Select customers who turn on auto renew by July 11 get a free one year renewal.
Google Domains, Google’s newish domain name registration service, is renewing domain names for free.
The company sent an email to some of its customers today, offering to renew their domain names free for a year if they turn on auto renew.
The offer only applies to domain names registered before June 21, so you can’t register domain names today and get two years for one. However, for domains registered prior to that date, all customers have to do is turn on auto renew by July 11.
When the domains renew, customers will be billed for the full renewal price, but they’ll receive a refund within 2-3 weeks.
The fine print: only Google Domains customers who received an email with the offer get the free renewal. My guess is it was only sent to people who registered domain names and haven’t activated auto renew yet.
I should note that I only have one .com domain registered with Google Domains, so it’s possible the offer was targeted to people with few domains, and it might be limited to certain top level domain names.
The deal is good for customers, and it’s also good for the registries that will get higher renewal rates.
John says
GoDaddy should pay serious attention to Google Domains. For GoDaddy this is war-for Google it’s practice.
Mike says
Interesting strategy from Google, quite Google style. I don’t have any domains registered on Google Domains.
999names.com says
Google is called the big G for a reason.
Dean says
A few months ago I transfer 22 domains to Google (from Godaddy) and was SO HAPPY to get the FREE notice from Google! I can’t stand Godaddy’s confusing customer portal, and crazy schemes when trying to buy, and renew products. I needed a solid business professional partner and Google Domains is doing it right.
Andrew Allemann says
22 renewals for free? Not bad. Did you have auto renew turned on for any of them before getting the notice?
Nicholas Maietta says
I know how you feel, just got refunded for 31 of mine! Feels like winning the lottery doesn’t it?
tajuk.net says
i think this is the new google expansion plans..
Nicholas Maietta says
I own roughly 60 domains. I transferred more than half of them to Google Domains after i received my invite to the service. I didn’t have auto-renew turned on on most of them.
Tonight i looked at my Domains account and saw that i’ve been refunded for 31 of my domains. 🙂
I checked my bank accounts associated with my Visa Debit cards and the refunds haven’t showed up yet, but after talking with a support rep via their chat service, then requested a call from them, i was able to ascertain that it takes up to 2 weeks to receive those refunds. $360 is a lot of refund for something i already enjoyed using!
I feel like i hit a little lottery!
Aryan says
Can google domain renewed from any other country than from US ?