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One click migration is not out of the question. Super early days for Spaceship. There’s no shuffling happening here, I’m simply letting you know about a new platform we’re excited about.

It’s an entirely new brand and platform that’s been in the works for a while.

How would you call this ripping you off? Seems like quite the stretch here. Namecheap is a business — we can choose to take a markup on registrations, which by nature is transparent given that wholesale prices are public.

Spaceship has been in the works for years and it’s something we’re excited about, hence why I’m letting you know about it.

Well fair but I welcome you to at least check it out! It’s an entirely new codebase and platform.

We are committed to having competitive pricing at Spaceship for the long term. If you’re concerned, you can also lock in current pricing with multi-year registration.

Fwiw, you could say the same about anyone else in the market. Wholesale pricing is controlled by the registry, retail pricing can be updated by the registrar at any time.

What are you talking about specifically? Namecheap has always been vocal and active with advocating for issues like net neutrality and SOPA.

Ted from Namecheap here. We have launched a new beta registrar, Spaceship.com, which has wholesale pricing on most extensions. A reminder that wholesale pricing is set by each TLD’s registry, not us.

Would love your feedback on this early version of Spaceship.

Congratulations on the launch. What is a good email to reach you at?

Google does not own .web. They were in the running to acquire it but it will ultimately go to Verisign (who runs .com) after a ~5 year legal dispute.

Will pass on the request.

Still in limbo but looks like Verisign will be able to launch it at some point: http://domainincite.com/27180-verisign-boss-talks-web-launch...

Passing all of your helpful feedback to our Domains PM. Thank you. As I mentioned in another comment, we're developing a new dashboard experience among other things, which we're really excited about.

coupon code "BYEBYEGD" works for .com transfers ha

Support is core to our business and always our main focus but so is UX. We are admittedly a bit behind in improving our dashboard but can promise you that we have already started developing a radically updated experience and will be ready in the nearish future.

Thank YOU!

Thank you! Bummer re the premium cost on the name that expired.

Not familiar with any .sh price increase but it's certainly possible..

If you can swing it, you can add years to your registration(s) now to lock in the current price before any sort of increase.

We would love to and we are always striving to get as close to wholesale as possible but we do have operating costs — domains are essentially our core business and we have 1,000+ CS agents + a large risk/abuse team that works around the clock to focus on the customer experience. Anyone who is selling domains with no markup at all is taking a loss in some form and/or treating it as a loss leader for other products.

Music to our ears.

Woot!

So happy to hear that!

Check out our tiered pricing. If you qualify, support can set you up! https://www.namecheap.com/domains/tier-pricing/

Btw, would you mind sharing what registrar you worked for? No worries if not but it's a small industry!

No plans for that. We have never even taken any investment and luckily have been growing substantially over the last few years as a bootstrapped company.

Sorry to hear you had trouble with our interface. We do have some pretty substantial updates planned for 2022 and would love to have you back. Feel free to shoot any feedback to ted [at] namecheap.com.

I'm sure they do indeed have special pricing for bulk customers. Although, not sure how much has changed with them since they were acquired by private equity a couple of years ago.

I do admit that our API needs some love - fortunately we have a lot of major backend updates in the works and a new API will follow at some point. Unrelated but we did roll out a new API (entirely separate from the API you're referring to) for our Auctions platform: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/12017783/TW6wKUfy. Curious to get your feedback if you're interested in taking it for a spin!

Thanks for choosing us!

The .io infrastructure under ICB was indeed quite slow. Everything moved to Afilias (and now Donuts) many years ago though and EPP is quite performant now fortunately.

We deal with a few independent ccTLDs these days that are still horribly unreliable though. Not going to name any names but some of these are quite popular and still either don't run on EPP and/or run on an old outdated server in a local DC.

Ted from Namecheap here. Donuts, who now operates the .io TLD, is only increasing the wholesale price by ~10%. We are still obviously not happy about this since it's always our goal to ensure that domain pricing is as accessible as possible to our customers.

It would appear that Gandi has just chosen to substantially increase their markup as part of this Donuts update. Our pricing will likely only increase a small amount, if at all.

You are still welcome to email me and I will try to help you however I can.