Gandi
$11.00 for the first year, $38.38 for every one after
a 267% markup and the largest first-year-to-renewal gap in the ranking, from a registrar that once had the opposite reputation.
$11.00 gets you in. $38.38 keeps you there. that is a $27.38 gap and a $27.92 margin on a domain that costs $10.46, which is the largest of both in this ranking by a factor of three, and it is the clearest possible illustration of why the renewal price is the only figure worth comparing.
the presentation compounds it. the same tld page shows a $34.54 promotional renewal rate for two-to-nine-year renewals alongside the $38.38 regular price, so a customer doing an ordinary one-year renewal is looking at two numbers and cannot tell from the page which one they will be charged. every registrar above this one manages to publish a single renewal figure.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- domain registrars
- pricing
- $38.38 / year renewal
- website
- gandi.net
a 267% markup and the largest first-year-to-renewal gap in the ranking, from a registrar that once had the opposite reputation.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.