How good is NameSilo?

[nixgurus]

Hello Guys,

I want to know about namesilo. How good they are? Any disadvantage having domains with them?

Currently I am using Godaddy, Name.com and namecheap

 

[alcy]

Is there still something not working or any issue you're experiencing? If so, pls let us know and we'll work to resolve it asap. Apologies for any inconveniences caused.


Perfect - thank you for confirming. If you experience any more trouble related to Afternic emails, pls let us know and our devs will prioritize a fix.

In terms of your feature request - thanks for detailing it out. We have passed this along to our product team to investigate further and work on developing it.

nothing specific. your ui is slow and not friendly. you are nowhere near top on price ranking sites for any all tlds... til u strive for top u and many others remain just that... good but not good.enuf to get picked by most.

 

[carob]

May I suggest one related change though. Please add an opportunity to delete existing afternic listings. Dyna has it, Porkbun has it, Namesilo doesn't. Why this matters? Live example. I decided to remove the domain from afternic. Deleted it on afternic end. Later, changed my mind. Added it back again. Afternic says it has no fast transfer. Yeah, this is correct, as it is technially another listing (another internal numer). Namesilo system is of different opinion, as the domain still has afternic fast transfer auth @ my account. So, there was no email for me to approve, why approve it twice?

Thanks for that, I think I may have experienced exactly that.

My opinion of Namesilo is high and I am glad they are working on fixes, I had assumed probs to be largely a feature of the Afternic bugfest.

This really does need to work smoothly and reliably, it is not a good use of time to have to keep going back to check if Fast Transfer has been enabled and then prompt Afternic to attempt it again. And meantime sales may be being lost.

Off-topic but relevant: Afternic has no bulk delete function, yet, afaik.

 

[namesilo]

nothing specific. your ui is slow and not friendly. you are nowhere near top on price ranking sites for any all tlds... til u strive for top u and many others remain just that... good but not good.enuf to get picked by most.

Sorry to hear that we haven't met your expectations, though we will continue to do our best to regain your patronage. We are currently working to improve the speed and user-friendliness of our site. In terms of price, our .COM regs can be as low as $9.35 for our largest customers. This is available to all our customers who have 5,000+ active domains and are enrolled in our Discount Program. As far as we're aware of publicly, this is the lowest price amongst the largest registrars out there without straight up losing money on every registration. We have also launched a couple of other services aimed at improving the lives of domain investors - Catch.Club to help you backorder domains and NameLot.com to help you buy and sell your domain portfolios.

 

[tonyk2000]

our .COM regs can be as low as $9.35 for our largest customers

New regs and renewals - yes, but why not transfers? I'm on discount program, paying $9.55 for .com renewals, but the system charges $9.95 for .com transfer-ins at the same time. Is it by design (not too logical imo, one would better transfer elsewhere) or you simply missed this in the config?

 

[Future Sensors]

In terms of price, our .COM regs can be as low as $9.35 for our largest customers. This is available to all our customers who have 5,000+ active domains and are enrolled in our Discount Program. As far as we're aware of publicly, this is the lowest price amongst the largest registrars out there without straight up losing money on every registration.

Porkbun ACH pricing for .com is even lower at $9.22. This is including $0.18 ICANN fee, and available to even the smallest portfolio holders, like 1 domain. No minimum number of active domains is required.

 

[Future Sensors]

@namesilo

Strange that Porkbun is not listed in your comparison at https://www.namesilo.com/pricing

Transparency means that you should also compare with registrars that provide way lower pricing. Especially on a page titled "Best Domain Prices".

 

[namesilo]

New regs and renewals - yes, but why not transfers? I'm on discount program, paying $9.55 for .com renewals, but the system charges $9.95 for .com transfer-ins at the same time. Is it by design (not too logical imo, one would better transfer elsewhere) or you simply missed this in the config?

The reason is because transfers are not a part of the Discount Program. We re-looked into potentially changing this, but that also meant that we would need to charge higher for new user transfers, which ultimately, didn't make sense. Tell you what though, as a 'thank you' to you and all our other long-time customers, we can run a week long .COM transfer promo at $9.35 (our best DP tier price). We can start it mid next week to give you guys some time to prepare. Does that sound good?

Porkbun ACH pricing for .com is even lower at $9.22. This is including $0.18 ICANN fee, and available to even the smallest portfolio holders, like 1 domain. No minimum number of active domains is required.

From what we can see, Porkbun charges $9.73 for .COM on their website. Unfortunately, we cannot know what special prices are offered or what requirements those prices entail. On our end, we try to keep our prices low while maintaining quality service and 24/7 support. We are also working on developing new products and improvements to our existing platform.

 

[Future Sensors]

From what we can see, Porkbun charges $9.73 for .COM on their website. Unfortunately, we cannot know what special prices are offered or what requirements those prices entail.

The regular @Porkbun price for .com ($9.73) is not a promotion. No matter how many domains you register, or have active in your account. Combined with ACH funding it's $9.22, also not a promotion. Your regular NameSilo price for .com is $10.95.

All I want to say is that you have made a "comparison" on your website that very selectively works out in your favor. You're certainly not cheap with .com registrations.

 

[tonyk2000]

The reason is because transfers are not a part of the Discount Program. We re-looked into potentially changing this, but that also meant that we would need to charge higher for new user transfers, which ultimately, didn't make sense. Tell you what though, as a 'thank you' to you and all our other long-time customers, we can run a week long .COM transfer promo at $9.35 (our best DP tier price). We can start it mid next week to give you guys some time to prepare. Does that sound good?

Yeah, it was always the case. With the exception that transfer-in price was always discounted, regardless of number of domains @ account. This scheme, for example, allowed me to consolidate a lot of domains @ namesilo some years ago, and in fact I paid less for transfers and paid more for the renewals even on discount program I was eligible for according to total number of domains. OK, namesilo no more wants to provide discounted transfer-ins like it did before. I still think that the outcome is illogical - with all other registrars offering bulk pricing I am paying the same amount for all equally-priced registry services, be it new reg, transfer or renewal.

As for the weekly promo, my transfer-in needs are not bulk anymore. I already have a good number of domains @ namesilo. Routine transfer-ins? OK, maybe a few which were acquired ~2 months ago after drops and are now eligible for transfer-ins. WIll I transfer these few to namesilo during $9.35 promo week? Yeah, probably. Will I transfer more domains to namesilo another week, paying $9.95? In this case I will need to select between this price, and Dynadot superbulk $9.57, or above-mentioned Porkbun, or GoDaddys "discount club"...

 

[Janoss]

I have to agree, the regular prices are not great especially for renewals. NameSilo starts to have competitive prices when one has 2500 or 5000 domains in their account but that is not a very attractive option. Promotions are nice but NameSilo needs to become more competitive in their regular pricing without such requirements or at least lowering the requirements.

 

[tonyk2000]

Will I transfer more domains to namesilo another week, paying $9.95? In this case I will need to select between this price, and Dynadot superbulk $9.57, or above-mentioned Porkbun, or GoDaddys "discount club"...

Long story short, I like NameSilo, but NameSilo should better think about specific domainers needs. In above mentioned example, not only NameSilo discourages us from routinely transferring-in more domains (by offering increased transfer-in price). There is one more issue. In com/net case, registrars have a right (not obligation!) to apply 60 days lock on such transfer-ins. NameSilo opts to lock such domains for 60 days. Competing registrars (dyna, porkbun) don't. So, if a domainer elects to transfer his com/net to NameSilo, not only he will pay increased price [vs. his new reg or renewal rate @ the same namesilo], but he may also be prevented from freely selling the domain within 60 days (what if the buyer wants authcode and does not want internal push?)