Why Enom so pricey?

[Chappy]

My domain is up for renewal at enom. How come they charge almost $30 for one year when registrars like GoDaddy (I know, its not the favorite out there) charge $6.99? Why should I keep my domain at enom?

Any opinions appreciated.

 

[Kate]

Get a reseller account... it's possible to have $7.95 pricing or so.
Regular pricing is obviously high. Only drawback you may have to prepay your reseller account by increments of $100 but I'm not sure.
Otherwise transfer but don't wait until the last day to do so.

 

[Chronos]

Move it out!

You can get the same and sometimes a plus with renewals at:

Dynadot $7.99
GoDaddy 6.95/7.95 + icann tax
or Registerfly with a promotion $5 transfer with the code FLY6PROMO for the next 24 hours or $5.89 regular price.

 

[rb]

The main enom.com website is setup to encourage people to buy through their resellers (which offer more regular pricing from $7 on up).

They don't want to "turn away" customers, so they just put the domain pricing at the main site at a very high retail price.

Did you originally register the domain at enom? If you bought it from someone else and you just created an enom account to get the name transferred to you, you can see if you can get a different enom account (either from the person selling you the name or from one of the many people here in the forum offering cheaper enom accounts...including through NamePros at $8.88 per year)

Once you create a new enom account at the cheaper price, you can just push the name to yourself from the expensive account to the cheaper account.

 

[Archangel]

The reason? Well, the general idea: If there's money to be made, money will be made. That's the business ethic most ppl have.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

The main enom.com website is setup to encourage people to buy through their resellers (which offer more regular pricing from $7 on up).

They don't want to "turn away" customers, so they just put the domain pricing at the main site at a very high retail price.

Did you originally register the domain at enom? If you bought it from someone else and you just created an enom account to get the name transferred to you, you can see if you can get a different enom account (either from the person selling you the name or from one of the many people here in the forum offering cheaper enom accounts...including through NamePros at $8.88 per year)

Once you create a new enom account at the cheaper price, you can just push the name to yourself from the expensive account to the cheaper account.

Perfect post; just wanted to highlite rb's thoughts. OP: rb got it right.

-Allan :gl:

 

[Chappy]

Thanks. Yes, I bought a name which was held at enom and had to create a new account there. I will look into getting a reseller account!

 

[peterstannard]

Move it to Namecheap.

 

[Mark]

http://www.namepros.com/enomsignup.php

:p

http://www.namepros.com/domainreg.php

 

[Chappy]

If I create a retail account through Namepros, can I transfer the domains into this account and renew them at $8.88?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

If I create a retail account through Namepros, can I transfer the domains into this account and renew them at $8.88?

Yup.
-Allan

 

[.X.]

So they can hold you at bay ...By making you deposit a min of $100 in your account...That assuring them they have just made a $100 no matter what happens..because once you deposit it....You have to use it there....Use NamePros as statments above.

 

[BurninDragon08]

I was wondering the same thing. Enom's prices are sky high!

 

[Archangel]

I get domains from enom -- pushed from other accounts -- and transfer them out. RegFly has $5 transfer sales weekly. It's not a good idea for bulk transfers (unless you have the cash) but for a few domains, it's worth it. Well, somewhat. RegFly kinda sucks at times.

 

[sonyking]

I think if its too much for you than i say transfer them to
godaddy or namecheap.They are good places.But if you
want cheap .info you can get them for $1.99 at domainsite.com.

 

[SpareDomains]

I'm not sure who gets the credit here, but usually when I have done domain transfers from another register into godaddy it takes like 4-7 days. I just transfered 6 names from godaddy into my new reseller at enom and it took 3 hours, so I have been very happy with enom so far and it's also nice to not get hammered with ads like at godaddy. I also like the high prices listed at enoms site as that shows they do not compete with their resellers, grab a godaddy reseller and you will be fighting godaddys prices with it especially with all the discount codes they throw out, kinda hard to resell for someone when they compete with their resellers, reason I have pulled most out and only have 9 left at godaddy.

 

[floatingworld]

I was wondering the same thing. Enom's prices are sky high!

enom and moniker are the luxury end of the market (and have their fans)
namecheap is respectable (has fans, including me) (uses enom) but is still considered $3 too expensive for some, who prefer to play in the
godaddy bargain basement (sometimes me also), and then there are the
bottom feeders such as 1+1, yahoo, and some others who snare the freebie crowd and then mess with their sanity........

 

[fonzie_007]

enom and moniker are the luxury end of the market (and have their fans)
namecheap is respectable (has fans, including me) (uses enom) but is still considered $3 too expensive for some, who prefer to play in the
godaddy bargain basement (sometimes me also), and then there are the
bottom feeders such as 1+1, yahoo, and some others who snare the freebie crowd and then mess with their sanity........

That is one of the best (and funniest) summations I have read. I'm the bargain basement guy--luckily not quite at the bottom feeder level...

 

[chimaera]

I'd rather pay the extra $3 and use Namecheap personally ...