Ask the 10-year question before you register a .com

One thing is easy to overlook when registering a domain: the price you see today is not the price you will pay tomorrow.

A registrar might advertise a .com for $9.99 for the first year. If the renewal price is $18–20/year, the long-term cost is a different story entirely.

The math

DohoHub tracks .com pricing across 16 registrars, with the first-year price and the renewal price side by side. The long run is one step further: registration plus nine renewals.

• Hostinger — $0.01 first year, $19.99 renewal → $179.92 over 10 years
• Namecheap — $11.28 first year, $18.48 renewal → $177.60
• DreamHost — $9.99 first year, $19.99 renewal → $189.90
• one.com — $7.99 first year, $26.99 renewal → $250.90
• Porkbun — $11.08 flat → $110.80
• Dynadot — $10.88 flat → $108.80 over 10 years

The cheapest first year ($0.01) costs $71.12 more over a decade than the cheapest long-term price. That gap is the promo tax — the difference between asking "where is .com cheapest today?" and "where will this domain cost me the least over the next 10 years?"

Both prices, for every registrar we track: dohohub.com/domains/com

Why we are running this one

Banner prices are marketing; renewal prices are the product. We show both on one page so the 10-year question takes ten seconds to answer.