Hover.com is my favorite. Good prices and no shenanigans.
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I have a 9-digit .xyz domain through cloudflare and I think I pay like ~~$1-2~~ $0.87 a year for it
Should be 87 cents USD. It is a 1.111B class domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz
That sounds right. I just remembered incorrectly
$24.95/yr seems high. Are you looking at a specialty TLD? I paid around 10 USD/yr for a .com with Cloudflare, and 12 CAD/yr for a .ca with Canspace.
Not at all. And that's without whois privacy.
.com .net .org .us .me are $24.95/year
.meme is $24.99/year
.io is whopping $69.00/year
Wait here are you getting a $10/year VPS?
Seriously, my ISP (XMission - local and fucking awesome) charges $27/mo minimum for a VPS
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Formerly Google domains, now owned by squarespace. It costs $13 a year for a .rocks domain.
My namecheap domain (.net) is around 15 USD annually, with basic privacy protection included
I pay 0.04 USD per day with NamesCheap privacy included.
I use Cloudflare as registrar, and I am currently paying for 2 .com and 1 .co domains, US$100 each for 10 years.
I have a .com for like $19.99 but pay to have my info redacted from whois stuff, an email address, all cones to like $42.99
I have a bullshit domain with some nonsense tld and domain name that I pay $0.99/yr for that's on a vps I pay like $150/yr for all told (it's doing stuff).
All told I keep it below $20/month.
I have a .com for like $19.99 but pay to have my info redacted from whois stuff, an email address, all cones to like $42.99
Porkbun charges $11.08 for a .com with whois privacy. $30/year for email hosting might be worth it if you're getting very good service, but I think you're overpaying.
If you’re at all into credit card churning Amex business gold has a new $150 square space credit that can be used for domains. You can prepay for up to 10 years. Their rates are high ($20 for .com) but it’s fake money.
Some will let you pay for up to 10 years at the 1 year price, so if you get a deal on a particular tld (as long as it's not an abused one like .xyz) you can pay upfront and save a decent amount of money.
From memory you should try and avoid 10 year renewals since you can't transfer to a new registrar for the first year of the new renewal.
You'll probably want WHOIS privacy support, so make sure the tld supports it.
I use cloudflare for both my domains. $17 or so each.
Honestly you can spend as little as a couple bucks if you dont care about a name. I like cloudflare but almost any registrar is fine as long as you pay for the domain.
Dunno your region, but Registro.br's domains are rather cheap imo. However, I need to check again, but afaik it's only for people with CPF or CNPJ, the Brazilian equivalents of person and company identification numbers.
I did buy a 10 letter(not random) .cc domain on Namecheap 30€ for the next decade.
https://www.loopia.com/ - ~10 euro/year for only DNS and ~100 euro/year for DNS, e-mail and web hosting.
What website do you get your VPS from?
I got an .org domain from hover.com for $16/yr. They knock $5 off for the first year. They price domains based on popularity of the tld so that can get expensive. Whois privacy is standard and you can buy additional add-ons
I am not renting a VPS from them (only domain registration, an e-mailadres and whois privacy), but have you looked into the offerings from Infomaniak? Mind you, things like the TLD influence the price a lot (reg and/or renewal), and hosting related services can increase costs as well.
I've got one through name.com and I pay I think $15/year for. Not really sure what extra features I'm getting, I don't do much with it.