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There's a ton of gTLDs too, I just grabbed a cheap one and ACME-fied all my lan services

by hackcasual 2y ago

titanomachy 2y ago
Are there any that actually stay cheap, though? Any time I've bought one they've cranked the price after a year.
- deathanatos 2y ago
  … .net? (<$15/y for the registration.)
- throawayonthe 2y ago
  [dead]
- piperswe 2y ago
  The following TLDs are $3.98/yr (not an initial discount, that's just the price) with Cloudflare Registrar according to https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17lpxa6/cloudflare_domain_registrar_pricing_table/ https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17lpxa6/cloudflare_...: - .bid - .download - .date - .loan - .men - .party - .stream - .trade - .win You could probably get away with using a few of these for a home network, though some would be kinda strange (.men? .loan?)
  - Cyphase 2y ago
    LOcal Area Network? Low Orbit Area Network?
    - dspillett 2y ago
      For a small network; a router, a single server hosting stuff, an AP, and whatever wireless clients: Low On Actual Network.
  - page_fault 2y ago
    It's a lottery with these novelty TLDs. If you use them, setup your configuration such that you can move to another TLD easily. .nets and .coms increase in price too, but they don't tend to jump by 100% in a single year like these novelty ones, which were created purely to make money for the registry. e.g. https://tld-list.com/blog/tld-wholesale-price-increase-2023 https://tld-list.com/blog/tld-wholesale-price-increase-2023 TLD Old New Percent Date .reviews $17.00 $40.00 135.29% 2023-10-04 .furniture $38.00 $80.00 110.53% 2023-10-04 .faith $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .racing $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .review $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .science $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04
  - davchana 2y ago
    Numerical 6 to 9 digit .xyz domains are 0.99 cents a year, $10 for 10 years.
- DavideNL 2y ago
  …or alternatively simply buy a domain for 5 or 10 years.
  - Tepix 2y ago
    Not all TLDs will let you do that.
  - venusenvy47 2y ago
    That's what I did with a couple .uk domains from Cloudflare. I bought ten years at $4.30 per year so I don't have to worry about renewal price increases for a long time. I also liked that it was suck a short TLD and not from some sketchy country.
- justsomehnguy 2y ago
  > they've cranked the price after a year. Define 'cranked'. I spend way more in a bar in one night than on my domains yearly, so I always find 'oh I need one super-duper cheap, below $2/y otherwise it's way too much' comments a bit.. too frugal.
  - titanomachy 2y ago
    It’s more the principle of the thing… if I buy a domain for $3 and it’s $30 next year, I’m just going to switch my stuff over to .com or .net where the price is predictable.
  - FinnKuhn 2y ago
    I also spend more in a bar in one night than on charging my phone for whole year. If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though.
    - justsomehnguy 2y ago
      > If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though. Sure anyone would be, but... maybe don't choose .furniture[0] as the TLD for your own small private LAN DNS and don't have the unpleasant surprises? The prices for the registrations (and renew) are going up steadily (just like everything else? inflation is a thing), but there is always an option to get the information about the renewal price upfront and maybe even use the multi-year sale. Just looked in Dynadot's CSV, there are ~100 TLDs with sub $10 renewals and additional ~100 with < $15. Also dug my records[1], privacy is baked in now, so the total effective rise is $1 for `.one` and... -$2 for `.com`. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805 [1] date created: 2015/08/20 <placeholder>.com - domain renewal 1 year ($10.99) <placeholder>.com - domain privacy 1 year ($3.00) PAYMENT final cost: $13.99 date created: 2016/07/21 <placeholder>.one - domain renewal 1 year ($10.99) <placeholder>.one - domain privacy 1 year ($3.00) PAYMENT final cost: $13.99 Date created: 2023/09/08 <placeholder>.com - Domain Renewal 1 year ($11.99) $11.99 Date created: 2023/10/16 <placeholder>.one - Domain Renewal 1 year ($14.99) $14.99
jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I did this for a while back when freenom existed. Then, I moved and learned that I was exceptionally lucky to have working loopback NAT in my previous house, and would have to split off a local.<domain> entry for clients on the internal network. No idea why most ISPs don't have routers that work like that. I haven't bothered doing DNS auth to get certs since I started using paid domains.
boopdewoop 2y ago
You.BEAUTY - https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

There's a ton of gTLDs too, I just grabbed a cheap one and ACME-fied all my lan services

titanomachy 2y ago

Are there any that actually stay cheap, though? Any time I've bought one they've cranked the price after a year.

deathanatos 2y ago
… .net? (<$15/y for the registration.)
throawayonthe 2y ago
[dead]
piperswe 2y ago
The following TLDs are $3.98/yr (not an initial discount, that's just the price) with Cloudflare Registrar according to https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17lpxa6/cloudflare_domain_registrar_pricing_table/ https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17lpxa6/cloudflare_...: - .bid - .download - .date - .loan - .men - .party - .stream - .trade - .win You could probably get away with using a few of these for a home network, though some would be kinda strange (.men? .loan?)
- Cyphase 2y ago
  LOcal Area Network? Low Orbit Area Network?
  - dspillett 2y ago
    For a small network; a router, a single server hosting stuff, an AP, and whatever wireless clients: Low On Actual Network.
- page_fault 2y ago
  It's a lottery with these novelty TLDs. If you use them, setup your configuration such that you can move to another TLD easily. .nets and .coms increase in price too, but they don't tend to jump by 100% in a single year like these novelty ones, which were created purely to make money for the registry. e.g. https://tld-list.com/blog/tld-wholesale-price-increase-2023 https://tld-list.com/blog/tld-wholesale-price-increase-2023 TLD Old New Percent Date .reviews $17.00 $40.00 135.29% 2023-10-04 .furniture $38.00 $80.00 110.53% 2023-10-04 .faith $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .racing $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .review $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04 .science $4.98 $9.98 100.40% 2023-09-04
- davchana 2y ago
  Numerical 6 to 9 digit .xyz domains are 0.99 cents a year, $10 for 10 years.
DavideNL 2y ago
…or alternatively simply buy a domain for 5 or 10 years.
- Tepix 2y ago
  Not all TLDs will let you do that.
- venusenvy47 2y ago
  That's what I did with a couple .uk domains from Cloudflare. I bought ten years at $4.30 per year so I don't have to worry about renewal price increases for a long time. I also liked that it was suck a short TLD and not from some sketchy country.
justsomehnguy 2y ago
> they've cranked the price after a year. Define 'cranked'. I spend way more in a bar in one night than on my domains yearly, so I always find 'oh I need one super-duper cheap, below $2/y otherwise it's way too much' comments a bit.. too frugal.
- titanomachy 2y ago
  It’s more the principle of the thing… if I buy a domain for $3 and it’s $30 next year, I’m just going to switch my stuff over to .com or .net where the price is predictable.
- FinnKuhn 2y ago
  I also spend more in a bar in one night than on charging my phone for whole year. If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though.
  - justsomehnguy 2y ago
    > If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though. Sure anyone would be, but... maybe don't choose .furniture[0] as the TLD for your own small private LAN DNS and don't have the unpleasant surprises? The prices for the registrations (and renew) are going up steadily (just like everything else? inflation is a thing), but there is always an option to get the information about the renewal price upfront and maybe even use the multi-year sale. Just looked in Dynadot's CSV, there are ~100 TLDs with sub $10 renewals and additional ~100 with < $15. Also dug my records[1], privacy is baked in now, so the total effective rise is $1 for `.one` and... -$2 for `.com`. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805 [1] date created: 2015/08/20 <placeholder>.com - domain renewal 1 year ($10.99) <placeholder>.com - domain privacy 1 year ($3.00) PAYMENT final cost: $13.99 date created: 2016/07/21 <placeholder>.one - domain renewal 1 year ($10.99) <placeholder>.one - domain privacy 1 year ($3.00) PAYMENT final cost: $13.99 Date created: 2023/09/08 <placeholder>.com - Domain Renewal 1 year ($11.99) $11.99 Date created: 2023/10/16 <placeholder>.one - Domain Renewal 1 year ($14.99) $14.99

jimbobthrowawy 2y ago

I did this for a while back when freenom existed. Then, I moved and learned that I was exceptionally lucky to have working loopback NAT in my previous house, and would have to split off a local.<domain> entry for clients on the internal network. No idea why most ISPs don't have routers that work like that. I haven't bothered doing DNS auth to get certs since I started using paid domains.

boopdewoop 2y ago

You.BEAUTY - https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt