GoDaddy offers $5.99 renewals; other registrars have discounts too.
When you multiply domain name registration and renewal costs across thousands of domains, saving even a few dimes per registration adds up quickly. Many registrars offer “preferred” pricing for large domain name owners. This article will discuss some of this pricing along with a coupon code for domain renewals at Godaddy.
GoDaddy –GoDaddy has special offers almost daily. I get an e-mail from the company literally every other day with a special offer. But most of these offers apply to new registrations only, not renewals. But here’s a coupon code for cheap renewals on .com and .net: GDBB776. It worked as of yesterday to give me a .com renewal for $5.99 +.22 ICANN fee, or $6.21. If you have a lot of domains at GoDaddy you should use this code before GoDaddy yanks it. I don’t know the expiration date.
GoDaddy’s regular prices are $9.17 for .com domains. GoDaddy offers a domain discount club for $79.99 per year. This club entitles you to .com domains for $6.71 per year along with a host of other goodies. If you are a GoDaddy customer with 30 or more domains then you should sign up for the club.
Moniker – Moniker’s every day .com price is $9.95 per year. But most customers have preferred pricing as low as $6.95 for .com and $5.49 for .net. To qualify you must hold many domains at Moniker and pre-pay your account in increments of at least $500 at a time. However, Moniker offers interest-free financing plans for people that want to transfer a number of domains at one time to the registrar. To get the best pricing send an email to editor (at) domainnamewire.com.
Dotster – Dotster advertises domain registrations for $14.95. But only first timers pay that much. Dotster will offer you preferred pricing of $8.95 for .com registrations and $6.00 for transfers if you ask (or start transferring your domains out). Or, just use Dotster’s lower-priced affiliate MyDomain.com for $8.25 registrations every day.
eNom –eNom used to offer standard pricing on its web page, but I can’t find it. It was expensive, too. But I don’t know anyone who ever paid those prices. Instead, you sign up as a reseller and get favorable pricing. Don’t worry, you don’t have to actually sell domains registrationsto be a reseller. You can be your only customer. Although I don’t keep many domains at eNom anymore, my pricing is $8.95 for .coms. The more you spend with eNom over time the lower your price becomes.
1&1 –1&1 uses domain name sales as a loss leader to sell hosting. (When the company first entered the consumer webhosting business a few years ago it offered three years of free hosting to anyone who wanted it. They like this business model.) .Com domains cost only $5.99 including free domain privacy. But you’ll pay the price in a cumbersome management interface.
Bottom Line – If you’re paying more than $8 for .coms then you’re paying too much. You can expect prices to increase a bit later this year when VeriSign increases its wholesale prices by 7% for .com and 10% for .net.
Patrick McDermott says
Thanks for posting this Andrew.
I’d also like to share a few points.
As you pointed out, the GoDaddy discount coupon codes come via email either in the GoDaddy newsletter or in the renewal notices.
If you don’t receive the newsletter be sure to request it from the Control Panel.
And be sure to check the renewal notices.
If you simply log into your account to order domains or do a renewal, you will not automatically get the discount without the codes.
Know also that there are often many offers
at the same time.
GoDaddy often makes special offers thru various venues.
You can often find some of these discount codes by doing a Google search for “GoDaddy coupons”.
There’s also a site dedicated to domain coupon codes- DNCoupons.com.
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Moniker requires the $500 prepay IF you are funding your account with a credit card.
Credit card transaction fees is the reason, I believe.
You can mail in a check for a lesser amount (although it will of course take longer).
At least this is what I was told.
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Regarding 1and1.com, besides the cumbersome management interface, domains are NOT ordered
in real time.
It takes 24 to 48 hours to get a domain registered.
Nowhere on their site is this very important
info mentioned.
You need to know this if you are trying to register recent domain drops or any domain for that matter.
This is not theory.
I have hundreds of domains at 1and1.
I have lost many domains because of this lag time.
Domains that were available when I placed my order were registered by others.
I saw that those domains I lost were regged many hours or the next day after my reg order.
After contacting 1and1 about this ,I received an email that stated it takes 24 to 48 hours to register a domain “and there is nothing that can be done about this”.
1and1 is a subsidiary of Schlund.de.
Although I don’t know for certain, I suspect
domain orders at 1and1 are being aggregated and batch sent to Schlund.de to be regged.
I have learned my lesson and will never order from 1and1 again.
However, if you already have domains that are important ,you can Transfer them to 1and 1
to get the low rate.
Just remember you cannot do Bulk updates for
DNS ,etc.
Patrick
Stephan says
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Stephan
Chris Nielsen says
“Basic” first year registration at Domainsite.com is $6.99. After the first year it’s $7.99.
Registration at NameCheap.com is $8.88, but it includes private Whois. That plus other features including the most pain-free domain push option have made them my faviorite.
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