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Competing registrars already offer a lower price.  Even if you can't for the regular consumer couldn't a deal be worked out with those with more names?  It would give them a better incentive to renew and you'd probably make back the money in quantity. I know that after verisign/cc and icann take the dues theres not much left but hey its all about numbers.

I'd tried GoDaddy and found that, while they claim to accept Paypal, they've configured it in such a way (recurring billing) that it's pretty much unusable without a credit card.

Um, doesn't that defeat the whole point of offering Paypal?

They have a so-called cash discount plan, which they market under the "GoodAsGold" name. They say that they will accept payment by mail or by bank wire, with a 2% discount. The minor detail: they bury a $20 service charge for accepting the bank transfer - it's hiding in the small print somewhere.

End result: for under-$1000 transactions their so-called "cash discount" actually costs you more... often much more.

They hide behind many "reseller" sites, but the interface is the same and the limitations unchanged. No value added there.

I'm stuck with them for one .ws domain that I can't transfer (a limitation of .ws itself) but no, I wouldn't choose to deal with them again if it were a $1 price difference. YMMV. HTH. LOL.

Dynadot is more than fair on it's pricing, they have a easy interface to work with and they don't bombard you with useless spam like others. I have had Internet sites online since 1995 and trust me, have been with the worst. Not to mention it used to cost MUCH more back in the bad old days.

Dynadot does their job and stays out of your way, that's my idea of a good company.

> $6.00 goes to Verisign, the central registry

For all practical purposes, I wished Verisign would eat $#!+ and die.  After reaping a virtual goldmine as the biggesst Internet monopoly ever created, they are still ripping consumers off by getting paid money for nothing.  I left Verisign  10 years ago and they still have their hand in my pocket.

As far as Dynadot and other domain registrars, I also wished GoDaddy would go belly up.  I originally went to GoDaddy because of price and ended up leaving and coming to Dynadot over service and the being COMPLETELY SICK of GoDaddy's constand "in-your-face" perpetual sales machine.  You can't even go to GoDaddy and register a domain name without having to endure their constant non-stop salesmanship, asking you to register this, register that, sign up for this, sign up for that, order this, please add that, sign up for this too, for CRYING OUT LOUD!  If I wanted all that other crap I would have asked for it.  It's like a hundred salesmen seeing you cash your check and all of them tripping over each other trying to get every last cent of your money before one of the others lets you get away.

Jesus!  I HATE GoDaddy and those other sales-shark companies.  Please, DynaDot -- don't change!!!

I like DynaDot because it has a nice easy user interface. DynaDot compared to GoDaddy there is no question. GoDaddy is constantly throwing spam in your face and making things as complicated as possible. I JUST WANT A DOMAIN!

DynaDot you just click and go, no Bla bla bla on the side.

DynaDot's prices are perfect. They pay their fee's as any business and they take their profits. We all have to make money somehow.

The prices are not horrible or exactly "cheap". They are cheap enough for me to be able to resell domains through my account.

:) Keep it up DynaDot!

We do pay a lot of credit card fees. Your idea is worth considering. I will add it to our feature request list.

For me the Price is OK.

Anyone has the option of bulk pricing.
And the registrars that use the 6.95 pricing are using a lot of upsales, which makes me so angry...

In my opinion, you should consider lower prices for people paying by means not including credit-card fees (wire, check or MoneyBookers). That way you and domainers (not credit card companies) will make money :)


[This post has been edited by s_v_chisinau_md on Apr 15, 2007 1:40am.]

Credit cards (and Paypal) charge per transaction. There is a transaction fee, then a percentage of the amount on top of that.

We are considering giving even further discounts to customers that prepay large amounts, or group their orders together. Lots of little orders does push up our transaction fees from the credit card company or Paypal. But this won't be for a while because we are working on some other projects right now.

We may also be able to give a discount to customers that prepay a large amount by check, or echeck, because there are no transaction fees to us for these payment methods. Once again this won't be for a while unfortunately.

I will ask about reducing our bulk NET prices.


[This post has been edited by dynadot_staff on Mar 16, 2007 5:47pm.]

Dynadot staff:

I like how you have explained your pricing, but what about the other TLDs? How can some registrars (who do not sell webhosting) offer $4.75 .net registrations?

Is that $.25 credit card fee a percentage, or is there a per-transaction fee in addition to the percentage? The reason I ask is because bulk buyers like me would be willing to find alternate payment methods to save that $.25 on thousands of domains. Whether that means writing a check twice a year (pre-funding) or grouping our domain renewals into batches of 100, 500, or 1000.

Price is not a major concern, it is THE MOST important concern for bulk buyers like me. But don't worry, I wouldn't switch to 1and1 even if they DID support IDNs :-)

P.S. If you're in Foster City, I would be happy to buy a round of beers to show my appreciation for your cool site :-)


[This post has been edited by n_n_henderson_us on Mar 15, 2007 1:58pm.]

Couple hundred here, and I still opted to pay the extra dollar to stick with them. Bulk Pricing will keep me here for a while.

I have 37 domains and 0 problems with dynadot :D