Have also had good experience using namecheap for years.
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry, but chalk this up to lesson learned. It’s almost always been this way. Domain squatters will do this all the time. In fact, some domain registrars will use you searching their site for an ‘available’ domain, and if you don’t buy it up right away – will buy it and hike the price and sit on it for years in order to lock it down, knowing you wanted it.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Namecheap is alright, but Cloudflare only charges at cost with no markup.
something_random_tho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then they make you use them for DNS. May or may not be a big deal, but the reason it’s at cost is to act as a loss leader to get you exposed to and buying their other products.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their free services are extremely useful and you can’t find that anywhere else. I’ve used them for years with hundreds of domains and never paid them a single dime.
explore_broaden@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yeah this is why I don’t use cloudflare, I have my domains on porkbun.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thirded for Namecheap.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I mean, I use namecheap. I’m thinking about throwing one of my domains onto cloudfare just in case.
If you don’t like namecheap, some people have been suggesting porkbun or something.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had this happen with NameCheap. I’m not sure if they bought it or someone else, but it stayed registered with them. Whoever bought it has held it for a couple years, put up a fake website to look like they were using it, but took it down after a year when I didn’t bite on buying it. Current status shows it’s pending deletion finally for abuse or non-payment. I keep checking to see when I can nab it again.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It happens with anyone. Bots track expirations and snatch them so that they can ransom them back to you for thousands - exactly as in OPs example.
AUTO RENEW. Auto-renew. Auto-renew is the way. The solution to this problem is Auto-renew.
morriscox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So search for a lot of domains at random to cost them some money?
kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Absolutely. But I think it might be more advanced than that. They might have some sort of analytics that measures how long people stay on the page, etc to inform their purchasing decisions.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ah, so search a couple of domains and sit on their page for a while making random mouse movements and scrolls then? Got it.
morriscox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bots would help but have their own problems.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Namecheap has extra rules if you want to use an API (minimum money spent with them, minimum of domains managed with them etc.) — GoDaddy style.
Keep that in mind, if you need an API (for DDNS or for obtaining wildcard TLS certificates) you’ll have to use a separate service for DNS.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 months ago
You really should have separate services for registration, DNS and hosting. That way you’re not held hostage by a single provider.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Why should I post someone else for DNS records if namecheap is handling it just fine for my use case?
kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DDNS with Namecheap is as simple as hitting a URL with a /GET request. No limitations.
Ptsf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
+1 for namecheap. They’ve been reliable and fair to me for years.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Time to register that domain before OP gets it…
mal3oon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gohddzsx?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I prefer to be called daddy. Godaddy