[ikk157]

I'm wondering whether any one else has experienced the same recently?  Today when I checked on one of my domains that has a renewal date later in the month, I noticed that the renewal charge was just 3$ I couldn't believe it. I expected something in the order of between 8$-10. It's not a TLD - it has an extension of .review, but still.  For me Namecheap always hits a person hard with renewals, like it's always more expensive.  Anyway, so instead of 1 year I decided to renew it for 3 years and felt I got a great deal for the day.  

Wonder whether there are more good deals at Namecheap.  Like just when I was considering changing to another Registrar, maybe Namecheap has woken up that it's got more expensive than other Registrars?  

Just checked and these are the latest promos on offer at Namecheap.  I just noticed they're now into VPN as well.  Wonder how good it would be.
https://www.namecheap.com/promos/

I’ve always found that porkbun is the cheapest of all registrars when it comes to all costs.

For example, renewing a .review at porkbun costs $2.74, while you paid $3 at namecheap. Now the difference is only a few cents for .review, HOWEVER, the difference tends to be huge with other name endings.

For example, for the .com I recently got at porkbun, the first year price was half of that of other registrars (i do not remember the exact values).

Same goes with the renewal fees, it was a hell of a lot cheaper at porkbun than it was anywhere else. (Again, I do not remember the exact values).

So did you get a deal? The simple answer is no, you did not.