Guides on choosing domains, hosting and VPS, plus notes on the renewal prices that promo pages tend to leave out.
Onamae.com sells first-year domains for 1 yen and MuuMuu Domain sells .com for 750 yen. The renewal is where the money goes: 2,002 to 5,040 yen a year at Onamae and 1,728 yen at MuuMuu, plus a 10 to 20 percent surcharge at checkout.
Read articleNames.co.uk is giving away .co.uk domains free for the first year. The renewal is £27.59 a year (about $36.97), which makes the three-year cost higher than buying the same name at Porkbun for $5.66 a year flat.
indo.domains sold .my.id, .web.id and .biz.id for as little as Rp200 in its launch week, with the price rising every day. No expiry date was ever published, the promo has since vanished from the site, and the renewal price is still an open question.
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