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Short pieces on the pricing this site measures. Every figure in them is filled from the same daily rebuild as the tables, so nothing here can quietly go stale.
Guide of the month
Every extension on the board, its promotional first year set against the standing renewal, ranked by the gap. The worst multiplies by 79.
Starting out
Registration, renewal, transfer, and the gap between them. The median renewal across the extensions we price is $21.00, and the worst extensions renew at many times their first year.
Transfers
A transfer adds a year at every registrar on this board, which makes it a renewal that also changes who you pay — and on a good many extensions, moving once is cheaper than staying put for five years.
Registrars
There is no single cheapest registrar. Across the extensions we price, the winner changes with the extension — and the registrar that wins year one is often not the one that wins over five.
ccTLDs
A country extension is priced and governed by the national operator that runs it. That changes who may register, what a renewal does, and how much of any of it can be confirmed from a public source.
Coupons
Nearly every code discounts one year, most carry a condition, and a code that beats the shelf price at one registrar can still lose to another registrar's ordinary price.
Data
Why a price in the wrong currency is dropped rather than converted, which prices are excluded on purpose, and which checks stop a bad build shipping.
On this page
How domain pricing actually behaves — which renewals moved, which promotions are worth taking, and where the gap between a sign-up price and a five-year cost is widest.
The tables across the site are rebuilt daily; a post reflects prices on the day it was written and says so. Where a point depends on a live number, the post links to the page carrying it.
No. No registrar pays for coverage or placement, here or anywhere else on the site.
When there is something worth reporting — a registry price rise, a promotion worth acting on, or a pattern in the data. Not on a content schedule.
Quote freely with a link. The underlying prices are the registrars' own published figures and are available through the free API.