SAV.com - $5.95 .com Registrations

[DaveX]

I haven't used them yet but I noticed they have .com for $5.95 and are icann accredited.

I noticed another member has been registering names with them.

Anyone have feedback about them?

@twiki Can you share your experience so far?

 

[tonyk2000]

A new domaining friendly registrar is always welcome And, in fact, needed. Really needed. Who are sav.com ? I mean from inside point of view (management, team, history...). NameKing if I am not mistaken has or had some connections with an old DomainSponsor - which at least means that they are or were experienced players.

 

[twiki]

A new domaining friendly registrar is always welcome And, in fact, needed. Really needed. Who are sav.com ? I mean from inside point of view (management, team, history...). NameKing if I am not mistaken has or had some connections with an old DomainSponsor - which at least means that they are or were experienced players.

Not sure if their intent was to target domainers, but rather to get momentum via heavy discount.

Their backorder offer is very good though, so... maybe they do. Think they make some money on auctions.

 

[Grilled]

One more negative, their UI is pretty bare bone. Really only nameserver access. No URL redirects or what not. Which is fine, as there are workarounds, such as setting EPIK nameservers for free URL redirects.

An example of their domain management UI:

 

[Croissant]

@Silentptnr thanks a million

 

[Grilled]

you trust pay non-Paypal?

That is kinda a short sighted question.

Basically asking, do I trust my bank or credit card issuing company?

A better question would be about their services.

Do you trust a PayPal backorder service where you pay $8.50 up front for a domain, when a service that charges $5.95 via credit/debit upon delivery beats your $8.50 backorder?

e.g. It's not a matter of trust. It's a cold blooded heartless calculated decision to be first to the domain. As long as you can transfer out, the first priority is ensuring you obtain the domain first, and secondly (if registering in bulk with shallow pockets) at the best price possible. Obviously, a $10+ dropcatch backorder will beat your Sav.com or most other < $10 back order 99% of the time.

However, if a company were to start sharing expired auction proceeds with the registrant, and in theory, a registrant can make their money back +extra via expired domain proceeds, without having to pay extra to transfer out, that profit sharing registrar would perhaps supersede the risk of outbackordering your own backorder for a higher price, with hopes of or a sense of a backed or hedged initial investment (as an underlying last resort fail-safe).

 

[tcpipnet]

THX a lot for sharing a money saver. Would take advantage over it.

 

[Recons.Com]

Are they in fast transfer network?

 

[Grilled]

Are they in fast transfer network?

Not sure the exacts on that.

But they do sell "partner premium domains"...

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and comparing the sale price for ExampleTest.com on Sav VS GoDaddy VS HugeDomains... it appears to be cheaper to checkout at Sav.

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Checking the WHOIS, or better yet, following the URL and typing in ExampleTest.com

 

[twiki]

Are they in fast transfer network?

Afternic, they are not.

SedoMLS, yes. (corrected)

 

[Recons.Com]

Afternic, they are not.

SedoMLS, yes. (corrected)

Yeah, that for me is a deal breaker. Afternic fast transfer is able to add 0.5%-1% sell through without landers. Losing that cannot be justified by saving couple of bucks on reg.

 

[vast]

Have just tried this registrar. Looks nice so far - easy sign up, neat uncluttered interface, adequate .com renewal price. Would be nice to see it getting more traction further and their rep joining to NamePros community. Thanks for sharing!

 

[osorosso]

is this price valid for transfers?

 

[Samer]

Sav.com owner is Emerge Media inc.

EmergeMedia.com is offline.

Domaintools says EmergeMedia.com reg’d with GD

 

[Windoms]

You can sell domains there too, the landers are a sharp and precise 100% copies of DAN, I notified @DAN.COM long ago.
That cheap .com registration was already there in september when people were going crazy over epik's 6.99$ 300 likes.

 

[golan]

I got one backorder there about a month ago. But only one so far.

 

[Daniel Owens]

If a domain is not worth paying $8.47 to renew or to transfer then it probably shouldn't be transfered, renewed or hand-reg even if you can at $6

They dont accept Paypal (always a catch)

But ur right, their $5.99 Registration trump's even Name.com $6.99 .com reg promo

 

[ksusha64]

Sounds like a great deal

 

[Nick R]

Hello Everyone! Nick from the Sav team here. We appreciate all the great feedback in this thread and look forward to be an active participant on namePros moving forward. Let me see if I can add some clarity to a few points in this thread:

Payment Methods:
We currently work credit card processor called Braintree which is actually owned by PayPal. We use their Drop-In credit card integration which means your card details are sent directly to Braintree and never once hit our own servers. Because your card is tokenized and securely stored at Braintree, we are able to automatically process payments for your won auctions and caught backorders without having to ask for an authorization every time like we would with PayPal. Expanding our payment methods is something this is on our roadmap though.

NameKing:
We did acquire the NameKing ICANN accreditation about a year ago and have been working to re-brand it as Sav. We will continue to add new features and expand the number of TLDs we offer.

URL Redirects & DNS:
We just launched this feature a few hours ago! You can now set free redirects and free DNS from your Sav.com account by going to the domain’s settings page.

 

[Samer]

NameKing: We did acquire the NameKing ICANN accreditation about a year ago and have been working to re-brand it as Sav. We will continue to add new features and expand the number of TLDs we offer.

i knew it! Finally! thank you,

Tell Anthos, guy who led NameKing acquisition is worth weight in gold (still dont know how u guys kept in wraps this day and age.) honestly i dont even care price, finally! you admitted to acquiring them! thanks again

Happy Holidays, SavSquad (catchy)
thanks again for joining the forum, hope isnt cameo.

Samer

 

[Grilled]

URL Redirects & DNS:
We just launched this feature a few hours ago! You can now set free redirects and free DNS from your Sav.com account by going to the domain’s settings page.

Before:

After:

Manage DNS: