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Hover

expensive, flat, and honest about being expensive

$18.99 / year#people-who-will-pay-a-pr

the second-most expensive .com here, and the only expensive one that charges the same price both years.

$18.99 to register, $18.99 to renew. Hover has built its reputation on not running the standard playbook — no teaser year, no bait rate, no cart full of things you did not ask for — and the flat price is the evidence. what you are quoted is what you keep paying.

that is worth something real. the entire problem this ranking documents is the gap between the advertised price and the actual one, and Hover simply does not have that gap. a buyer who picks Hover knows their renewal cost for the life of the domain on day one, which is not true of Namecheap or Gandi.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

pricing
$18.99 / year
website
hover.com
our verdict

the second-most expensive .com here, and the only expensive one that charges the same price both years.

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.

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