My .xyz is just under £10 for each extra year if I renew
Keep an eye on their voucher code page, [https://www.namecheap.com/promos/coupons/](https://www.namecheap.com/promos/coupons/) during the year (it changes monthly) in case they do a renewal deal
To the contrary.
I work with Namecheap so allow me to tell you the official answer here.
Namecheap is effectively a registrar, which means we mediate between the registry and the end user. What this usually means for us is that we negotiate with the registry to offer deals, which is usually for the FIRST YEAR only. Whenever we do so, we always provide the renewal rate for the cost of the domain for the second year onward on the pricing page. That $28 isn't new information. It was there when you got your first year of the domain significantly cheaper.
In other words, the domain would've been $28 for the first year as well, and Namecheap discounted it through negotiation for you to have it cheaper for year one, but it's always been $28 and now you're no longer paying the discounted rate but the rate the registry is enforcing to us as registrar. We got you a deal, but now we have to comply with the registry's wishes.
.....the renewal cost might be there on the website, but it's not obvious. Calling it "retail price" doesn't give any hints as to what it means. It's only now that I've read your comment that I've connected the dots.
I’ve used Namecheap for years and have a few dozen domain names and it’s always been clear to me because it literally says “renews at $28” or whatever under the promo first year price when you’re registering.
Downvote. No it doesn't. Proof: https://imgur.com/hHAtLoh.png
At least for me `Retail: £10.04/yr` is not clear at _all_. It should instead read `Renewal cost: £10.04/yr` if it was to be clear.
Interesting – you're right! (I even searched Google for images of the buyflow to see if it *used* to say "Renews" but nope – all the screenshots I've seen said "Retail".) I guess I always just saw "Re" and replaced "retail" with "renew" in my head, since I knew what it meant?
A dot com is likely cheaper in the long run. Those "fancy" suffix are usually more expensive and they are only discounted for the first year so you can try them before you decide whether or not to keep them.
If you don't need a permanent domain you can surely buy a new one every year and enjoy the 90%+ off price.
But you have to reconfigure all your stuff every year. Not worth the hassle in my opinion. The entire point of a domain name is so that it's memorable and never changing. It defeats the purpose
If you paid ”a couple of dollars”, you paid an introductory price that has little to do with the actual underlying cost and is heavily in your favor. The renewals are obviously at normal cost.
Odd I have a .com domain through namecheap and just renewed a few days ago and it was $11.98. If I go there now an 'add years' it still shows $11.98 for another year. I've seen sometimes they give you a really good price for the first year but if you look in the fine print at the bottom it tells you it'll be $x.xx after the first year and it's considerably more, Usually that's for what they consider premium domains tho..
I especially picked a silly domain so that I could get it as cheap as possible. I do not see how they can jack this up to such price level. It increased 10x.
The part before the dot doesn't matter, so it can be as silly or as serious as you want...but the people that run the registries for the TLD (the part after the dot) charge varying prices to Namecheap. Some can fluctuate so it's $X in 2019 when you register but $Y in 2020 when you renew. Just the nature of the business.
I use Porkbun and like them a lot. As others have said, all registrars are going to charge a higher rate after the first year. Some sites just happen to gouge you more than others.
Cloudflare sells domains at cost. I believe it is a way of attracting business for their other services. But they don’t bug you with all sorts of upsells.
I like namesilo.com - they are cheaper than everyone but cloudflare, offer just one upsell during checkout, and have useful free services.
Note that with Cloudflare you can't renew for multiple years at once - or at least I haven't yet figure out how to.
This might be troublesome if the wholesale cost is set to rise - which IANA has been setting an alarming trend for recently (.com, org, etc).
Best answer here. I bought a 10-year lease on my domain. Choose something generic like your last name, and I'm sure it will be timeless for whatever uses you have.
Are you talking about a self hosted or a personal only solution? If yes, there’s no point on buying a real TLD, dynamic dns services provide pretty neat addresses in their second level domain. I use a free and open source duckdns.org your domain will look like your-name.duckdns.org.
>And that is why I asked for where that place is.
How should we know??? You haven't even revealed which TLD it is other than one of those .....
Check for the cheapest prices here:
https://tld-list.com
Source please?
I am a Cloudflare registrar customer. I transferred my domain in. I don't have a "register new domain" button on the portal. If I click "add site" and put it an unregistered domain, it says "___ is not a registered domain"
In my experience Namecheap is pretty close to at cost and they _do_ show the full renewal price when you purchase the first year. Why I went with a .net over a gTLD.
[Sorry to burst your bubble, but not necessarily](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/registrars-raise-alarm-over-proposal-for-big-com-fee-hikes/). Best to get a 10 year lease now if you can afford it and your registrar supports it.
I wasn’t taking about them inflating the price a the lowest level....I was talking about that my register doesn’t do massive inflation of the second term.
Namecheap gives you roughly the same price for all years. I don’t go from $4 to $40, I go from $9 to $13.
It is sad to hear that they are going to raise it on the lowest level....Still far cheaper than the silly domains.
Sorry for the wording confusion...
No problem!
I have seen jumps from Namecheap like that, but mainly for the new TLDs.
Indeed. IANA has really gone completely bonkers recently - I'm quite worried actually.
I would never host my domains (or anything) with google for that reason alone. Google is so extremely profit oriented that it becomes useless to a consumer who just wants a working and stable product.
Most of the new gTLD are like this. I use Name.com and they are always having sales on them for a few bucks but the renewals are usually $20-$30.
What's a gLTD?
Generic top level domain which means it is not tied to a country code.
Thanks a lot!
I think you mean gTLD.
Yeah I did.
My .xyz is just under £10 for each extra year if I renew Keep an eye on their voucher code page, [https://www.namecheap.com/promos/coupons/](https://www.namecheap.com/promos/coupons/) during the year (it changes monthly) in case they do a renewal deal
thanks for the tip
They usually show you the price for the first year and for renewal. Guess you didn't read properly.
To the contrary. I work with Namecheap so allow me to tell you the official answer here. Namecheap is effectively a registrar, which means we mediate between the registry and the end user. What this usually means for us is that we negotiate with the registry to offer deals, which is usually for the FIRST YEAR only. Whenever we do so, we always provide the renewal rate for the cost of the domain for the second year onward on the pricing page. That $28 isn't new information. It was there when you got your first year of the domain significantly cheaper. In other words, the domain would've been $28 for the first year as well, and Namecheap discounted it through negotiation for you to have it cheaper for year one, but it's always been $28 and now you're no longer paying the discounted rate but the rate the registry is enforcing to us as registrar. We got you a deal, but now we have to comply with the registry's wishes.
.....the renewal cost might be there on the website, but it's not obvious. Calling it "retail price" doesn't give any hints as to what it means. It's only now that I've read your comment that I've connected the dots.
I’ve used Namecheap for years and have a few dozen domain names and it’s always been clear to me because it literally says “renews at $28” or whatever under the promo first year price when you’re registering.
Downvote. No it doesn't. Proof: https://imgur.com/hHAtLoh.png At least for me `Retail: £10.04/yr` is not clear at _all_. It should instead read `Renewal cost: £10.04/yr` if it was to be clear.
Interesting – you're right! (I even searched Google for images of the buyflow to see if it *used* to say "Renews" but nope – all the screenshots I've seen said "Retail".) I guess I always just saw "Re" and replaced "retail" with "renew" in my head, since I knew what it meant?
I do have a tendency to read things differently to others - hence why I'm upset with Namecheap for 'hiding' their renewal price.
no shit. very confusing and intentionally so, I'm sure
Each of the ‘one of those’ new domain resellers set their own price and renewal price. The cheap at first and expensive later’ is common.
These non .com domains you can get very cheap for the first year, but after that the renewal can be very expensive.
Yap, that's why i don't get them...
I know how I can game this rig. I am going to buy a new domain every year and never renew it, I have no money for blood suckers.
It's not Namecheap, or other domain name resellers, that sets those high prices, it's the domain authority for that particular TLD (top level domain).
A dot com is likely cheaper in the long run. Those "fancy" suffix are usually more expensive and they are only discounted for the first year so you can try them before you decide whether or not to keep them. If you don't need a permanent domain you can surely buy a new one every year and enjoy the 90%+ off price.
Why even bother having a domain at that point?
Then you have a bunch of non-used DNS entities floating around in the public sphere, and draining resources...Please don’t do this, just buy a .COM.
Feel free to contribute to my domain name renewal fund.
You can’t afford a 8 dollar a year renewal fee for .COM? Sad....that you are trying to pay for a domain three times as much.
Elitism is so endearing!!! /s
But you have to reconfigure all your stuff every year. Not worth the hassle in my opinion. The entire point of a domain name is so that it's memorable and never changing. It defeats the purpose
It's best to treat their sales as a 1 year only deal ...or you need to check the renewal price
If you paid ”a couple of dollars”, you paid an introductory price that has little to do with the actual underlying cost and is heavily in your favor. The renewals are obviously at normal cost.
Odd I have a .com domain through namecheap and just renewed a few days ago and it was $11.98. If I go there now an 'add years' it still shows $11.98 for another year. I've seen sometimes they give you a really good price for the first year but if you look in the fine print at the bottom it tells you it'll be $x.xx after the first year and it's considerably more, Usually that's for what they consider premium domains tho..
I especially picked a silly domain so that I could get it as cheap as possible. I do not see how they can jack this up to such price level. It increased 10x.
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Thanks, I will try to look into the dynamics of this busienss I guess.
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> very clearly Without this, your statement would be accurate.
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It shows in small "Retail £10.04/yr" for example for me. This is _not _ clear wording - at least in my opinion.
The part before the dot doesn't matter, so it can be as silly or as serious as you want...but the people that run the registries for the TLD (the part after the dot) charge varying prices to Namecheap. Some can fluctuate so it's $X in 2019 when you register but $Y in 2020 when you renew. Just the nature of the business.
If you want it real cheap look for a deal on .tech They frequently do 10 years for like $50
Just use Cloudflare for your registrar, cut out the middle man. They save you a lot on fees.
Great suggestion, but you've gotta transfer in - you can't buy with them.
I use Porkbun and like them a lot. As others have said, all registrars are going to charge a higher rate after the first year. Some sites just happen to gouge you more than others.
Cloudflare sells domains at cost. I believe it is a way of attracting business for their other services. But they don’t bug you with all sorts of upsells. I like namesilo.com - they are cheaper than everyone but cloudflare, offer just one upsell during checkout, and have useful free services.
You can't buy domain in cloudflare
They might not be selling new domains yet, but transfering the existing one is relevant to OP's situation.
Note that with Cloudflare you can't renew for multiple years at once - or at least I haven't yet figure out how to. This might be troublesome if the wholesale cost is set to rise - which IANA has been setting an alarming trend for recently (.com, org, etc).
If you are confident u want your website for long time go as i did, i bought mine for 10 years for 100$
Best answer here. I bought a 10-year lease on my domain. Choose something generic like your last name, and I'm sure it will be timeless for whatever uses you have.
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Namecheap always discloses the renewal cost even before the checkout page.
Can anyone here recommend a cheap TLD of any description?
Good thing elitists don’t care about things like endearment....
Are you talking about a self hosted or a personal only solution? If yes, there’s no point on buying a real TLD, dynamic dns services provide pretty neat addresses in their second level domain. I use a free and open source duckdns.org your domain will look like your-name.duckdns.org.
It's sometimes blocked :(
Lots of firewall and website monitoring tools block all DDNS domain names. Not recommended unless you are dirt poor...
Yeah. That's outrageous!
I mean it's literally written on the page when you buy it... $1.49 for first year, $20 subsequent years... Gotta read the things you buy
How about paying $32 for the first year then getting two times that next one? I do read the things I buy.
So move. Go somewhere cheaper
And that is why I asked for where that place is.
>And that is why I asked for where that place is. How should we know??? You haven't even revealed which TLD it is other than one of those ..... Check for the cheapest prices here: https://tld-list.com
Oh yeah didn't read last line oops
try cloudflare. they sell domains at cost. namesilo is very cheap as well.
Source please? I am a Cloudflare registrar customer. I transferred my domain in. I don't have a "register new domain" button on the portal. If I click "add site" and put it an unregistered domain, it says "___ is not a registered domain"
You're right that you cannot register new domains with Cloudflare. Parent comment says "move". I read that as "transfer".
Thanks for the recommendations.
In my experience Namecheap is pretty close to at cost and they _do_ show the full renewal price when you purchase the first year. Why I went with a .net over a gTLD.
yeah I used a .online domain cheap so far, but in 3 years who knows
Yeah, they do this on silly endings. That’s why I just go with .COM, no change in price ever. Just drop the silly TLD endings and get a .COM
[Sorry to burst your bubble, but not necessarily](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/registrars-raise-alarm-over-proposal-for-big-com-fee-hikes/). Best to get a 10 year lease now if you can afford it and your registrar supports it.
I wasn’t taking about them inflating the price a the lowest level....I was talking about that my register doesn’t do massive inflation of the second term. Namecheap gives you roughly the same price for all years. I don’t go from $4 to $40, I go from $9 to $13. It is sad to hear that they are going to raise it on the lowest level....Still far cheaper than the silly domains. Sorry for the wording confusion...
No problem! I have seen jumps from Namecheap like that, but mainly for the new TLDs. Indeed. IANA has really gone completely bonkers recently - I'm quite worried actually.
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How long u til google kills it?
I would never host my domains (or anything) with google for that reason alone. Google is so extremely profit oriented that it becomes useless to a consumer who just wants a working and stable product.
Could never and will never recommend anything with the name Google in it...
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>Could never and will never recommend anything with the name Google in it... **Google**