Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

• gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Namecheap is alright, but Cloudflare only charges at cost with no markup.

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  • something_random_tho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • explore_broaden@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah this is why I don’t use cloudflare, I have my domains on porkbun.

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• sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thirded for Namecheap.

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, I just didn’t realize that auto-renew doesn’t work with PayPal on NameCheap and had lazily set it up with PayPal when I got it because I didn’t want to go get my wallet. Lesson learned!

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      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you can also register 10 years in advance, or maybe more depending on the registrar, which would cover all other potential snafus like expired card info.

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