r/DomainZone

I have a .io domain with GoDaddy, I've read all the bad posts but they've been fine for me for the past 20+ years, the usual renewal prices are cheap enough and I only use them for domains, I host elsewhere.

Anyway, I have a .io domain, which I know is pricey anyway, but they want £66 a year for the renewal, compared to my usual TLD renewals at around £10, so I'm looking for valid suggestions of companies to move it to (and maybe my others). I use this domain for private email routing more than anything else and have the privacy package, if it were a business thing then sure £66 isn't that bad.

I've found many lists online, but you know the score, there's a million names I've never heard of so don't want to go blindly into someone else.

I'm in the UK, US registrars are fine although there's usually a currency conversion rate on top that would be nice to avoid.

All suggestions welcome, TIA

Exchange.io has expired and it's currently at auction on Dynadot (current registrar)

I think this domain has a good potential. "Exchange" + .io work well together.

Was looking at domains and thought of getting one with .new extension. Could not believe my eyes when I looked at pricing. $415 per year. With that kind of pricing how will this TLD ever gain traction among people. The Registry behind is nuts.

I bought my domain through GoDaddy, and it feels like every time I log in they're trying to get me to upgrade to their email service. Is there any real advantage to buying email from your domain registrar. I mean do I need to buy their email too, or is that just an optional add-on?

I only need a business email for my small business, so I'm wondering what most people do.

The domain name Trident.ai has expired and Namecheap is running an auction for it.

It's a dictionary word but not a very common or useful one, at least not worth $30k!

The current bid is $31k and it's not over yet (5+ days left). There is a bidding war for it between Booth and another new Namecheap user.

Why do they want this domain so badly?

LFG.link has applied for well over 300 TLDs to be approved in this round. available on their website, the list includes some notable ones such as .api, .agentic, .llm .gpt and many more. they will obviously not get them all, but its a big element of a blockbuster round.

thoughts?

If the goal is low friction setup, Wix looks like the strongest pick. It feels more beginner friendly than Godaddy and more practical than Squarespace if you want the domain side to be simple.

It must be an end user who bought the domain name Plot.gg for $9,399 from Atom's marketplace. I don't think it can be resold for more than that.

The name fits the .gg extension. Plotting is a key part of gaming.

After Aiweather.com and mynotes.ai sale for 25k and 35K

Feeling hopeful for Myweather.ai

Most domain registrars keep their domain(s) at their own registrar. Atom is an accredited registrar, but why is their domain registered at Cloudflare instead of their own registrar?

Hey all.

I got myself into a domain trap. Got my domain a million years ago. Eventually hosted it with Yahoo. Fine and dandy. Right up until Yahoo spun off their web services to a third party company. Then that company turned into Turbify.

I am in need of some advice.

1. I need a new host provider that runs a stable company that doesn't change the billing amount every month and doesn't charge crazy money. I've done some searching but I need reddit consensus on this one.

2. How do I move web hosting and domain hosting from a service that has zero customer relations to another service? How hard and complex is this to do? It's been so long since I've even had to consider doing this that I really don't have the first clue.

Thanks for the help!

Firstly, I know godaddy, but I didn't do it, just had to clean it up, and the new level of their shit is nuts.

Got drug into a project that was partly off the ground, domain email purchased via godaddy before I was brought on.

Looking at it today, email is through Microsoft, but godaddy is forwarding all mail for the tenant to a godaddy address to make them available to their conversation AI chat.

This is all now apparently default action with godaddy, and took a bit of hoop jumping and support chat to remove it.

does your domain name really matter to consumers (.com, .net, .org, .store) Im trying to build a marketplace website and have been struggling to find .com domain names that fit my websites theme without blowing the bank. its been a really sttruggle, im thinking about jsut buying my websites name with a .store domain or .site. Thoughts?

Sophia.uk has sold at GoDaddy for $2,800 after another recent .uk sale also at GoDaddy: Nex.uk sold for $3,500.

You rarely see .uk or .co.uk sales on GoDaddy's aftermarket.

So for context i was delving into potentially high value domain name ideas, after about 15 minutes i came up with one that i believe has immense potential in an area that's not being focused on at all. Right before i was about to purchase, the site fully kicked me out entirely bear in mind i did not et acquired

an account. This strikes me as very abnormal.... In the current era with current technological concerns globally the domain I picked i feel could be worth a ton in the next few years with AI's rampant development. Has this happened to anyone else when you've come up with a truly good domain name that's not being used at all?

The other is I was going through many names i was thinking of consecutively. Maybe i was treated as a bot? However I know my mind works pretty quick but theres no way that i was going as fast as any bot.

WTH....

What do you think? 😊