I’m looking to register a new domain but hate how pricing is $0.01 first year, $1M renewal. It doesn’t seem like a deal if it’s going to cost so much to renew.
Are there any transparent registrars or any tools that will give you a cost over 3 years or something?
I’ll be honest, I did Google it but you’ll never guess what the top hit was. I didn’t click. I’m putting this here in a small attempt to transfer some knowledge to the fediverse.
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You mentioned this elsewhere, but for those who don’t know xyz 1.111B class are incredibly cheap numerical xyz domains.
Google domains served me well before Google decided to kill it… oh well…
Me, just now, learning about that for the first time:
Very cheap domains that actually renew at that price? That’s interesting, though I guess you could almost just as well memorize your IPv4 address for free instead. Except you get to pick this number and use subdomains. Now l just have to think of a memorable 6 to 9 digit number…
I guess still having my ICQ number memorized might finally be useful for something! Who’d have thought?
Tips for good numbers: dates work pretty well. Another thing you can do is use a simple cipher The simplest one is the one on old touch-tone phones. Then just memorize a word and convert it e.g. F-L-A-S-H-Y = 352749.
Or just use a password manager like bitwarden and keep it in there.
That’s awesome! I just snatched my phone numbers (phone numbers are 8 digits in my country) as domains.
Porkbun is very straightforward with renewal prices, great registrar all around.
I’ve heard good things about cloudflares domain registrar services. I can’t vouch for them but when I looked at transferring my domains, their prices were very competitive and sometimes cheaper than the average.
Personally I’ve had good experience with Namecheap, I would’ve said Google Domains but…yeah…
Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s domain registration is also a decent option.
You pay wholesale+ICANN fee. There are no ‘special deals’ or whatever, but the price is clear, and predictable, and you can (reasonably) guess what it’ll cost you next year unless the registrar and/or ICANN dink with the costs.
I did see that cloudflare tends to have a similar first and subsequent year price which is much more straight forward. I do actually have a domain with them. I was looking for another cheap domain to tinker with so I went for an 8 figure .xyz but from namecheap rather than porkbun as it was 85c for the year instead of $1.66 . Renewal price says it will be the same as the first year.
I’ve found most registrars will at least list the price after the first year. So you should be able to buy it for $0.01 with the clear knowledge of the normal yearly price to expect. I’ve used Cloudflare for registration and they’re pretty good, only issue was some TLDs that weren’t supported by them. PorkBun seems to get a good review. I personally use a local registrar who offers TLDs local to my country.
porkbun.com tells you the renewal cost. the cheapest is a series of at least 6 numbers with the .xyz domain.
That is nuts! Nice tip!
Cloudflare. 0 markup
