Network Solutions Offers 100 Year Domain Service

[rogerd]

Just in case you are always worried about forgetting to renew your domains, or are worried your grandchildren will forget, Network Solutions is offering a 100 year renewal for $9.99 a year, payable now.

Do you have confidence that Network Solutions will be around for a hundred years, and will steward your prepayment wisely? Info is at [networksolutions.com...]

[SlowMove]

Maybe if I sign up 10 or 12 times for this 100 year package, they'll throw in a couple hundred years of free hosting.

[pleeker]

My God ... a 100-year commitment to Network Solutions?! I won't be able to sleep tonight. Thanks rogerd.

:)

[kevinpate]

When it goes on sale for 0.99 a year, someone please give this thread a bump. Til then however, seeing as I haven't clue one what I'm having for lunch tomorrow, I think I'll pass on worrying about the renewal prospects for 2102 and 2103 and the intervening years.

[rfgdxm1]

Adding to what someone else commented about a century with Netsol:

"The horror, the horror."

[amznVibe]

I wonder how many fortune 500 companies are going to fall for this out of missed renewal fears?

[skippy]

The Washington Post Probably. The did forget to renew not too long ago.

[nkakar]

why would someone go to networksolutions for 100 years and pay 9.99 /year when you can pay $2 more and pay on automated basis every year through several other companies.. this way your domain automatically gets renewed and u only get charged $12..

just a thought!

[martinibuster]

Great find rogerd!

It's a great move on netsol's part. Love it.

disclaimer: I'm not saying I love netsol, only saying that it's a brilliant business move on their part.

[moltar]

Just did a whois on networksolutions.com

Domain Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: [networksolutions.com...]
Name Server: NS2.NETSOL.COM
Name Server: NS1.NETSOL.COM
Name Server: NS3.NETSOL.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 18-mar-2004
Creation Date: 27-apr-1998
Expiration Date: 26-apr-2013

Offtopic: also noticed some whois spam... Someone is listed a subdomain into whois somehow...

[Edwin]

A hundred years is a bit much, but if you were the owner of a domain that made e.g. $1,000 a day, isn't it (theoretically) worth at least thinking about investing one day's revenue into safeguarding the domain registration for the next 36,500-and-a-bit days?

I'm guessing this would also make it easier for people with significant valuable portfolios to will them to their next of kin - even if it takes them 10 years to get up to speed on Papa's domains, they'll still be around at the end of the process.

[amznVibe]

Well if netsol (verisign) can offer $1000 for 100 years, then other registrars will probably be offering $600 soon for the same (I think $500 has to be the stop point, its cost). Technically if the base price went up and they had to honor the contract, this would be a good deal for a 20+ year business.

But considering the USA is only 225 years old, a 100 year renewal is kinda crazy, web technology will be replaced several times over even at the 50 year mark. Remember, few companies own just ONE domain, it's usually several and then some pre-emptive registrations (ie. exmaplesucks.com)

[mbauser2]

Someone is listed a subdomain into whois somehow...

Old trick -- it's a nameserver listing. DNS servers have always gotten their own listings.

[rogerd]

It's really not a terrible idea from a marketing standpoint. For a large company with a few domains, spending a few grand beats paying your corporate counsel or ever-changing IT staff to keep up with expiration dates.

Financially, of course, they are creating an obligation far into the future, but the actual costs will be presumably negligible. And what accountant won't love the cash flow aspects of a hundred years of revenue paid up front? ;)

[sidyadav]

But will "domains" or the "Internet" last that long? This is like giving a free 100 year Ball Dance pass to someone in the 1900's.

Sid