[xdude]

It's quite hard to find domain names for cheap every since Godaddy stopped issuing their promo codes. But still there are good promo prices offers for various extensions by reputed registrars. I think it's good to have a thread for keeping list of these promos and post updates about new domain regitrations /transfer / renewal promos
Here's the Lastest NameCheap registration promo.
You can register  extensions, .bid , .trade, .webcam, .party, .science, .cricket, .faith, .date, .review, .accountant, .download, .racing, .win, .men, .stream for only  45 cents usd. You can register for 5 years for just 5.50 usd + 0.18x5. last one is ICCAN mandate fee.
.online, .club, .xyz for 99 cents.
.us 88 cent usd

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[deanhills]

What I have against Namecheap - particularly off late is that those promos come at the expense of pricey renewal rates. I'd rather pay a little more and know that the renewal rate will be more or less the same - such as one can find at Name Silo (for now), than get a great promo, and then having to renew at a steep price.

Mind you, one could probably transfer the Namecheap domain to Name Silo. Name Silo has a special where the transfer fee is directly applied for an additional year that they add to your domain. So yes, maybe that would work. Just hard work though.

[xdude]

@deanhills

What I found temping is those first batch of extensions come with one time pay 5 year renewal. So the total cost for next 5 years is 6.50 usd and they won't able to bother u for long long period of time. 5 years is a long time to decide if the domain is valuable to you or not. For people like me it's a perfect opportunity for my line of work.

At NameSilo do they take 2 years renewal for a transfer ? Technically there isn't a real domain transfer fee at any registrar. What they take as transfer fee is renewal for next year. They can't take 2 years of renewal money unless user allow them to. It should be just 1 year renewal.

[tiwil]

At NameSilo do they take 2 years renewal for a transfer ? Technically there isn't a real domain transfer fee at any registrar. What they take as transfer fee is renewal for next year. They can't take 2 years of renewal money unless user allow them to. It should be just 1 year renewal.

They give 1 year renewal when you transfer to Namesilo. And also their renewal price is very cheap comparing to Namecheap and Godaddy.
https://www.namesilo.com/transfer.php
https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php

[Khadeer143]

namcecheap.com is perfect for domain buyers godaddy only give promocodes on buying first time next time onwards they dont provide promos to any customers

[deanhills]

@deanhills

What I found temping is those first batch of extensions come with one time pay 5 year renewal. So the total cost for next 5 years is 6.50 usd and they won't able to bother u for long long period of time. 5 years is a long time to decide if the domain is valuable to you or not. For people like me it's a perfect opportunity for my line of work.

I was completely unaware of that.  I guess it may then be an idea to drop those domains and get similar named ones for 5 years instead of renewing them.  Definitely will work towards that for next year.

[tryp4vps]

...... I guess it may then be an idea to drop those domains and get similar named ones for 5 years instead of renewing them.  Definitely will work towards that for next year.

Yes you will save a few amount of money on the domain costs. But it will probably waste all your past SEO efforts on the original domains.

I suppose if your websites are making some reasonable profits after 5 years, it is better to renew the original domains accordingly.

[Lampard]

Yes you will save a few amount of money on the domain costs. But it will probably waste all your past SEO efforts on the original domains.

I suppose if your websites are making some reasonable profits after 5 years, it is better to renew the original domains accordingly.

These domains are not worth if you need good ranking on Google. It is very rare to see such domains having a good SEO. It would be good to use them as personal domain name.

[deanhills]

Yes you will save a few amount of money on the domain costs. But it will probably waste all your past SEO efforts on the original domains.

I suppose if your websites are making some reasonable profits after 5 years, it is better to renew the original domains accordingly.

I'm not very seriously minded with SEO - mostly hobby domains and websites.  So don't think it will be a problem for me.  If it were serious though, I'd probably keep it at Namecheap and not fiddle around with the status quo.  I only have a handful of those category domains.  The rest were mostly acquired as a hobby and for fun.

[Vuluts]

@Lampard Indeed correct, it is still best to use TOP TLDS for having a good results in SEO. They offer it for cheap to spread the domain around and get a traffic and once they reach a quote for sure these mostly indemand new extentions will surely increase it's price.