Domain Name renewal - costs!

if you mean purely for domain registration (no web/mail hosting) you're paying double the going rate ... AWS about 9 dollars+vat/year

or £10/year (no vat) for domains.google.com

There is no point quoting all these prices without knowing which top level domains they're in (.com, .uk, .whatever). The price of domains can vary from .shop (for $0.49) to .hoteles (for $68250.67), according to:

Theo

Thanks for the responses so far.

Cheers

Dave R

.uk domains ought to be fairly cheap, anything administered by ICANN (e.g. .com) tend to be more expensive. When I first leased jretrading.com it was £17.50 p.a., when a .co.uk was £5 p.a. both through the same UK domain host. I also have my surname as a .com (yes, I know I shouldn't) as my wife was complaining about giving her email address to friends, when it was jretradingltd.demon.co.uk.

The Bishop of Brentwood ordered his staff to change ISP when he found the domain ended in .demon.co.uk...

google prices are the same for most TLDs - although note that there are some they don't sell at all.

In message snipped-for-privacy@jrenewsid.jretrading.com>, Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com writes

Ha! Following the demise of .demon my Namesco account begins with treble

Chaning domains is a devil of a job! :-)

My audiologist din't think that my demon address was totally appropriate. I suggested to her that those with virgin as their ISP didn't imply anything either.

I've just received a renewal notice for a .org.uk domain at just over £7/year. Have a look at

plus VAT, but still marginally cheaper than amazon or google

The grapevine suggests that costs rise when interest in a particular domain name or range of names is high. Maybe somebody wants that domain and is willing to pay more for it than you are. Brian

I recall there were some so-called domain search engines that would automatically register names that you searched, so you had to buy from them at inflated prices. Presumably they had negotiated discounts for bulk registration so it cost little to register all the domains.

They probably still exist. Either use a well-known hosting company for your enquiry (e.g. TSOhosts or GoDaddy) or use whois, either from the Linux command line (Windows doesn't have it) or a major whois website e.g.

Not so sure that "domain tasting" still exists, the bulk registrars could register domains for a few days, then cancel them without having to pay, during that time they could stick it on a server, see how much traffic it got, decide to bin it or buy it hoping to sell the good ones ...

Apparently it does still exist, but there is a small fee for the tasting period, so it's way down on what it used to be, also google watch out for it and drop tasted domains down the ranking ...