It is like any of these people have not seen any sci-fi released over the last 50 years.
Yeah. I am wary of anyone who offers registrations drastically cheaper than the cost. The usual gotcha I’ve seen is that after the first year, the renewal fees are astronomical end they charge unusually high fees for transfers. I guess ownership shenanigans can happen too.
Honestly it is one of, if not the most, valuable communities on reddit. The fact that it just exists makes me feel a sense of wonder.
This is really cool. So if I set my domain’s DNS on the registrar’s website, that DNS record is propogated to the registry? I have had this change start working in under five minutes. It’s insane how fast that is given what is actually being done.
I mean I’m not a fan of their other services but they have been pretty okay as a domain registrar. Gandi is pretty decent too :) My favourite is prokbun.
Isn’t that parking? I don’t think this would be legal in many places given there wasn’t a completely egregarious contact he missed or something similar.
https://tld-list.com/tld/com have some understanding of how this works:
As far as I know, you can’t buy a domain from ICANN directly because they don’t sell stuff? Only registrars can.
In practice there are registrars that charge you the actual price of the domain + a small registration fee (15 cents maybe) in a transparent way without any markup. An example is cloudflare.
Also in practice stay away from GoDaddy. They’re one of the most horrible companies I know. Porkbun, cloudflare, namecheap, namesilo, Google are all usually moderately priced good options. You can find details of all registrars for a tld and their prices using tld-list like: tld-list.com/tld/nameoftld.
Hope that helps :)
The last part made me lol. I really never understood how they use Bayes theorem to justify decision making in real life. Made me feel stupid for a while, but then most of the people I knew who were in the community didn’t seem like really good decision makers either.
It feels like a cult at some level. With very technical jargon that a lot of people struggle to understand.
That was an interesting read. This is a shot in the dark but was this community related to less-wrong (and HPMOR tangentially)? That’s the only other place I’ve seen where it is sort of like this.
The devs also seem really responsive. I hope they can keep it up.