On Wed, 22 Sep 2016, John Levine wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club
( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ...
There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains
are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
I see the discount, and $600 prepay IS cheaper than Gandi rates with NO
prepay. But the other companies are still less expensive even with the
Gandi prepay.
TLD NearlyFree GoDaddy DDC Gandi B Rates ($600)
com $9.34 $10.44 $14.50
org $11.39 $14.14 $16.20
net $10.54 $11.14 $17.00
info $10.69 $12.14 $15.55
name $8.99 $12.14 $14.60
biz $11.19 $14.14 $16.28
Now if you get to $12,000 prepay, you get E Rates, where .com is $8.80 and
.net is $11.00. Lower than most, but NearlyFree is still very competitive
and even beats Gandi on a few TLDs at E Rates.
I'm sure there are more benefits to Gandi over others than just price.
I agree with the other poster that other dimensions are also important and
valuable: support quality, security, policies, UI, ease of use,
communication.
Beckman
NOTE: All rates quoted are RENEWAL rates, not transfer or new, as of
9/21/16. GoDaddy DDC rates are discounted and adjusted for 56 domains for
the DDC fee of $120 per year. More domains == lower prices.
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