I’ve spent a while migrating all of our non-.uk domain names to Google Domains – only for Google to announce that as of September 7th 2023 they are stopping all new domain registrations and moving the public domain registrations over to Squarespace (Google domains managed 9 years before being killed by Google).
We were paying £10/year for .com (and .net and .dev) domain name purchases/renewals with Google – but what are the “current market prices”?
(I was starting to migrate domains over to WordPress (mainly for the free year of renewal), but finding out that they don’t support DNSSEC and that there isn’t an ETA for its implementation means I might have to look elsewhere.)
| Domain provider | .com price (one year) | Notes | Thanks to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | £7.47 | Price converted from $9.15 USD. Does support DNSEC. Domains must use Cloudflare’s authoritative DNS provider. | |
| WordPress | £10.00 | Currently offering free transfer+1 year renewal for domains currently with Google Domains. Does not support DNSSEC. | |
| ResellerClub | £10.44 | Price converted from $12.79. Available to resellers only. | |
| Amazon Route 53 | £10.63 | Price converted from $13.00 | |
| ClouDNS | £10.93 | Price converted from $13.39 USD. Does support DNSSEC. | |
| Dynadot | £10.99 | ||
| OpenSRS | £11.23 | Price converted from $13.75 USD. Available to resellers only. | |
| Namecheap | £11.40 | New customer pricing of £4.87. | Neil Turner via Mastodon |
| DNSimple | £11.86 | Price converted from $14.50 USD. Requires a free subscription. Does support DNSSEC. | |
| Shopify | £12.28 | Price converted from $15.00 USD. Might be limited to using Shopify’s platform. | |
| 20i | £12.49 | Does support DNSSEC. Reseller pricing £10.49 (reseller package costs £47.99/month) | |
| OpenProvider | £12.76 | Price converted from $15.58 USD. Members pricing £8.00 (membership costs $49.99/year) | |
| OVHCloud | £12.95 | First year registration: £10.19 Does support DNSSEC | |
| Hetzner | £13.55 | Price converted from €15.60 EUR. | |
| Hover | £14.73 | Price converted from $17.99 USD First year registration £13.10. | |
| EasyDNS | £15.51 | Price converted from $19.00 USD. | |
| Squarespace | £16.00 | New provider for Google Domains customers. First year registration £9.60 | |
| Hostgator | £16.37 | Price converted from $19.99 USD First year registration £10.61. | |
| Joker | £16.62 | ||
| HeartInternet | £16.78 | Advertised prices exclude VAT. First year registration £11.98 | |
| Mythic Beasts | £17.40 | Advertised prices exclude VAT. Does support DNSSEC. | Jonathan Matthews via Mastodon |
| Bluehost | £18.00 | Price converted from $21.99. First year registration £10.91 | |
| Ionos | £18.00 | First year registration £1.20. | Howard Cheng via Mastodon |
| Domain.com | £18.00 | Price converted from $21.99. | |
| Network Solutions | £20.48 | Price converted from $25. I brought my first domain from them in 1998 – NS has been sold 4 times since! | |
| Easily | £20.89 | Advertised prices exclude VAT | |
| 123-Reg | £20.38 | Advertised prices exclude VAT. First year registration £5.99 | |
| GoDaddy | £21.56 | Advertised prices exclude VAT. First year registration £10.78. | |
| Glauca | £22.65 | ||
| Namesco | £23.98 | Advertised prices exclude VAT. First year registration £11.98 | |
| Gandi | £23.99 | First year registration £16.54. | Philip John via Mastodon |
Disclaimer:
Prices shown in £ GBP/Pound Sterling and are based on publicly available “single year renewal” prices at the date I added them to the table (with any different registration pricing noted).
Where possible, all prices include UK VAT/Tax and have been converted from any other currencies to GBP using Xe.com where the site itself did not provide currency conversion.
I can’t be held responsible for any errors, omissions, out of date information etc etc – I did my best! 😀
Edited 25th September 2023:
- Add “Thanks” to people who reminded me of certain registries
- Added Ionos, Mythic Beasts, DNSimple, Amazon Route 53, Easily, Hetzner, Network Solutions, Shopfiy, Domain.com, OVHCloud, Glauca, Joker, Hostgator, OpenProvider, Dynadot and Hover.
- Added note of DNSSec support and reseller pricing to 20i
- Corrected ordering placement of Heartinternet
- Clarified Disclaimer.