On: Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

[petecooper]

Porkbun pricing:

.com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com

.xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz

[dchest → petecooper]

Also increasing due to Verisign:

"We expect our pricing to change from $9.73 to around $10.37 on September 1, so don't wait to lock in our low rate today!"

[dewey → petecooper]

Did they react to the announcement yet and said it'll stay that way? Otherwise that's not very useful so soon after the announcement.

[petecooper → dewey]

It was more a data point for compare & contrast, to be fair. I'm a Porkbun user but not blinkered to other registrars.

[greenSunglass → petecooper]

I use porkbun for 10 domains now for the last 5 years. They are great. Highly recommend

[lxe → petecooper]

Wow. What is porkbun and how is it so much cheaper? Is this worth transferring over?

[mikea1 → lxe]

> how is it so much cheaper

Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it:

> At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be submitted to third-party auction services.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/37-what-happens-after-a-domai...

Other registrars, like GoDaddy, do this too.

[shiftpgdn → lxe]

Domains are a loss leader product for everyone in the internet/hosting industry. Porkbun’s goal is to get you to buy secondary products.

[blairbeckwith → shiftpgdn]

This is true, but Porkbun couldn't be further from the big registrars like GoDaddy in their approach. It is actually difficult to buy a domain on GoDaddy for most people without getting sucked in to buying extras, whereas Porkbun barely even suggests extras at any point since I've been a user, and what are extras other places are offered for free.

[morkalork → shiftpgdn]

Pretty much. Everyone wants to upsell you on their hosting, page creation and blogging tools where they have ridiculous margins. How much disk space and bandwidth do you think a random small business or Jane Rando's recipe blog actually use vs. what they're being charged for? Not to mention things like "brand protection" where they'll do you a solid and buy/squat your domain on the .xxx and .sucks tlds for extra $$ each month.

[tiltowait → lxe]

I've been slowly migrating all of my domains over and have been very happy with them. Lower prices, faster website, almost ridiculously clean interface. Even has passkey support.

[ineedtosleep → lxe]

FWIW, I like their pricing and overall marketing approach and transferred my domains over a few months ago. Great experience overall.

[verst → petecooper]

For now - but surely they too will increase as part of this. What are the rates after the increase which will impact every registry?

[judge2020 → verst]

Every registrar*

Registry is like verisign owning .com

Registrar is all of the people who sell you .com domains, by having a contract with the registry.

[verst → judge2020]

Funnily I even looked up this distinction before writing because I very much know of the difference (see my comment history) but wrote exactly the wrong one. Oh well. Yes I meant registrar, not the TLD registry.

[BXlnt2EachOther → verst]

Cloudflare upcoming price changes -- yes, they like other registrars will be affected.

The announcement page might be behind a login, couldn't seem to link it directly

  .com    $9.15 -> $9.77
  .xyz    $9.33 -> $10.18
  .org    $10.11 (today's price... not affected?)
  .net    $10.10 (today's price... not affected?)

[hobs → petecooper]

Just switched to porkburn for a bunch of domains after google sold to squarespace, works great.

[bityard → petecooper]

Cloudflare pricing:

.com (9.15)

.net (9.95)

.org (10.11)

.xyz (9.33)