They price their offering a tad on the expensive side. From a cursory search, easydns prices some domains at between 2x and 3x the prices offered by the likes of namecheap.
They're a little pricey for just DNS, which makes me wonder how much they charge for domain registration. It'd be nice if they gave pricing on their web site.
From the looks of it their DNS hosting is $30 per domain (let me know if I am seeing that wrong). As just a small entrepreneur and someone working for a low hourly wage that is a lot of money, especially with the 14 domains I have.
I've heard good things about their service, and would love to try it, but unfortunately it is out of my reach.
It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names.
Namecheap has always been good for me in terms of service and reliability. I only own a few domains but if $15/year was unaffordable I think I'd just let them expire.
> Note that some of these newer TLDs can be more expensive (up to $60/year).
A .com WILL also be expensive, because all the good names and most of the crap ones are either used for other companies or, and that's worse, for squatters who hope to extract five-digits prices.
> Namecheap's retail pricing is not excessive by any means
$12.98 for a .com domain renewal is a 65% upcharge over the $7.85 wholesale rate. That is considerably more expensive than many of Namecheap's competitors.
Also the low cost TLDs on namecheap are such a scam, especially the .host TLD. They are like $1 for first year and 20x or even 100x for the 2nd year onwards. So it's best to check the cost for 5 years before you fall for the $1 trap.
BTW as to your point I totally agree that it should be much cheaper than this. Namecheap at one time had a promotion where they allowed you to register for 10 years for $10 or something. So it's definitely doable and most probably as soft limit by the registrars.
And yet, if you go to GoDaddy, you can find domain names for $1.99, and transfers for $7.99.
With namecheap, they list as $10, but you can get the price even lower and use the code "SOPASucks"*
* Conditions apply.
Conditions also apply.
All of these "conditions apply" kind of makes the point of my argument. For every $8.95 cert offer, there is another offer where you get a free cert by purchasing the domain name, or by transferring from some competitor, or by renewing some existing domain.
It is a true confusopoly. These schemes to extract more money from consumers may be slightly more or less scammy, but ALL domain registrars engage in these practices.
The sad part of it is that in the end, I don't know if I'd be better off being scammed into paying an extra $4/month for some service I'm not using, or being "socially conscious" and paying more to a company that does not pull these tricks, but that can only keep itself in business by charging higher prices.
$15.88 per .com is pretty steep, damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal.
How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
I've had namecheap do some "shenanigans" where a domain will be listed for once price when searching and suddenly jumps up significantly when you try to register it.
So… these aren't accessible without specially configured DNS, right? Given that the point of domains is to let people get to your site, a TLD only accessible after reconfiguring your computer to use a little-known DNS competitor seems worth a hell of a lot less than $19,000.
They price their offering a tad on the expensive side. From a cursory search, easydns prices some domains at between 2x and 3x the prices offered by the likes of namecheap.
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