I feel personally attacked
Yeah man, I came here to laugh and not get all defensive! :(
Is it this time of the year again?
My dream’s only dead if I don’t renew.
This hits way too close to home.
It's not even a hard pick tho. Will turn on auto payment in a heart beat if it's an option.
Is it not an option usually?
Most times it defaults to that state and you have to actively turn it off with extra steps.
Jokes on you guys. I only use mine for self-hosting crap nobody except me wanted in the first place.
I have one purely for a spam email address that I rarely check. I just needed to get off of big brother Google's platforms and I wanted something easy to say and type.
pay $12 cause you're terrified that you'll decide to do something later but you're so scared someone else will take it
What dream? A domain's quite practical for self-hosting one's own server for all sorts of things. Doesn't have to be the "next big thing". This is the way the internet used to be.
Perhaps your dream of self hosting is dead
Right? A little script auto to update your DNS records assuming you don't have a static IP, now you can remote in much easier. And don't have to memorize your IP.
Most routers have dynamic dns updaters built in nowadays.
And you don’t even have to write the script yourself. Depending on your DNS provider, you can probably use https://github.com/qdm12/ddns-updater or something similar to keep it updated.
I personally use it hosted in Docker with Cloudflare on their free plan and it works great. I tried to set it up with Namecheap initially but they have some requirements for API access, some of which include an allowlisted IP address for API clients. I didn’t want to source, configure, and rely on a static IP jump server just for DNS updates, so I changed the DNS provider (but didn’t transfer the domains).
I've been meaning to get one to use as a fixed email, even if I change the underlying email provider. Not able to select a domain name though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ naming is always the hardest part
All I see is: Pay $12 or Pay $12
Lolllll. Happened like two days ago.
12 dollars? Just buy a .site doman from namecheep for $2 instead. You are guarantied to afford 6 times the normal level of hopes and dreams that way (/s for the second half, but this is what I do for my site)
If you miss a payment the renewal is expensive
Hense why its a good idea to enable auto renewal or set a reminder
$12?!?! When was this meme made?
Same thing with servers, but its monthly
- Reverse engineer local service.
- Code MITM-like software/proxy server.
- Order domain and dns record.
- Get friends & relatives.
Up to 10 simultaneus users now are using my software. Would be hard to change domain now.. 😅 Luckily I purchased it for 5 years for 25€.
So true for me, https://foro.buceoluegoexisto.com It's really sad. :(
Oof
Ah. This just reminded me that one of mine was about to expire. Thanks!
Yeah, my domain expired, and can't renew it because the site I got it from is fucked up...
