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domain renewal price comparison.
Enter a domain or just a TLD and see what every registrar we track charges to renew it — sorted cheapest first. Not the first-year offer: the price you pay every year after that.
the number that actually costs you money
Domain pricing is built around a single trick: the first year is a promotion and the renewal is the real price. It works because you pick a registrar once, on the day the first-year figure is the only one in front of you, and then pay the renewal every year for a decade without ever comparing it again.
Across the 70 TLDs and 18 registrars in our catalog, the gap between the cheapest and dearest renewal for the identical domain is routinely more than double. That is not a difference in service — it is the same registry record, billed by a different company.
browse instead of searching
If you would rather see a whole table than check one domain, every TLD has its own page: .com renewal prices, .io, .ai, or the full index. You can also look at it from the registrar side — which registrars mark up the most, and by how much.
before you move anything
A transfer costs one year’s renewal at the new registrar, and that year is added to your existing expiry rather than replacing it — so the real cost of moving is the price difference, not the whole year. What it does cost is a bit of admin: unlocking the domain, getting the auth code, waiting up to a week.
Worth doing on a portfolio; rarely worth doing for one domain with a small gap. That trade-off is the whole of renewal arbitrage.
questions people actually ask.
Why compare renewal prices rather than registration prices?
Registration price is a one-off promotion; renewal price is what you pay every year afterwards. Registrars discount the first year to win the sale and recover it on renewals, so the cheapest place to register is frequently among the dearest places to keep a domain long term.
How can the same domain cost different amounts at different registrars?
The registry sets one wholesale price and every registrar pays exactly the same for it. What differs is the retail markup on top. Some registrars run domains close to cost as a way to sell you other things; others treat renewals as a profit centre. The domain itself is identical.
Is the cheapest registrar always the right choice?
No. Price matters most across a portfolio, where a few pounds per domain per year compounds. For a single domain your business depends on, transfer friction, DNS reliability, whether WHOIS privacy is included and how fast support answers are worth more than the difference.
How current are these prices?
Every price surface on the site shows when its data was last verified. Some registrars publish machine-readable pricing that we poll on a schedule; most do not, and those figures are compiled by hand and marked as seed data. The methodology page sets out exactly which is which.
Do prices include VAT?
Not consistently — registrars differ, and several UK and European registrars quote before VAT. Prices are also converted to pounds from the registrar's own currency. Treat the absolute figure as indicative and the gap between registrars as the reliable number, since that survives both conversion and tax.
// stop checking one at a time
one domain at a time is the slow way.
Owndle imports your whole portfolio, prices every domain against this catalog automatically, and shows the total you are leaving on the table — then alerts you before each renewal so you can act on it in time. Free for ten domains.
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All five tools are free and need no account. They run on the same data as the product: registry records over RDAP and our cross-registrar price catalog. How we source it is written up in the methodology.