Namecheap
$10.98 to join, $18.48 to stay
a $7.50 step up at renewal from a company whose own sibling brand sells the identical domain for $9.98.
the first year is $10.98, which is a sale price off a $14.98 standing rate. the renewal is $18.48, and unlike the registration row it carries no sale, no promotion and no discount tier — it is simply the price. the gap is $7.50 and the margin is $8.02, meaning roughly 43% of what you pay each year is markup on a product that costs $10.46.
to its credit the renewal figure is published plainly in the same table as the registration price, which Squarespace and GoDaddy cannot say, and whois privacy is free for life rather than an upsell. the product itself is fine and the dashboard is better than most.
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
- $18.48 / year renewal
- website
- namecheap.com
a $7.50 step up at renewal from a company whose own sibling brand sells the identical domain for $9.98.
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.