Find a name, and see what year two costs before you buy it.

Registries set a wholesale price for each year of a domain. For several extensions they discount the first year heavily to win the registration, then charge the standard rate from year two onward. We pass both through rather than hiding the second number.

.shop is a plain example: $1.49 to register, $40.99 a year after that. .com barely moves: $13.49 then $13.49. Pick with the second number in mind. The cheap-domain page ranks every extension by what three years actually cost.

Unlock the domain at your current registrar, ask them for the authorisation code, then start the transfer here and pay the transfer price for that extension. The transfer adds a full year to whatever time is already on the domain, so you do not lose the remainder.

Registry rules mean a domain cannot be transferred within 60 days of being registered or of its last transfer. Nothing we can do about that one.

Yes, on every extension marked free in the table — at registration and at every renewal. Privacy replaces your name, address, phone number and email in the public record with a relay that still forwards genuine legal correspondence.

A few registries publish registrant details as a matter of policy and do not permit it. Where that is the case we label the extension plainly in the search results rather than sell you something that cannot be applied.

The domain stops resolving on the expiry date. For roughly 30 days after that you can renew it at the normal renewal price — nothing extra, no penalty.

After that grace period, most registries move the domain into redemption for another 30 days. Recovering it then costs the registry redemption fee on top of the renewal, which is substantially more than the renewal alone. We quote the exact figure before charging anything. Once redemption ends, the domain is released and anyone can register it.