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Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Namecheap has extra rules if you want to use an API (minimum money spent with them, minimum of domains managed with them etc.) — GoDaddy style.

Keep that in mind, if you need an API (for DDNS or for obtaining wildcard TLS certificates) you'll have to use a separate service for DNS.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You really should have separate services for registration, DNS and hosting. That way you’re not held hostage by a single provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Why should I post someone else for DNS records if namecheap is handling it just fine for my use case?

[–] kitnaht 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

DDNS with Namecheap is as simple as hitting a URL with a /GET request from the IP you want it to point to. No limitations. No special requirements.

[–] NateNate60 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a script running that uses the Namecheap API to automatically get wildcard certs from Let's Encrypt. I didn't pay a dime for this. Did something change?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe you meet the conditions for it? It hasn't been possible to access their API without meeting the conditions for at least a year now.

You don't pay directly for the API, the latest conditions AFAIR are 20+ domains and $50+ on account balance and $50+ spent in the last 2 years.

They also want you to whitelist the IPs that access the DNS which makes it unusable for DynDNS, but at least they have a separate URL for that.