[deanhills]

I'm just wondering whether members here who have a large number of domains know of registrars who have either specials for renewal rates or lower cost renewal rates.

Last night I was truly irritated with my Domain Registrar Namecheap.  I received a notification from Namecheap last night where they say I was on Automatic Renewal for X domain and that on 25 July they would be taking the renewal funds from my card.  You wouldn't believe it - they said the renewal rate was 27 US$ for a name.review non-TLD domain. I think Namecheap is slightly cheeky at the domain registration stage to slip in auto renewal - like it was probably ticked somewhere and I missed it initially.  I then last night disabled auto renewal for all of my domains.  Not that it would have been a problem for me as I don't have any of my Visa Cards connected - I only work with PayPal.

Anyway, 27 US$ was much too much.  While I was checking through my domains I decided to renew some of them and then got a surprise.  The renewal price of 27 US$ got discounted to 14.20 US$ for the TLDs and 10US$ for the non-TLDs.  That was last night.  So this morning when I checked some more the rate had all of a sudden changed again.  No mention of 27 US$, just straight 15 US$ renewal for all domains.  Feels as though someone was playing behind the scenes. 

I also checked for coupons for renewal of Namecheap domains, but none to be found. 

Are there any other Registrars who have cheaper renewal rates?  Or at least some discount coupons?

[youssefbasha]

Iam preferring 1and1.com because they are selling cheap domains

[Vuluts]

@deanhills AFAIK that depends on the TLDs, renewal price differs from other TLDs, so may we ask what TLD you want to buy?

[Littlemaster]

Right now namecheap is in hands of some crazy owner, they were best but not now, you may check with bigrock and transfer the domain before it expires.

[deanhills]

I'm OK with Namecheap for getting new domains. Everything works well with Namecheap. My problem is only with renewal of domains. Something is not so good there at Namecheap so maybe @Littlemaster explained why - crazy new owner. If I can find another good registrar that offers better renewal rates, or at least a promotion coupon for renewal of domains, then I'll definitely start transferring my domains out.

@Littlemaster - do you know where the previous owner of Namecheap went to? For now I'll check out bigrock, and see how it goes when I renew a domain.

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Just done a little research about owner of Namecheap. No mention of a new owner, but this is what came up:

https://www.namecheap.com/about/team.aspx

[Littlemaster]

This lady was the best at her form before few years ago.
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/author/tamar/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarweinberg/
https://twitter.com/tamar
May be I am wrong about change of owner, this lady is missing. She was great with customers. Her absence can be seen in namecheap functions.
You can see about her efforts in https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamarweinber...ce-section
All said things are facts, I sometimes felt this lady has no sleep. She kept talking with customers over twitter and other social medias from namecheap handle.
http://thebrandjournalismadvantage.com/t...n-the-map/

[deanhills]

@Littlemaster Thank you for all of the links. Possibly that is exactly what happened. I think during 2019 when I renew domains I'm going to go radically different. Time for a change. May even go back to Freenom. This morning when I had to change name servers at a host, two were dot.tk domains and two Namecheap domains. DNS of the dot.tk domains propagated much faster than for the Namecheap domains. Maybe Freenom isn't a bad bet either. Think I'll check the paid version of Freenom out as well.

[xdude]

Well I'm with Godaddy and NameSilo. But in process of moving everything to NameSilo from Godaddy since their renewal prices are better. Not a lot but it matters when you have 50-100 domain names. Some of those no-TLDs can be very costly after initial promo prices. Which one is yours ?

Yes. Auto-renew has some downsides too like it could cost high than u do manually where if u get lucky u can find a promo code or something.

[deanhills]

Well I'm with Godaddy and NameSilo. But in process of  moving everything to NameSilo from Godaddy since their renewal prices are better. Not a lot but it matters when you have 50-100 domain names. Some of those no-TLDs can be very costly after initial promo prices. Which one is yours  ?

Yes. Auto-renew has some downsides too like it could cost high than u do manually where if u get lucky u can find a promo code or something.

Thanks for mentioning Name Silo @xdude.  I'd forgotten about them - I've got one domain with Name Silo I'm planning to drop during 2019, however if the renewal prices are good I may then move some of my Namecheap domains to Name Silo.

[xdude]

So for I have found their renewal prices are good for almost all TLDs and none-TLDs except few not so popular none TLDS. Also if you Deposit 50 then you can get more discounts for domains like from Godaddy Discount club,