• NickwithaC
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    326 days ago

    .com is usually cheaper and people know it better.

    • Chozo
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      226 days ago

      Since when is .com cheaper than .info? I’ve always thought .com was generally the most expensive TLD.

      • @Plagiatus
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        276 days ago

        Lol not even close.

        It’s not the cheapest, sure, but there are a lot that are a lot more expensive, like .io or .shop

        • frozen
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          75 days ago

          It also depends on the domain name itself. I registered a domain recently, and it was much cheaper to go with .io than with .com.

          • @Plagiatus
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            45 days ago

            Interesting. No matter which domain name I check with my registrar, .io is always ~9€ per month and .com is ~2€ per month (if it’s available that is).

            Some registrars (like GoDaddy) like to basically do squatting themselves, and then offer you that domain as a “premium domain”, costing whatever they think they can press out of you for that domain. So that’s not the registering price, it’s the squatting price.

          • @Plagiatus
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            145 days ago

            It gets expensive if you want a domain name that someone already owns, that gets unreasonably expensive quickly, and I could rant for half an hour about why domain squatting (aka buying domains for regular 20-40$ per year from the registrar, only to sit on it so if someone else wants it they need to buy it from you) is shit and should be outlawed.

            • @[email protected]
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              75 days ago

              I remember having made a simple site for a small business I worked for. Told them to remember paying the annual 18$ bill for their domain name. Cue two years later and they forgot, the domain was taken by some squatters. They were asking for 1000$ annually for the domain name !

              I told them not to pay and of course the name was available a year later at the same original price of 18$ a year. They never forgot after.

            • Amon
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              25 days ago

              There’s an Emacs plugin extra-hell for that