[deanhills]

Does it happens like when you ever renew a domain on namecheap the renewal is usually high?

I find the renewal for dot.net compared with the purchase of the domain usually much higher.  Like with my dot.nets it's rare that there is a good opportunity for more than one year at a time.  But who knows, for my .review lower level domains maybe the renewal could have been $5 before, but then at $3 it's still a good deal. I still feel like ankle clicking.

@ikk157  I still want to try porkbun.  I've heard really great reports about them.  

I notice that Namecheap currently has specials on .com around $8.  But for dot.net a new domain seems to be around 12$ as a special.  With renewals I've been paying around 14$ for the dot.net renewals - they've been creeping up and up.  Funnily enough I don't own any dot.coms right now.  Maybe they're not as popular as they used to be so that's why one can get cheap deals.  I also notice Namecheap has cheap deals with .co although .co has never appealed to me - looks like a chopped off .com to me     I have 6 dot.nets.  3 .review type lower level domains.  And the 3 free dot.tk I've managed to renew for a few years now.  The dot.tk ones have become almost nostalgic, but ironically for Freenom's not so good reputation, my experience has been very positive, including the technical Freenom registrar site and DNS that propagates almost immediately.  Now and then there's a hick up like I have lost the odd domain arbitrarily from Freenom, but for being free for my more experimental type Websites that don't generate any traffic I like Freenom.

I feel quite proud of myself.  I used to have about 25 or more domains, and over the last 2 years have managed to reduce the number to 12 - including 3 free domains from dot.tk. For me it was difficult to do as I really cling to the domains - took lots of self-discipline. Let's see whether I can let go of some more.