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Ask HN: What you paying for .com renewal and with whom
5 points by quintes on Jan 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments
1. Who are you using as the registrar? 2. How much is your annual renewal?



I use a mixture of Cloudflare and Porkbun.

Cloudflare offers domains at cost however there are a few caveats:

- they don't support all TLDs

- they require use of their own nameservers

- in order to transfer a domain from one Cloudflare account to another, you have to transfer it to an external registrar first and then transfer back in. A bit bizarre

I still like Cloudflare though :)


I use Cloudflare, Namecheap and Iwantmyname, but will probably slowly migrate to Cloudflare Registrar. Since domain registrations aren't their primary business, I hope they will keep charging the minimum only.

I like when companies provide services which help their business indirectly, so they have an incentive to keep that service accessible and simple.

But overall annual renewal is around $60 USD.


There is another perspective to be aware of on this... I have been caught out by a service provider when it became clear the service I was using wasn't their main business - and their interest in properly maintaining and operating that service dropped - profoundly.


Thanks for this. How many domains are included in the $60?


Ha, now that I checked it's much more than $60, it is around $110. Six domains in total.


1. https://tld-list.com/tld/com

2. Click "Renew" to sort by renewal fee.

I personally use:

- Cloudflare

- Porkbun: when I want use a custom nameserver (like Vercel)

- Sav: domain I want to sell (coolcases.com; used to be cheapest transfer/renewal?)


Ah useful thank you!


Cloudflare. They claim to charge cost only, which iirc is about $9. Been using them for a few years, and have migrated domaina from other registrars, with no problems.


I use namecheap.com. Just checked a couple domains and it's about $15-16 each.


NJAL.LA for privacy reasons. EUR 15.00 per year which I don't mind.


Cloudflare Registrar has been amazing for me.


Cloudflare Registrar, they charge cost only ($9.77 atm)


Fasthosts £18 per year


netim as I like independents and peace of mind. $15.


Porkbun about 10.37




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