[ikk157]

Well, it's not a bad offer especially from a trusted provider like Yahoo. Just that a payment method is required to avail the offer, but that's okay, since as a matter of fact, this offer from Yahoo isn't the first time. This campaign had been run before too, years ago and was a huge success.

@ikk157 Well, not that true. Most of the bug registrars if not all give you a FREE renewal for a year if you transfer to them. Agreed that transfer fee does apply, but IMO that's better than letting the domain expire and re-registering since it doesn't become available instantly after it's expiry. And again what you say applies for personal domains with which you're okay if it's not available for a few days, you would of course not do that with a production website even if it's your personal blog, which would ideally get a fairly good number of visitors.

I never knew transferring the domain yields you a free year apart from the transfer fee. From what I can remember (I may have forgotten) they charge you a little under their usual renewal fee. Unless the transfer fee you’re talking about is what i saw. If that’s the case, then it doesn’t matter what they call it, it’s still cheaper to get a first year price elsewhere.

As for having several days of downtime, doubt that’ll happen. You can re-register it as soon as it expires... you don’t have to unnecessarily wait a few days before re-registering it. Unless your previous registrar purposely hogs the domain to make it harder for you to re-register it elsewhere (that would be one hell of a scammy move in my opinion).

But honestly if you’re running anything commercial, domain pricing is most likely the least of your concerns.