I guess this is a cautionary tale.

I was recently having issues with my Gmail account that’s tied to my Epik ( a domain registrar ) account, so when I was supposed to renew my domain, I didn’t receive any e-mails about it. When I decided to randomly check on my website, it seemed to be down. So I checked Epik and a domain that usually cost £15 a year to renew now cost £400 to renew as it was expired.

As a teenager who does not have £400 to spend on a domain, I decided to just wait until the domain fully expired and buy it for a cheaper price.

After some time, the domain fully expired and GoDaddy decided to buy it as soon as it did, and charged me £2,225 to renew the domain. I don’t understand how a price that large is justified, considering that my website gets barely any visitors and I basically only use the domain for hosting stuff. No idea how hiking prices this much is legal

  • femtech@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    I’m glad I don’t care about the domain name. Just something easy to remember but I can always change it and tell the fam.

    • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      It’s important if you’re building a brand, or if you’re dumb like me and run your own email server

      • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Luckily for me I don’t need many email addresses and zoho will do something like 5 for free on your domain. Do you dislike running the email server? I don’t mind all the normal day-to-day upkeep of things, but is email some special kind of hell or something?

        • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I like running my email server, because I justify it with my use cases.

          If you like to spend time conversing with support about why your IP is on a blacklist, or why your email is being sent to spam (or outright rejected - I’m looking at you Microsoft), and then trying to increase your domain and IP reputations, be my guest.

          Otherwise, a service is generally best

          • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Did you ever get Microsoft to do anything other than tell you to register for the SNDS service, and then have them still silently drop your email regardless of whatever they claimed was going on?

            I found that extra fun.

            • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Nope. I’m not sure if I should be happy that I’m not the only one.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      If I ever changed my email domains I’d have to go change a lot of online accounts.