How to Save Money on Domain Registrations

You can save a lot of money if you approach domain registration wisely. You might not consider a saving of $1 or $2 to be a lot. However, if you are registering in bulk, these $1 or $2 can quickly turn into $50 or $100, which is quite considerable.

Use Coupons

An excellent way to save money while registering domains, is to use coupon codes. I never register a domain without using a coupon code. A Godaddy or NameCheap registration generally costs around $10. However, if you use a coupon, this fee is reduced to $7 or $8.

I regularly post coupon codes at my blog. Alternatively, you can search for "domain coupons". Once you find a coupon code, proceed to your registrar's domain name registration page. During checkout, enter the coupon code you found for some excellent domain name registration savings.

Registrar Premium Memberships

Another excellent way to save money is to become a premium member of a registrar. By becoming a premium member of a registrar, you can purchase domains at a set discounted rate. You also receive other bonus benefits which vary depending on which registrar you use. Contact your favorite registrar for further information.

Shop Around
Don't settle for one registrar. People tend to get into a habit and continually register all their domain names at one registrar. Shop around!

You can make great savings by buying your domains at different registrars. Registrars regularly run holiday specials, and various other promotions during which you can get domains at great rates. Only recently Godaddy provided registration of all .info domains at an amazing rate of $0.99 per registration while most other registrars charged $7 or more.

Be careful though to limit your registrar count to a manageable 4 or 5. Many domainers have lost their domains to expiration by forgetting about the domains they had registered with obscure registrars.

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Here's a method that worked in the past and might still work at GoDaddy. Choose a domain name. Click through all the way to the final shopping cart screen (after you have applied all the discounts and coupons you have). But DO NOT BUY. After all the work you did, just abandon the shopping cart, period.

In a day or two or three Godaddy will send you an email asking you to complete the purchase. This email will usually offer an additional discount, maybe 20-30%. If you are still interested in buying, buy now.

GoDaddy used to offer discounts like this for .info domain so the final cost to you for an .info domain was less than $1. About a year ago they stopped this price policy. But if you follow my advice above you can still get .info domains for about $2.

Godaddy still offer discount codes which let you register domains for $1 , $3 and $5. Sometimes you get a free info domain along with the main domain. When you use a code you can always check this by adding one .info domain. If the total price is same thing check out if not remove the .info. :)