does anyone know anything about domain name pricing? on hover the domain i want is listed for $30/yr; on namecheap it's $2.88/yr. as far as i know, both services provide WHOIS privacy for free. so, is there any significant difference in what i'd get from one vs the other?
@typhlosion but i mean like its still cheaper so
@typhlosion oh, so it is. double checked on my profile and it says free forever
@typhlosion it’s a cartel and if you don’t need their extra services it doesn’t matter
@typhlosion maybe check the price on gandi.net
I dont know about price, but it could be good place to own your domain.
I can tell you that you'll get a free ssl certificate with it, provided you do a bit of leg work (I can help with that).
It also comes with 5 emails for free.
@typhlosion Not really! It depends, sometimes they offer additional services for that cost, like free email. Be careful though, that namecheap price MIGHT be the first year price only, make sure to check that it's not a sale price.
@ceralor it is almost certainly a first-year-only promo price, BUT it's still cheaper than hover and gandi
@typhlosion For the renewals as well? Not bad then; they offer basic DNS services (standard A/AAAA/TXT/CNAME/MX/etc records) as part of that at least, so if that's all you need, or you'll be using nameservers elsewhere, they're a solid choice.
@typhlosion @ceralor moving domain out of namecheap cost money too.
They charge for changing the tag (might not be the case for the domain you want)
@kyzh @typhlosion Changing the tag?
@kyzh Ah looks like it only applies to uk-related TLDs, that explains why I had not heard of this yet, derp.
@ceralor all good (sorry ive been too lazy to explain directly)
@typhlosion namecheap charges more to renew domains. that's about it.
@typhlosion im not sure the whois protection is free with namecheap. i had to pay like twelve bux for it on top of my domain name