I've found only one option that reduces the renewal cost to AUD 18 per year, but it's still quite pricey.
i received an email stating that prices will go up after September. I'm not sure if this is accurate, as my domain is due for renewal in the middle of next year. If the price increase is real, I'm considering renewing now.
Any advice?
VentraIP are fine and their support are usually good. There's just never any discounts for existing customers.
If you're registering a .com go for CloudFlare as they're cheap. I have all my non AU domains through them.
VentraIP, Just isn't the same company any more and in my opinion things have been in the decline for the last few years. There's lots of great providers out there, but it's really depending on what you're looking to purchase.
Depends, what's the extension of your domain name? and whose your registrar?
International domain extension are usually in USD, so with the poor aussie dollar atm, then prices need to be adjusted to reflect that, unless they have regular updates to reflect the changing exchange rates.
If you have an au domain name, then you can only renew the domain within 90 days of it expiring, which means you won't be able to renew it now even if you wanted to.
Given it's 1 sept price rise, most likely would be a .com - so porkbun.com it is ! :)
Although cheaper, I avoid cloudflare due to horror stories like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576353 and don't like being locked to CF's DNS
Given it's 1 sept price rise, most likely would be a .com - so porkbun.com it is ! :)
Yeah it's probably the .com price increase and for the price to be mentioned to be about AUD$18 it's definitely not the .xyz price increase. But yeah, Porkbun is the best option if you don't want to take some additional steps to save money.
I also agree on the Cloudflair sentiment as someone that's participated a lot in the Cloudflair community's it's not for everyone.
At-cost domains with privacy, SSL and Cloudflare services included: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
If use their DNS , how I can point it to my hosting (eg voiden?)
You can create A/AAAA/CNAME Records pointed at your host’s provided IPs/CNAME Targets.
Check with your hosting provider that they support this and don't force you to use their own Nameservers.
You'll need to manually delegate your DNS zone to them by adding in all the relevant records to Cloudflare to point to the servers at Vodien I wouldn't expect their support to help you given that it's a formally CrazyDomains brand now part of the internets, most notorious group of companies Newfold Digital.
Cloudflare also does not offer support and you'll be reliant on the community and as a community member, the forums rarely help people with these issues. My strong recommendation would be in less you know how to manually manager DNS zone and understand the purpose and how to use each record type. You probably avoid this solution to just save a couple of bucks.
Porkbun is on average 1 to 2 dollars more gives you freedom to change your name servers and include support.
And to add some additional transparency to your recommendation.
You're also limited to community support required to use their name servers. Do not pass on first year registry discounts. The simple fact is Cloudflare's product offering is not a registrar. It's a supplemental product to their core business.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer…
Confirm you want to use Cloudflare’s nameservers: We built our registrar specifically for customers who want to use other Cloudflare products. This means domains registered with Cloudflare can only use our nameservers. If your domain requires non-Cloudflare nameservers then we’re not the right registrar for you.
i received an email stating that prices will go up after September. I'm not sure if this is accurate, as my domain is due for renewal in the middle of next year. If the price increase is real, I'm considering renewing now.
If you want to avoid the price increases one you haven't because they've been ongoing for several years now but if you want to avoid the price increase for this year, you would need to renew before September 1, but it will increase for the for seeable future every year.
You're not really avoiding it unless you do it for multiple years but at some point you are going to be subject to the higher renewal price.
Just as an FYI this will continue to happen every September for the foreseeable future, as the US Trade Commission, and ICANN have given the .com registry operator Verisign the ability to increase prices It is a capped amount per year though.
As an additional FYI, both the .net and .org also have the same ability now .org has yet to start and .net is normally done every November. Other top-level domains, there is no provisions in the ICANN contracts regarding price it's a fair open market for them and a lot of them will be adjusting given the current financial climate their prices some did them earlier in the year, but there will be more on the way.
Like .xyz which is also doing theirs in September but that also is a fixed amount that they have set and appears to be part of their rollout strategy. But it's not contractually for them to do it via said amount, it's just their pricing strategy.
domain related - anyone with ventraip, and provide any feedback?