Name.com finally decide to stop losing money?

[Dean]

Just seen name.com now have increased their .com price to $6.99 when using coupon instead of $5.99. At 5.99 they were losing money since com price they paid was around 6.50 and now the .com price they pay is around the 7$ mark and they are selling at around that price now so they are at least breaking even on that front even though they have other costs. They must receive money from Google for the Google Apps integration surely? Or are they doing something dodgy? I understand the selling domains for a loss thing was in order to get customers but now that they have a lot of customers they have just put their prices at a rate where they still wouldnt be making profit due to other costs they have.

 

[sashas]

I guess they make money offering services like privacy, url forwarding, hosting, etc. This is the reason why you see so many offers for services before you checkout names from GoDaddy.

While most domainers don't use these services, many end users do. I think their target users were end users, but after domainers started using them a bit too heavily, they had to increase prices to make a profit from the domain registration alone

 

[weblord]

another source of income might be this one
http://www.name.com/expired_domains.php

 

[Dean]

I guess they make money offering services like privacy, url forwarding, hosting, etc. This is the reason why you see so many offers for services before you checkout names from GoDaddy.

While most domainers don't use these services, many end users do. I think their target users were end users, but after domainers started using them a bit too heavily, they had to increase prices to make a profit from the domain registration alone

They offer privacy and URL forwarding for free, they dont offer hosting. Have you even used name.com before?

another source of income might be this one
http://www.name.com/expired_domains.php

Yes, that might be one but still cant see them making much of a profit from this.

 

[Charley]

These guys have really good service, with the pricing.

 

[tricolorro]

I guess they make money offering services like privacy, url forwarding, hosting, etc. This is the reason why you see so many offers for services before you checkout names from GoDaddy.

While most domainers don't use these services, many end users do. I think their target users were end users, but after domainers started using them a bit too heavily, they had to increase prices to make a profit from the domain registration alone

" but after domainers started using them a bit too heavily..."

Hi sashas,

If that were true, it could have easily been corrected by limiting
the number of domains you could register at that $5.99 price.

Remember also that they were offering the same price for Transfers
and Renewals.

Name.com was new.

I suspect they were offering low prices to quickly build a customer
and domain portfolio base.

And they are most likely receiving some $ from Google for offering
Google Apps which helps offset the discounts.

Patrick

 

[Dean]

" but after domainers started using them a bit too heavily..."

Hi sashas,

If that were true, it could have easily been corrected by limiting
the number of domains you could register at that $5.99 price.

Remember also that they were offering the same price for Transfers
and Renewals.

Name.com was new.

I suspect they were offering low prices to quickly build a customer
and domain portfolio base.

And they are most likely receiving some $ from Google for offering
Google Apps which helps offset the discounts.

Patrick

They were not offering same price for transfers, not sure about renewals. Transfers were like $8. Doesn't really make sense to me why they would have transfers so much more expensive when trying to get new customers.

 

[tricolorro]

They were not offering same price for transfers, not sure about renewals. Transfers were like $8. Doesn't really make sense to me why they would have transfers so much more expensive when trying to get new customers.

:hi:

Actually for quite some time transfers were $5.99.

Then it did change to the higher price as you point out.

I transferred many domains at the $5.99 price.

Patrick

 

[Dean]

:hi:

Actually for quite some time transfers were $5.99.

Then it did change to the higher price as you point out.

I transferred many domains at the $5.99 price.

Patrick

Lucky you, when I tried a few months ago it was at 8$

 

[lilpooh]

I think throwing price at $5.99 was just part of the marketing cost for building the brand name and attracts new registrations.