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.

  • pvq@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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…

    • clb92@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s awesome! I just snatched my phone numbers (phone numbers are 8 digits in my country) as domains.

    • Perhyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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?

  • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • jalim@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.