100 year domain registrations go on sale

[nissmo300]

100 year domain registrations go on sale

Network Solutions is offering 100 year domain name registrations for .com and .net domains.

"Many companies are finding out the hard way that their domain names were registered by employees or even contractors who are no longer around, and, as a result, they may not find out the registration was due to expire until their web site or e-mail system stops working," said Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell. "We've responded with a unique and affordable service that will help protect our customers against those risks."

Customers are effectively gambling hundreds of pounds on Network Solutions' longevity though because domain names can only be registered for ten years. Network Solutions adds extra years to the registration annually.

According to VeriSign, the global domain name registry for all .com and .net domain names, more than 2 million domain name registrations were reactivated in the last six months after being allowed to expire.


www.networksolutions.com

[lordsmurf]

This is not a solution to the supposed problem.

The problem is, of course, poor organization by the company, as well as a lack of understanding about how the Internet works. I think it's funny companies let that happen to them. Serves them right.

[nissmo300]

It'll cost me $999 for a 100 year registration of my domian. $9.99 a year is pretty bad considering you will purchase a domain for 100 years, they should make it cheaper becuase of that reason.

[BJ_M]

it is cheap for two reasons..

1. in 100 years, there will be no com adresses ever around ...

2. 9.99$ a year 100 years from now will be like 25cents a year in todays money ...


on the other hand ... i doubt that the internet will even work the same way 100 years from now making the whole thing redundent .... plus many companies will not be around anyway (like apple :P ) and you get all these non companies parking on domains not in use ...

[ChrisX]

I feel every five or ten years is enough and 100 years is absurd.

I wouldn't be here at 2104 and I'll be dead for a long time by then.

To 2006 or to 2010 is ahead enough to plan anything.

Anyway, my domains is usually on a five year registration and 10 years is longest for me.

Consider the fact, I might be run over by a car tomorrow?

What if you changed your mind on that domain name and you committed a 100 years on that domain name address? That would be waste of money.

[handyguy]

I remember when Network Solutions was selling ten year ones so I bought mine but their computer system couldn't handle a ten year period for some reason. I bet it would happen with this too.

[ChrisX]

It'll cost me $999 for a 100 year registration of my domian. $9.99 a year is pretty bad considering you will purchase a domain for 100 years, they should make it cheaper becuase of that reason.

I know of one domain register so much cheaper and I don't have do it for 100 years.

I can do it cheaply with that domain register for one year at $8.88.

Does anyone can get a domain any cheaper still?

[gmatov]

Cheaper? Go here:
https://registrar.godaddy.com/default.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=&authGuid=

As low as 4.05 per year, 10 year term.

BJ,

9.99 in a hundred years will be like a quarter, true, which means that at 40 times inflation, you will be paying the equivalent, now, of 400 bucks a year.

Consider inflation, it is low, interest rates are low, it's high, interest is high, because the money is worth less each year, but the interest makes them whole.

Here, you simply pay them with today's dollars for next century's service. And, if the original employee is leaving and no one knows the name is expiring after 5 or 10 years, who in the hell will remember it in 100 years?

You lose your name in one year, make up a new one. But after 100 years, everybody would know who you are, and now the name doesn't work. Wow, what a screwup that would be.

Cheers,
George

[MikieV]

.... plus many companies will not be around anyway (like apple :P ) ...

I must not be a real Mac user, or else I'd be

Mike