It no longer costs an arm and a leg to register a domain at Register.com. Just an arm.
Register.com has teased customers over the past month with emails saying that change was coming. Today, that change dropped.
On the front end, the biggest thing you’ll notice is an upgraded color scheme. But Register.com promises that its platform has been redone under the hood.
In an email to customers, Register.com also says that it has revised its prices on the most popular domains. Indeed, both Register.com and Web.com’s other major register, Network Solutions, appear to have dropped their prices on .com domains.
You can now register a .com domain for an industry-leading $25/year. By industry-leading, I mean the highest price possible.
It also appears that this price is promotional for one or two years. I don’t have any domains at Register.com to test, but at Network Solutions, it seems that .com domains renew for $37.99. (I should note that this price is higher than the site’s official price list.)
One under-the-hood experience that I doubt has changed is how the company issues authorization codes to transfer domains. It appears to take a few days still to get these codes.
I believe the expression you are looking for is – Putting lipstick on a Pig
Give me just one reason to use register.com.
Or netsol.
Just one thing that makes them special, or some feature that is not available elsewhere.
There is none.
Some registrars have clients, others have hostages.
Strange how things changed. Those 2 names used to be the main ones a longtime ago, those and then BulkRegister I recall
Things can change a lot in 20 years. What is surprising is how little those two registrars have changed.
They remind me of Geocities.
NetSol just today sent out an email with specials. 8.99 for .com until June 1, 2020.
Let’s see… make customer service impossible. Check! Demonstrate lack of regard for your registrar clients across the board. Check! Dilute your brand with no real management interest other than playing shareholder games. Check! Tank your company into the ground. Check! Initiate share buyback programs post demoralizing investors by removing any possible expectation of return. Check! Hurt your partners, those who cared about you, and crush some staff dreams. Check! Try to sell Register.com at Namescon even with your own internal bid adjustment capabilities and fail. Check! Get rid of DB who was already compartmentalized and contained to avoid liability for shell games. Check! Get new funding sources. Check! Hire new people. Check!
Sum total of new innovation: $25 a year .com name.
You are lucky I am not really taking the gloves off here. Your actions and choices and those you have elected to borrow from and effectively leave behind do not paint the picture of those who care about others.
If your greatest innovation so far is stuffing hundreds of thousands of accounts with .xyz names, so they can get an artificial pad and tell everyone they are the leading gTLD in the world, maybe you both belong together in the same place now. As a footnote in history.