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Ask HN: Which is the cheapest TLD for 10 years?

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Which is the cheapest TLD, to purchase for 5/10 years period. Personal use only. Namecheap is giving some TLDs at $27 for 5 years. Need to know if I can get some domain for ~10 years for a lower price.

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Out of interest, is it the absolute amount of coin, or your desire to drive a bargain? because $27 is $5 per year, which I estimate you will afford by digging around the sofa for loose change.

You don't need to know this. You want to know this. You will spend more money in opportunity cost finding out.

I guess that depends on how many you want to buy. I can't come up with a reason why one would buy many domains with an obscure TLD, especially for private use but that doesn't mean that there isn't one.

In the USA perhaps.

OP is from India, where median wage is ~$2 a day.

Saving $5 would equate to 2.5 days effort per domain.

I'm from Namecheap. .PW is $78.80 for 10 years. .UK is $56.90 for 10 years. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...

https://internetbs.net currently has .feedback domains for $1.49/year ($14.90 for 10 years)

Namecheap and others have sales on tlds from time to time. There are sites that will aggregate the prices and tlds https://tld-list.com/ is one. I know the last domains I bought were only a couple of dollars for 5 years.

get an onion address its FREE (and no renewals), and great for personal use. I put a comment with more details but it was blocked so I'm trying to avoid keywords here. I'm running a gitlab and a sftp server on an old laptop at home (no server fees) which I can access anywhere in the world without dealing with static ip's or changing router settings.

Keep an eye on Porkbun - I got a .party for 10 years for about $8 back along - a bargain!

.ovh is 1.2€ (first year) + 3.6€/year (renewal price), so about $42/decade.

Interesting. I'm curious how that TLD was conceived. Surely it's for the host, right?

If I remember right it started out as a gag before the new gTLDs were a thing, and they then decided it'd be good marketing to make it real.

.trade domains are super cheap. I think i paid $8 for 5 years.

dot.tk has a melange of different free domains.

Hard to beat free.

If it's still available in 10 years is the other question though.

FWIW, it has lasted more than 10 years already - I remember people getting .tk domains when I was at school.

It's a country tld, those tend to stay around.

I know, but there are still countries that stop offering them for free, keep them online or start charging.

It's the TLD of the archipelago of Tokelau. They have a population of 1.400, their energy company provides 24-hour electricity "on special occasions", and they outsourced the TLD to a company I'd be ashamed to call a professional registrar. So country is a little guarantee.

Eh, seems to be basically an autonomous region of New Zealand, much like Gibraltar is of the UK. I'd bet it's pretty stable.

IIRC that TLD well known for hijacking domains after they become popular.

That's fair: it is (at least, it was last time I checked) clearly stated that free domains are merely "lended" and you have no sort of right on that domain.

OTOH, you have full rights on domains you buy.

I paid ~100$ for a .eu for 10 years recently, so I don't consider that the cheapest option.

I paid my .tk ~60€ for 9 years. Renewed until 2024.

xyz usually has some good deals.

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