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Re:Ask HN: Namecheap jacked up the price on a domain name, c... by furyofantares on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:37AM (#35209945)
Fair? Sure. Interesting? Not even slightly.
Re:Ask HN: Namecheap jacked up the price on a domain name, c... by simplotek on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:42AM (#35210001)
> Fair? Sure. Interesting? Not even slightly.

Anyone can opt to go off tangents playing semantics games. Meanwhile, if a company portrays itself as selling cheap products and services and then charges a hefty premium in exchange for nothing, they deserve being called out on what amounts to false advertising.

Re:Ask HN: Namecheap jacked up the price on a domain name, c... by furyofantares on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:41PM (#35213913)
The first thing in the HN guidelines is this:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

GP suggested the complaint about nameCHEAP wasn't well received because it's boring, not because it's wrong or unfair. It's not a semantic game I'm playing, I agree that the reason the complaint wouldn't be well received is because it is boring/not interesting.

Downvotes may not mean "this company doesn't deserve to be called out." They may mean "I didn't come here to wade through boring content."