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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (9 children)

.com is usually cheaper and people know it better.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years 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.

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