True enough.
However, if you were a trusting soul, you would hope
that whoever inherits the domains a registrar
registered would honor whatever agreements the
original registrar had made (probably mandated by law
anyway). Obviously, the only utility that exists in
prepayment of any sort (since there is no price break
here) is convenience (and not having to remember to
pay your bill for the next x number of years).
In any case, doing just about anything on the Internet
is a matter of trust. No matter who you register
with, there is no guarantee that they won't take away
your domain next week anyway (see
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01285.html).
Regarding cost, domains next year could also be more
expensive. For example, what if the kind souls who
run the root servers suddenly decide they need to
recoup the cost of hardware/bandwidth related to their
service, and charge a surcharge $2.00/year per server
for all new registrations. Suddenly your $12 domain
costs $32.
All in all it comes down to who you can trust.
And as an aside, i would agree that registering a
domain for 10 years is a bit silly anyway. That is
equal to a century in Internet time, so who knows if
you would even care about that domain 5 years from
now...
-r0
--- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Radix Zero wrote:
>
> > Registrations are running about $12/yr now, and
> you
> > can prepay all the way up to 10 years. I've used
> them
> > in the past and they're pretty good.
>
> Why would you want to prepay 10 years?
>
> 1. Next year, domains may be a lot cheaper. I mean,
> really, a domain
> is about 1K of bits on the root servers' disk.
> How much does 1K of
> disk space really cost?
>
> 2. Most of these registration companies are only a
> few months old.
> Will they be there in 10 years? Will your
> registration be
> correctly passed to somebody else if they fold?
>
> --
> K<bob>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
>
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