MadGee (Member) — HostPeers

The London advantage will not last. Everyone in this thread just read it. Contabo London stock is already thin. By next month the API crowd will be split across zones and the drift window will shrink

Enjoy your 2ms while it lasts

MA

MadGee 9mo ago

Drop catching .io at 4am: my week of failure and one weird win · Domain Names

Prices only go up

.io is the new /24. Watched five drops this month. Backorder services caught four. The fifth went to API at 4:07am when everyone else timed out wrong

Your $200 bought you nothing but hope

MA

MadGee 1y ago

Verisign gets another .com price hike approved—now what? · Domain Names

rudi3 said:

Compounds to roughly 40% total

This is why I prepay where I can. Not decade, not 5-year, but 2-3 year where registrar allows. The time value of money versus hike risk. I ran spreadsheet, break-even is around 18 months at these hike rates. After that prepay wins.

MA

MadGee 1y ago

Verisign gets another .com price hike approved—now what? · Domain Names

rudi3 said:

Verisign gets another .com PriceHike approved by DepartmentOfCommerce or?

Did the math on price-per-domain-year. Contabo 10-year deal: €4/mo locked. InterServer 1-year rolling: starts $2.50, now $10.34. 10-year is steal IF provider survives. No free trial on decade commitments t...