Luigi Mangione, who is charged with first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, made the comments on a website set up by his defense.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Huh, TIL!
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.
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.
There’s an
Emacs pluginextra-hell for thatTLD*
😝