Hosting providers and registries should stop saying "domain price" and "buy domain". Because you don't buy domains. You rent them for a limited time. It is a subscription. Let's call it that. It's a minor issue, but I can get obsessed with correct language ;)
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@erwinrossen Ownership is however never transferred. It stays at the registry.
@jwildeboer even wrost, a lot of them show you the price for the first year, which is sometime heavily discounted, and note the actual price you'll pay for all the subsequent renewal! 💰
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Imho a market that should get regulated.
Just an example:
I searched for different domains under the .cat-TLD.
One with three chars cost some hundreds euros, another one also with three chars cost 13.000 euros a year, at the same domain hosting company (from Germany).
I mean, why??
@fasnix @jwildeboer you’re talking about the commercial TLD’s right? Why would those need to be regulated? It’s a commercial product - not a country tld.
@iworx@infosec.exchange
Just because I think such differences for one and the same digital product, is absurd!
Imho there's nothing that justifies a sum of 13.000€, as it's not any more work than for another .cat-TLD that costs just 300€.
@fasnix @iworx @jwildeboer If nothing justifies it, then just get the cheap one. 🤷🏻♂️ (If your reaction is “Yes, but …”, then apparently there *is* something that justifies the price difference.)
@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl
Ah, just checked and noticed I made a mistake with the numbers, and the TLD 🙈
The difference literally is between "dog.shop" (relatively cheap with 3.464.09€ and cat.shop (13.856,36€; both via inxw.de).
If I wanted to create a "cat"-shop, I certainly couldn't take the cheaper "dog.shop", could I? :'D
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Really? O_O
Oh, wow!
Great, that I settled fo an .eu-TLD for my shop-idea.
@fasnix I have learned over many years that TLDs are far less relevant than what the vendors want to make you think. People will always try .com or .$COUNTRY TLD when they look for a brand name. And slowly but surely .eu gains a good reputation too. But all these 2800+ new gTLDs are far less "sticky" than many marketeers believe. @ArtHarg @iworx
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
However, your domain here is a .net, also in american management.
Time to switch? ;)
@fasnix @iworx Yep. The domain itself is more or less just a line in a database. Effectively zero cost. The hard work to make a domain work is done elsewhere (DNS server, hosting, email server). It's a very neoliberal business scheme, in my personal opinion. Artificial scarcity and total freedom to dictate a price. And by creating new top level domains, unlimited new opportunities ;)
@jwildeboer It's still a (somewhat) correct term, because you first have to buy it to start using it, and then on top of that you have to rent it to keep using it.