WordPress launches 100-year domain registrations for $38,000

[Jan]

WordPress offers 100-year domain registrations — for R702,400

Website web content management system and hosting service WordPress has started selling domain registrations for 100 years.

Domain registrations typically last from a year to 10 years, making WordPress's latest proposition unconventional.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Well young ones, there goes many of your inheritances.

Yet another lost generation!

 

[Harmonic]

@backstreetboy @epah you can get ilovecapitec.com and philipsaretheonlytrueairfryers.com for life now!

 

[Sapphiron]

Not only won't we be able to afford property.

There won't be any domain names under 20 characters available.

 

[rvZA]

This sounds like a terribly bad investment and waste of money.

 

[rvZA]

There won't be any domain names under 20 characters available.

I am still lucky to have a couple 2-character .net domains as well as a single 3-letter .com. Not using any of them as websites, but rather as investments.

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

WordPress offers 100-year domain registrations — for R702,400

Website web content management system and hosting service WordPress has started selling domain registrations for 100 years.

Domain registrations typically last from a year to 10 years, making WordPress's latest proposition unconventional.

pulling up the ladder..

 

[hj007]

So what happens when they go bankrupt?

 

[rvZA]

So what happens when they go bankrupt?

There is currently no 100 year offer by any registrar across the globe. I suspect they will use an initial amount from your payment and renew it for 10 years. They will likely re-invest the remainder and renew your domain every 10 years. So, if they go belly up, I see a situation where they will likely transfer your domain back to you, and you will be responsible for future renewals. If you passed away obviously it is all gone.

 

[backstreetboy]

Lol we’re all going to be extinct 100 years from now. Pointless.

 

[rvZA]

Lol we’re all going to be extinct 100 years from now. Pointless.

Doom and gloom...

 

[comanche]

Some more bad research at play here. This is an offer by Wordpres.com, not "Website web content management system and hosting service WordPress".

The two are separate entities. It's like calling me an Editor on MyBroadband because I wrote this comment.

Relating to the offer, it's worth noting that it includes hosting, so would come up to about R600/m for 100 years.

I'm sure that inflation would make it worthwhile.
Then again, I'd happily take the 700k and invest it somewhere instead!