Coupons
How registrar coupon codes actually work
This site holds 632 coupon codes across 135 extensions. They are worth understanding rather than trusting, because what a code does is narrower than what it appears to do.
A code is one term, usually the first
43% of the codes here apply to registration. The rest split between a single renewal term and a transfer in. A registration code changes what you pay in year one and nothing after it; the renewal that follows is the undiscounted price, which is the number that decides what the domain actually costs. If you want the code to affect year two, it has to be a renewal code, and those are rarer.
Most codes have strings attached
100% of them carry at least one stated condition. The usual ones:
- Limit per customer. Where a limit is stated it runs from a handful of domains to a hundred. A code is not an open discount on bulk.
- New customers only. First order on a new account, which excludes anyone already holding names there.
- Transfers from a named registrar. Some transfer codes only work when the name is moving away from one specific competitor.
- An expiry date, where the listing states one. Many state none, which is not the same as not having one.
Every coupon panel on this site lists those as labelled rows — what the code applies to, the limit, whether new customers only, when it expires — and prints anything the parser did not recognise verbatim rather than dropping it.
A code can win its own row and still lose
A discount is measured against the registrar that issued it, not against the market. On 66 extensions a registration code exists and the cheapest first year is still somebody else's ordinary shelf price: the code genuinely takes money off, and the discounted total is still not the lowest number on the page.
Where a code does reach the lowest price, that price is the headline here, because the price a reader can actually pay is the one worth comparing — and it always ships with the code beside it. The build fails if a discounted figure is rendered without the code that reaches it.
Where these codes come from, and what that is worth
They are collected from public coupon listings and from a hand-maintained file in this repository. Nothing here is tested at a checkout. This site cannot buy a domain to prove a code works, so it does not claim any of them do. Codes get withdrawn, run out of budget, apply only to accounts in a particular country, or fail silently at the last step. Treat every one as a claim to be verified in the basket, not a price.
Using one sensibly
- Compare the five-year total, not the discounted first year. A code cannot fix a renewal.
- Paste it in and read the order total before paying. That is the only number that is real.
- If it fails, check the conditions before assuming the code is dead — most failures are the limit or the new-customer rule, not expiry.
The coupon list ranks the codes by what each one takes off, with its conditions attached.