Spaceship
renews below its own cost of goods, which cannot last
the cheapest .com renewal we could verify anywhere, priced below what the registry charges for it — a loss leader with a visible expiry date.
Spaceship renews a .com for $9.98 plus a $0.20 icann fee. verisign charges $10.26 for the same domain. the arithmetic is not complicated: it is selling below cost, by 28 cents a renewal, deliberately.
it is also the most honest pricing page in the ranking, and those two facts are related. it is the only registrar here that itemises the icann fee as its own line — $0.20/year, printed next to register, renew and transfer — which is how we independently confirmed a figure we had otherwise taken from icann's own schedule. a page that shows you the fee it is obliged to collect is a page that is not hiding the rest.
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
- $9.98 / year renewal, plus $0.20 icann
- website
- spaceship.com
the cheapest .com renewal we could verify anywhere, priced below what the registry charges for it — a loss leader with a visible expiry date.
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.