Are this is may be real? I am never seem this prices on the any official and wellknown registrar. Whats' you think - can this may be real?

@ $ 6.95

http://www.hostway.com/

Seems like they are selling domain names as a loss leader trying to attract more hosting clients or other more porfitable business

ive seen 6.49 bulk pricing i think. thats if your buying 1000 domains or so though. maybe more...

https://secure02.gkg-com.com/domain/alliances/partner.html

They offer domains for $6.50 each if you buy 5000+ or more per year. This is a reseller account. You need to prepay though :/

Originally posted by HostFolks
Seems like they are selling domain names as a loss leader trying to attract more hosting clients or other more porfitable business


Why?

They are making 50 cents.

If/when I have a registrar I would offer them to end users @ 6.15-6.80


It depends on extension too,

.us/co.uk and a few others can be sold for much cheaper.

.us costs $2.50 to a registrar, I believe.

Originally posted by DevilDude
They are making 50 cents.

If/when I have a registrar I would offer them to end users @ 6.15-6.80
It actually costs MORE THAN $6 for a registrar to register a single .com or .net. ;)

DevilDude, if you find a merchant account that allows you such low fees please share which company it is with us all.

merchant account?


Did I say anything about that?

NameSlave,


What do you meen?

Do they have to prepay in volume?

Thanks

lol @ $6.15. Good luck with that.

Originally posted by StarGhost
lol @ $6.15. Good luck with that.


What is wrong with that?

I dont see anythign wrong with it.

Originally posted by DevilDude
NameSlave,

What do you meen?

Do they have to prepay in volume?
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-financials.htm

As a registrar, you'll have to factor in OTHER costs to ICANN and various registries, not to mention those related to running your operation, including e.g. merchant account fees (you probably accept credit cards, right?), rents, salaries, taxes, etc.

So anything NEAR $6.15 is probably a loss.

.us for $2.50? always tought it was the same fee as biz/info

I would like to see $6.15 at pricing page in my account with eNom.com:)))

hehe
never more :)))

BTW: i saw http://www.directi.com/. they offer very low prices. but i am not sure in their services.

Directi is $12.99 or are you talking about reseller accounts.

Yep, you can get @ $6.49 from Directi, but you have to pre-pay 500 domains.

Their fees are lower than eNom's, and IMHO, Directi's control panel is more clear, faster and powerful than eNom' control panel.

Of course, eNom is one of the best accredited registrars out there ;)

Greetings,

Eboy
_______________

I am aware of teh fees of getting acredited, and once you are set up and done. I am quite cetain would cost above $500,000. But, I still think I could do it @ a price under $6.50.

Just wait :)

We have no frills airlines and hotels.

Why not a no frills registrar?

PS: by "we" I didnt meen I owned an airline.

lol

Originally posted by DevilDude
PS: by "we" I didnt meen I owned an airline.

lol

:D

I thought it was funny...

Originally posted by DevilDude
I am aware of teh fees of getting acredited, and once you are set up and done. I am quite cetain would cost above $500,000. But, I still think I could do it @ a price under $6.50.

Just wait :)

We have no frills airlines and hotels.

Why not a no frills registrar?

Well, lets take areally good low percentage CC processing co giving you 2% for Internet sales based on no track recordso that adds about 12 cents per name. Then there is the itnerest on the $$ you borrowed to become a registrarat say 7% and then the hardware/software. We'll say you run it out of your house so your taking a write off there. You are also running it yourself so no employees. You would have to sell a $hitload of domains making less than 25 cents a piece to even come close to covering your overhead.

You may need to addsome frills like email and charge for url forwarding etc. then you could hire some employees. Hook up and rent your connection to ult or BD and actually youmight be able to make a small profit!:D

A new game...Registrar Sims for xbox or the pc!

Try reg2c.com. It is dotregistar reseller offers $7.45/year domains. But customer needs to buy 10 or moredomain credits.

Regards
D.

I am part of canadian RCC.

RCC members who have merch accounts @ scotiabank dont pay a discount rate on CC transactions.

:)

But yes, your right, it would be tight, but i think its doable.

Originally posted by DevilDude
I am part of canadian RCC.

RCC members who have merch accounts @ scotiabank dont pay a discount rate on CC transactions.

:)

But yes, your right, it would be tight, but i think its doable.

Personally I would think it is financial suicide, but hey! its your money

Even in the above examples there is no consideration of purchasing fixed assets, depreciation, marketing, bandwidth/hosting costs, legal plus a whole host ( no pun intended) or other issues.

I will stick to making $20 a domain profit thanks :D

Originally posted by Vladimir S.
I would like to see $6.15 at pricing page in my account with eNom.com:)))
So would I, but 6.95 would do for now.

Personally I would think it is financial suicide, but hey! its your money
Even in the above examples there is no consideration of purchasing fixed assets, depreciation, marketing, bandwidth/hosting costs, legal plus a whole host ( no pun intended) or other issues.

I will stick to making $20 a domain profit thanks


Many companies sell items and loss money.

SafeWay (for example) losses an average of $4 for every DVD tehy sell.

In this case, maybe you could break even, loss a few cents or make a few cents on each reg, but all registrars (almost) offer other services. Enom offers (most of) them for free though.

In all my businesses, I like to offer the customers a very low price while making a few $.

$20/domain profit is disgusting, imo. Are you trying to be NSI?

I charge $8.95 per domain, and this month my enom commissions are $643.30.

That is several $1000s in domains sold..

I am not sure about your commissions, but I htink it pays off offering low prices. I did no advertising btw.

Just a thugh.

JMHO

Originally posted by DevilDude
So would I, but 6.95 would do for now.



Many companies sell items and loss money.

SafeWay (for example) losses an average of $4 for every DVD tehy sell.

In this case, maybe you could break even, loss a few cents or make a few cents on each reg, but all registrars (almost) offer other services. Enom offers (most of) them for free though.

In all my businesses, I like to offer the customers a very low price while making a few $.

$20/domain profit is disgusting, imo. Are you trying to be NSI?

I charge $8.95 per domain, and this month my enom commissions are $643.30.

That is several $1000s in domains sold..

I am not sure about your commissions, but I htink it pays off offering low prices. I did no advertising btw.

Just a thugh.

JMHO

So in one hand you protect the right of Safeway to run their business anyway they seem fit and the ability to give away domains in another but you find that because I choose to run my business at a profit it is "disgusting" seems like double standards to me.

I have around 4000 domains on my books and each and every one of the owners can call me and discuss any feature, if they forget to renew they will be telephoned until I receive a reply as to whether they wish to keep it or not, they can ask my advice, I will personally look and suggest domain names for them, I will snap names for them and assist in disputes. That is my chosen business model, I have no wish to join the I will make 2 cents on this and loose 1 cent on this type business, and I have been in business for 22 years.

I have been around since 1996, last year my profit on domains exceeded $90,000 so please tell me why I should increase my customer base by 1000% to achieve the same result?
I lost 3 domains to transfer outs last year and most of my customers have been retained for years.

Incidently I do no advertising either and gain around 10-20 clients a month purely through word of mouth.

Old saying " there is more than one way to skin a cat"

You do it your way and I will do it mine ;)