You’ve been paying more at the pump. Now you’re paying more at the registrar.
I’m not sure when this happened, but a reader pointed out that GoDaddy has hiked prices on .net and .org domain names to $13.19 per domain. That’s a 30% increase.
This is probably just a business decision by GoDaddy to maximize profit. It can easily calculate how many .net and .org sales it loses and determine if the price hike is worth it.
When I asked GoDaddy about its high prices on Neustar offered domains back in June, a company spokesperson said “Our price points are a product of our internal research, testing and other market indicators.”
That’s fair. But registrars like GoDaddy can’t raise prices like this and then complain to congress about registry price hikes at VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and other registries. GoDaddy has done that in the past, despite the fact that it has charged more for .net than .com frequently in its history and VeriSign charges much less for .net than .com.
If you’re a GoDaddy faithful, I’d recommend signing up with the Discount Domain Club. It costs $89.99 to join, but then you pay $6.95 for .com and $7.19 for .net and .org. Given current GoDaddy prices, you’ll make up the membership fee with as few as 15 registrations. You can save an extra 2% by prepaying by check or wire transfer.
Wow, what a kick in the pants for .net and .org owners.
I see .biz is $14.99 and .us is $19.99.
I am a WWD reseller and see that my minimums are now $9.99 for .net and .org, also same for .biz and .us.
Any idea how the discount domain club compares to WWD reseller rates?
Hi Andrew,
I would also suggest following the multitude of
GoDaddy coupons which come and go.
For example here are some recent coupon codes I collected:
chill3 – $6.95 .com renewals
cjc695b2 -$6.95 & .20 = $7.15 for .COM
goxtgi200c $6.85 .com Renewals
catalog7 25% off a $75 or greater order
gdbb776 reduces .COM/.net on TDNAM from $9.99 to around $7.50
gdp0723d $6.99 .info renewal. Expires July 31, 2008
gdp0716s Register, renew or transfer your .NET domain and SAVE 30% expires July 31, 2008
gdp0627h $6.99 .org domains
gdp0627e 30% off a .com renewal
downforce 15% off just about anything
gdp0627e will take 30 percent off .com, .net, .org and .us at TDNAM closeouts
Some of these codes have expired…but new ones pop up.
You can find codes by simply typing in “GoDaddy coupon codes” into Google.
There is also a thread dedicated to GD coupon codes at NamePros which you can find here:
http://snurl.com/CouponCodes
Be sure to go to the Last Pages only as the earlier ones are essentially outdated.
Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly.com wrote a nice article on GD coupon codes and included what he calls a Trick to help you find the best code.
His article here:
http://snurl.com/CouponTrick
How to test codes and get the Best Deal.
1.Enter a nonsense domain into GoDaddy.
2.Continue to the Shopping Cart.
3.There is a space to enter your Coupon Code.
4.Enter it and see if the price changes.
5.You can continue entering codes until you find the best one.
6.Empty the Shopping Cart.
7.Register the actual domain(s) you want using the coupon code that’s best.
By the way, advertised GoDaddy prices do NOT include the 20 cent ICANN fee so you have to add it in when comparing prices.
Patrick
Rob – .biz is $8.19 and .us is $14.99 with Domain Discount Club. Of course, they can raise those prices whenever they want, too.
That unfortunate that they’re jacking up the price for resellers. You can lose a lot of your customers.
I use Name.com:
.com $5.99/yr
.net $5.89/yr
Nice support and fast and easy to use website. They do have lots of room for improvement for their UI though. It doesn’t allow for the creation of folders for domain categorization, and that makes it inconvenient if you have over 100 names.
An exttention to Patrick’s comment above, I have a buch more GoDaddy discount codes that have no limits on the number of times used, and mostly no expiration date:
MTECH1 for 10% off your order
MTECH2 for 20% off $50 or more
MTECH30 for 6.95USD .com domains – works on renewals
MTECH50 for 50% off .co.uk domains for first year
MTECH25 for 25% off $100 or more (expires 25 Sept 08)
Looks like the mother of all codes, which was working yesterday, is TEST99 which gives you .com domains for 99 cents.
Goodness. It was 12.99 for .net/.org this morning (Sept. 4) and now $14.99. Seriously, $14.99! “gdp0829a” gets you .org for 7.99, but godaddy’s gone too far. Transferring next renewal.
Wow, thanks John. I just wrote a new story.
Most of the codes listed (any coupon that ends in 1,2,or 3) expired several days back on june 16 2009.
Here are all the active Godaddy coupon codes I located that are guaranteed to work for you.
ZINE7 – $7.49 .com domains and renewals
ZINE6 – $5 discount on all orders of $30 or more
ZINE5 – 10% off anything
The Zine codes are going to be active til 2010, so please feel free to reblog the complete zine codes group list. I know a good deal of online people and internet marketers that type domain name based Internet marketing strategies for creating backlinks, affiliate stores, etc. I’ve checked all around and these are the best Godaddy coupons available for .com domains, domain renewals or any web development need.