If you have your own domain, you aren’t stuck with your dependencies. Swapping registrars is a straight forward porting procedure. Swapping hosting is a matter of replacing 5 or so DNS entries. It took me about 20 minutes to reconfigure my domain’s email when I decided I didn’t want to use Proton anymore.
It’s not a given. Some registars can be total dicks about transfers and drag it until expiry, after which they would kindly offer their services of “negotiating a buyout from the owner” (i.e. themselves), asking $100 upfront just for them say some absurdly high price and then hold it on park for a whole year just out of spite if you ever initiated the process.
I suppose you can’t know that, but your odds on betting on a whole industry are better than a single company. Not to mention, the barrier to entry for a registrar becoming accredited really isn’t that high, so I wouldn’t expect market consolidation unless ICANN changes the process, at which point shit is fucked regardless.
True, I’d be more concerned about legislation to be honest. The CAN-SPAM act is just the mildest example.
Also with the computer industry it’s getting pretty rare for any market niche to have more than 1-2 dominant players in it. Generally it’s winner take all. Just see what happened with all the indie ISPs.
If you have your own domain, you aren’t stuck with your dependencies. Swapping registrars is a straight forward porting procedure. Swapping hosting is a matter of replacing 5 or so DNS entries. It took me about 20 minutes to reconfigure my domain’s email when I decided I didn’t want to use Proton anymore.
It’s not a given. Some registars can be total dicks about transfers and drag it until expiry, after which they would kindly offer their services of “negotiating a buyout from the owner” (i.e. themselves), asking $100 upfront just for them say some absurdly high price and then hold it on park for a whole year just out of spite if you ever initiated the process.
And you knew 25 years ago that the market wouldn’t consolidate down to 1-2 registrars?
I suppose you can’t know that, but your odds on betting on a whole industry are better than a single company. Not to mention, the barrier to entry for a registrar becoming accredited really isn’t that high, so I wouldn’t expect market consolidation unless ICANN changes the process, at which point shit is fucked regardless.
True, I’d be more concerned about legislation to be honest. The CAN-SPAM act is just the mildest example.
Also with the computer industry it’s getting pretty rare for any market niche to have more than 1-2 dominant players in it. Generally it’s winner take all. Just see what happened with all the indie ISPs.