<story><title>Namecheap now offer .io domains</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/domains/extensions-tlds/cctld/io.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of namecheap, but given their name I&amp;#x27;m surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).&lt;p&gt;Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>Maybe that&amp;#x27;s the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn&amp;#x27;t have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight &amp;quot;deviant uses of the internet&amp;quot; to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi&amp;#x27;s service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it were registered through them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.gandi.net&amp;#x2F;static&amp;#x2F;contracts&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;g2&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;MSA-1.3-EN.pd...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Namecheap now offer .io domains</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/domains/extensions-tlds/cctld/io.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlss</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of namecheap, but given their name I&amp;#x27;m surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).&lt;p&gt;Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Namecheap is just an eNom reseller[1].  They simply use the eNom API to handle all domain management and registration.  Their prices are dictated by the prices given to them by eNom.&lt;p&gt;Their business is low margin, high volume.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshooter.aspx/13/136/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.namecheap.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;knowledgebase&amp;#x2F;troubleshoote...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>