Hi all,

I now offer domain service and my price is $9.95/year for a new domain. I actually don't make any profit with this service, just think if a customer buys a domain he/she may want to try my hosting service. I look around and I see the popular price others are selling is $15 to $25. I don't really want to raise up my price but wonder how can one profit from domain thing?

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Originally posted by enter
Hi all,

I now offer domain service and my price is $9.95/year for a new domain. I actually don't make any profit with this service, just think if a customer buys a domain he/she may want to try my hosting service. I look around and I see the popular price others are selling is $15 to $25. I don't really want to raise up my price but wonder how can one profit from domain thing?


first off...might want to add your signature to your profile before it gets egged ;)

second, you're right, when you offer domains so cheap there really isn't a huge margin. The only way companies that are sub 10 make money is volume and add-ons.

Generally speaking, any company that is charging $15 or more for domains is making more off of domains and advertising domains more. Companies that are less than $15 are making little or nothing off of domains and are advertising heavy on add-ons, like hosting, e-mail forwarding etc. A perfect example of the latter would be Godaddy

As you focus on hosting business, I suggest that you should keep current price or even lower it (for hosting customers only). You know you cannot compete with Godaddy or Dotster and the profit from selling domains is small compared with hosting profit. So lowering domain price can help you get more customers, that's my opinion. Hope it helps

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