Domain Registration - How to Register a Domain with the Best Price

The first thing about domain registration is to select a best domain name for your site, you can refer to Select the Best Domain Name to know more about it. And in below, we will talk about how to register domain with the lowest price.

What Impact Your Domain Registration Price

You might see that different domain registrar will charge you differently when registering a domain. What the secret behind it, I think below are the some factors will contribute to this.

• Domain Extension

The price of domain is varied based on the domain extensions you register. For domain extension like .com, .net, it will cost you only about $9 each year, but for "mobi" domain extension, you might have to pay out $20 per year.

For some country level domains, such as '.co.uk', if you register a domain through a UK company, such as 1&1 UK, the price will be low to $5/year. But for a US domain registrar, they might want you to pay close to $10/year. The reason behind this is that '.co.uk' domain are managed in UK, and a US company when providing this service, the transaction has to go through UK domain organization, and some extra fee happens.

• Additional Service Included in Domain Registration

When registering domain, you will always be asked about the option for "Domain Privacy Protect", this option will allow you to choose not to open your register information so that people won't find who own the web site via whois. In most cases, I would like to recommend this option for individual, but for the company, it doesn't make sense to hide the register information since you want more people to know who own this site.

• Domain Registrar

Besides the domain extension, the domain register company from different company will ask for different register fee for the country level domain extension. Such as, you will get a low price as ?1.99 from 1&1 UK (which is a UK company) for domain extension "co.uk" (UK country level domain extension), and a USA company might require more for this domain extension.

Where to Register Cheap Domain

So, based on above discussion, you will know that purchasing right domain from the right domain registrar is the key to determine the domain registration cost. In below, we will list out the most reputed domain registrar in the industry, and the domain extensions they have price advantage.

Don't Forget to Renew it

Although you just pay quite small money to get a domain, all your marketing effort for your online business are related to it. So, don't forget to renew your domain name timely, otherwise, your domain registar will sell it to someone else. If you don't know how to renew it, send an email to them and ask for the help.