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Mini-guide: Reading between lines of registrar promotional emails

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Richard7

Member

Pentium III Enjoyer

#11

847 days is brutal but I have to ask, did anyone actually test Contabo's "archive" link they started adding last year? I clicked one in January and the page 404'd. Emailed support, got a coupon code instead of a fix. Classic.

harbourops said:
Transparency reduces support volume

Would love to believe this but your quarterly pricing history still omits the transfer-out fees that only appear in checkout. Saw it with a .io last month, $38 surprise at step four. Not exactly hidden, not exactly visible either.

SPARCstation 20, still serving HTTP
steveipw

Member OP

#12
emalite said:
847 days

That is a beautiful find, thank you for the legwork

I should add a section on emoji urgency — the ⏰⏰⏰ triple-threat seems to correlate with the longest-running "limited" windows

Has anyone checked if the timestamps in Hetzner's UTC claims actually resolve, or if they just mean "until we feel like changing it"

zfs send | zfs receive. repeat.
liam_funky

Member

Vancouver

#13

847 days is impressive even by this industry's standards

steveipw said:
Check archive.org first

Has anyone actually caught a registrar changing the offer *text* mid-run, or do they just leave the banner up forever with the same wording

I keep meaning to script a weekly scrape of a few promo pages but never get around to it

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