Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

>>spiral+(OP)
The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

>>bpye+r1
I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar.

- Namecheap

- Cloudflare

- Route 53 (if on AWS)

Any others?

>>paxys+E1
Route 53 is outrageously expensive for domains, one should only use it, if they need AWS’s DNS product.

>>teitok+b4
For .com as of Aug 2024, Verisign says they charge $10.26 wholesale, and ICAANN charges $0.18/domain for a total of $10.46/yr wholesale.

Route53's .com is $14/yr. So the three year price is $42.

Three year prices from a few registrars (there's so many pricing games the "per year" price is nonsense in most cases):

    Cloudflare: $31.32 (-0.06)
    GoDaddy: $46.93 (+15.55)
    Namecheap: $41.24 (+9.86)
    Namesilo: $51.87 (+20.49)
    Porkbun: $29.61 (-1.77)
    Route53: $42 (+10.46)
    Spaceship: $28.98 (-2.40)

All diffs given against the $31.38/3yr wholesale price from Verisign+ICAAN.

Not sure how that qualifies as "outrageously expensive".

You can make your own trade-offs, but for something that's literally the foundation of my online identity, business, etc I'm willing to pay $3.50/yr over wholesale for a company with a reputation, support, and generally aligned incentives.

You may choose to instead tie your online identity and business to someone charging less than cost to save half the price of a big mac a year. But I will find it hard to dig up much sympathy when we all find out _how_ they're planning to make money doing that.

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