On Wed, 22 Sep 2016, John Levine wrote:
For domain registration I found that joining the GoDaddy Domain Club ( $120/year or less if you pay ahead for multiple years [1] ) ...
There's a lot of registrars with prepay discounts. Gandi's domains are cheaper if you prepay $600, a lot cheaper if you prepay $2000.
I see the discount, and $600 prepay IS cheaper than Gandi rates with NO prepay. But the other companies are still less expensive even with the Gandi prepay. TLD NearlyFree GoDaddy DDC Gandi B Rates ($600) com $9.34 $10.44 $14.50 org $11.39 $14.14 $16.20 net $10.54 $11.14 $17.00 info $10.69 $12.14 $15.55 name $8.99 $12.14 $14.60 biz $11.19 $14.14 $16.28 Now if you get to $12,000 prepay, you get E Rates, where .com is $8.80 and .net is $11.00. Lower than most, but NearlyFree is still very competitive and even beats Gandi on a few TLDs at E Rates. I'm sure there are more benefits to Gandi over others than just price. I agree with the other poster that other dimensions are also important and valuable: support quality, security, policies, UI, ease of use, communication. Beckman NOTE: All rates quoted are RENEWAL rates, not transfer or new, as of 9/21/16. GoDaddy DDC rates are discounted and adjusted for 56 domains for the DDC fee of $120 per year. More domains == lower prices. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------