I got a call a few weeks ago from a friendly rep at GoDaddy who, according to him, was just checking up on whether or not I was happy with GoDaddy’s services. Since I don’t use them for anything but domain registrations, it’s difficult to find much to complain about so I told him I had no complaints.
He had my account open on his end and ‘noticed’ that I had over 50 domains registered with them. I am pretty sure this is what the call was actually about and he proceeded to attempt to sell me a membership to their ‘Discount Domain Club’ for $89.99 a year. I went immediately on the defensive because I’m not really too keen on random calls from people trying to sell me things, but as he explained the offer, it started to make complete sense.
For an $89.99 yearly membership fee I get to register and renew all of my .com domains for $7.29 per year rather than the usual price of $10.69. At the moment I have 59 domain names so to renew them per year it would have cost me $630.71 at the regular price and $430.11 at the discount club price. Taking the $89.99 fee into consideration I will have saved $110.61.
Not to sound like a sales rep for the program, but it also gives discounts on other types of domains. New .info domains can be had for $0.89 (for the first year only), .net are 53% off at $5.99 a year and country-specific domains even have small discounts of 10-15%. But wait, there’s more! If you join the program for three years or longer you will save 20%, bringing the yearly fee down to $71.99 and you will get a second set of knives for free!
If you are someone who either already has a lot of domains or plans to at some point soon, do the calculations and see if GoDaddy’s Discount Domain Club will help save you some cash. As a domain hoarder, I wish I would have known about it sooner so I’m just spreading the word to any folks out there who want in on some cheaper domain name action.
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