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Will Netlify also offer domain names with no-markup pricing, like Cloudflare, in the near future? #46

Open gwagner57 opened 5 years ago

gwagner57 commented 5 years ago

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My question in a little more detail

Cloudflare is offering domain names with no-markup pricing. For instance, for a ".com" name I used to pay about $15 per year with my previous registrar service, which went down to $8 with Cloudflare registrar.

This is the reason why many people use a combination of Cloudflare registrar+DNS and Netlify hosting. But it seems preferable to use oly one platform, Netlify, for registrar+DNS+hosting.

Will Netlify also offer domain names with no-markup pricing, like Cloudflare, in the near future?

j-f1 commented 5 years ago

Netlify currently offers domain names, but they do have a markup: .com is $11 for the first year and $15 after that. Since Netlify isn’t a billion-dollar company (yet!) I’m guessing they need the markup to keep the lights on.

gwagner57 commented 5 years ago

I can't believe that their registrar service is really an important source for making money in their mix of service offerings. Following Cloudflare's policy would help them getting more popular.

fool commented 5 years ago

No secrets here, folks. I work for Netlify and this is the answer I'd give in the helpdesk if you asked:

  1. We resell domains from name.com and the pricing is their price + $2. We're not in it for the money :)
  2. We don't mark anything up further; their (name.com) pricing changes year 1 vs year 2 and we only report it to you in our UI.
manniL commented 5 years ago

@fool Thanks for the transparency :+1: