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 (that's the legal definition of buying something). 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.)
@jwildeboer @fasnix @iworx That is good strategy. It is the proper strategy against market excesses: just don’t buy stuff that’s too expensive. Market prices will come down.
I’m not sure any TLD is outside US reach though. IIRC then they can mess with DNSSEC signing of the top level domains. You’d be able to set up your own authoritative DNS for .eu, .de, .nl, but no client would trust it. Details escape me for now.
@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.