Domain discount club questions

[DotCom9]

Hi Guys,

Couple of questions related to the club if you could answer -

1). If I join the club and find a cheaper price coupon, can I still use the coupon already being in the club?
2). List price vs sale price - For example, .mobi shows as 12.99 where as sale price shows up as 9.99. Which one would I be billed?

Thanks

 

[FreddyJoe]

... I transfer all my domains out of GoDaddy as soon as the 60day hold has expired....

Hi Stub,

Who do you use? Would you recommend any registrars? With the latest GoDaddy price increase, I am looking to move my domains somewhere with good prices -- somewhere that does not waste my time searching for coupons.

Thanks!

 

[Name Trader]

What GoDaddy price increase?

After a very exhaustive evaluation of all the top (and not so top) registrars, and because my spend is over $5000/yr, I chose Dynadot which provides .com @ $8.50 including free privacy at that rate. Even if you are not at that rate of spend, if you prepay only $500 (or have spent over $500/yr), you get .com @ $8.75 and an extra $2 for privacy, if you want it. But you can always build your own privacy if you must have it.

Close contenders were Name @ $8.79 and NameSilo @ $8.89 (highest rate. incremental discounts the more domains you have)

The cheapest was NameBright @ $8.03 (cost, but you pay a small % to top-up your account). They were also considered but didn't make the cut to the last three. I wasn't comfortable with using them because they are owned by a competing drop-catcher, and they didn't have a full suite of tlds, so some of my domains would have to have been at another registrar (which could be good or bad. I took as a negative). It wasn't all negative. They had some plus points too.

All these registrars have excellent control panels. Probably Dynadot's had a higher learning curve than the others. But it is far from insurmountable. I never look for promo codes, although Dynadot has relevant coupons sometimes, ie .tv. The best control panel I thought was NameSilo's.

 

[FreddyJoe]

What GoDaddy price increase?

The price increase for the Domain Discount Club. For my volume of domains (at $120/year), it adds about $1.50 per domain, so it makes the effective price of a dot com $9.79 plus ICANN fee.

Thanks for all the leads! I will check them out!

 

[Name Trader]

@FreddyJoe - How many domains do you have? All .com? Do you ever participate in the GoDaddy Expiring Auctions? I had this dilemma. My Domains were at another registrar. So if no DDC membership, you get charged full retail price for the renewal of every won domain. And I could never find a coupon that worked to reduce that cost. People here say there are lots of coupons to reduce this cost. But I never found any. So it was better for me to renew my DDC membership, which had expired. I purchase sufficient Expiring Domains in a month to still justify maintaining my DDC membership. Even at the 33.3% price increase.

Incidentally.I asked my account manager if there were any discounts on renewals (every year he's given me a discount). But it was an emphatic, no. So it might be good to hear from people who have successfully used a coupon to buy DDC membership, and what that coupon is

 

[forge]

I received the same email. I think it is time to pack up and move on. I am considering moving all of my domains away from Godaddy. Too many hassles with coupon codes without having GGD, and now them increasing it to double what I have been paying it is not worth it. Godaddy has become too commercialized.

I hear ya. But why didn't I get that email?

The one big thing about GoDaddy, I'm smitten by their control panel. I think it's genius. Once you get used to it.

 

[Name Trader]

@forge - I agree with you. Control Panel is great. It's their Policies which suck the most, which is why I don't use them as a registrar. Not domainer friendly.

 

[SpareDomains]

Think I originally joined the discount club around the $56-$58 mark with a coupon. Now with the price increase I can turn the $119.88 into the $80 range. Discount club adds around .15 per domain for me based on how many I have there now so $8.47+.15=$8.62 out the door. I'll be staying based on that number. Would only move in the future if they jack the price again or if I reduce my inventory to where the club is costing more than someone else was offering without the club that I felt safe with.