WordPress introduces 100-year domain registrations
Never worry regarding renewing your domain again, if you trust Automattic to do it for you.
A couple of years following introducing a pre-paid, 100-year hosting package, WordPress.com’s parent firm, Automattic, is offering 100-year domain registrations.
The ICANN-accredited registrar is offering 100-year domains in .com, .org, .net, and .blog. .Com and .net are managed by Verisign, .org by Public Interest Registry, and Automattic operates .blog.
What does it cost to lock in and not have to worry regarding a domain for 100 years? $2,000.
Of course, none of the registries can offer registrations for more than 10 years at a time. So registrants are counting on Automattic being around for 100 years and activing the renewals.
That might have been a better bet a year ago ahead of Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went on a scorched earth campaign to destroy his firm’s and his personal reputation.
Automattic isn’t the first firm to offer 100-year registrations. Network Solutions previously offered them. Epik offered “Forever Domains”,”which promised to renew domains forever, for $420.
Given how the latter example worked out for registrants, I’d proceed with caution.
