessible here, but I believe you have to log in to view it: https://dash.cloudflare.com/d7138cf214ac65bec690a57a66bb66ec/domains/pricing

Edit: Here is a screenshot of the page https://imgur.com/a/wL0bEde