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Compare domain prices across 44 registrars for any of 3,431 extensions — registration, renewal and transfer side by side, so a low first-year price never hides what the renewal will cost.
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The cheapest domain names by extension — the lowest first-year registration price found among 44 registrars, updated every day. Open any extension for its renewal rate, which is where the real difference shows.
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The questions readers bring most often — which extensions are the most popular, where .com is cheapest, and how to move a domain — each answered on its own page.
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Registration and renewal prices for .com from every registrar we track, ranked from the lowest, with the renewal shown beside the first-year rate.
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A domain is registered for a fixed term and renewed, so the number that matters is not the first-year price but what the second year costs. The cheapest .com registration on the site is $6.99, and that same registrar renews the name at $14.25. Across every registrar tracked, .com registration runs from $6.99 to $25.06 — a spread of 3.6 times. This page explains how to read those two numbers together, shows where to compare them, and links to the page that answers the specific extension or registrar question in full.
The first year is a promotion; the renewal is the price
A heavy first-year discount is the standard way registrars compete, and it says very little about what holding the name costs. Internet.bs lists .com at $6.99 for the first year and $14.25 at renewal — 2 times the entry price. That pattern is not confined to .com. .shop registers for $0.88 in year one and renews at $29.89, a multiple of 34. Across five years at those lowest prices, the cheap-entry extension totals $120.44, while .com at the cheapest registrar totals $63.99. The practical move is to read the registration price and the renewal price on the same row before deciding anything. Every extension page shows both, and each can be sorted by registration price, renewal price, transfer price, or five- and ten-year total cost, so the longer view is available without arithmetic. .com and .net are good places to see the spread in practice.
Some registrars charge the same rate every year
Not every registrar plays the discount game. Registrars that renew .com at the price they charge to register it — 5 at the last count — include Cloudflare, Dynadot and NameBright, and the lowest .com price across that group is $10.46. Over five years that comes to $52.30; compare it with $63.99 at the registrar with the cheapest first year. This is why a flat renewal rate is often worth more than a headline discount. It also makes budgeting simpler: whatever is paid in year one is paid again in year two and beyond, with no step change to plan around. Any of them is worth comparing directly, and the comparison tool puts up to five registrars side by side on one screen.
What registration actually is, and what this site does
Registering a domain is a lease for a fixed term, usually one year, renewable for as long as it is kept current. It is never bought outright, which is why the renewal price is the real cost and why a lapsed renewal returns the name to the pool. That single fact reorganises how the numbers on this site should be read. This is an independent comparison and information site. It does not sell or register domains — any registration is completed on the registrar's own website, and the prices here are comparison data refreshed daily by a scheduled job, not a live checkout quote. Some outbound links are affiliate links, disclosed in the footer. Prices can be browsed two ways: by extension, with a page per extension, and by registrar, with a page per registrar. The extension directory lists every extension with prices; the registrar directory lists every registrar. For a single extension across every registrar, price search is the faster route.
Six tools for the questions prices cannot answer
Pricing tells you what a name costs. It does not tell you whether the name is free, who currently holds it, or whether it is carrying problems. Six free tools cover that ground, and none of them requires an account. The bulk availability checker checks up to 100 names at once. WHOIS lookup shows who holds a name and when it expires. DNS lookup shows where a name currently points, and domain age checker shows how long it has been registered. SSL checker reports who issued a certificate and when it expires; IP lookup locates an address and identifies its operator. All six sit on the tools page. For the reasoning behind the numbers — moving a domain between registrars, WHOIS privacy, choosing between extensions, how DNS works, and how to pick a registrar — the guides cover those five subjects and stop there.
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